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Agribusiness in Ukraine – sponsored by Lactalis

Business Focus: Agribusiness in Ukraine

Business

$1 = Hr 27.7

Bloomberg: Crimea’s water crisis is an impossible problem for Putin

UkrInform: Head of Ukravtodor says domestic companies performed 80% of roads works last year

Interfax: Expert platform launched in Ukraine to help cities implement large infrastructure projects

Interfax: Ukraine imposes most severe sanctions against 19 subsoil companies from Golden Derrick caseInterfax: Ukraine’s NSDC imposes sanctions against two companies-owners of Donetskoblgaz

Interfax: Ukraine to audit all permits for subsoil use since 1994, return to people in case of conditions violation – NSDC Secretary

Interfax: Bees Airline to launch first scheduled flight by late April

Interfax: DTEK and Siemens, with government support, agree on 25 million euro hydrogen project in Mariupol

Interfax: Ukrtelecom posts Hr 643 million ($23 million) in net profit in 2020

Ukrinform: Merkel says Ukraine-Germany cooperation not limited to economy

Ukrinform: German business in Ukraine can be more active if reforms continue – Marco Wanderwit

Ukrinform: Ambassador says Ukraine interested in launch of FTA talks with Japan

Bloomberg: Ukraine central banker probed for embezzlement, prosecutors say

Cooperation with Germany is of special importance for Ukraine’s European integration – Volodymyr Zelensky

The Financial: The first private steel and mining University established in Ukraine

Business Wire

Lactalis in Ukraine: 25 years of sustainable development

Ukreximbank uses fullin array of financial tools to support agricultural business

Redcliffe Partners hires new partner Sergiy Ignatovsky to join its leading Litigation and Restructuring practices

Opinions

Editorial: Taxing Big Tobacco

Editorial: Going backwards

Illia Ponomarenko: Ukraine’s Friend & Foe of the Week

Ukrainian World Congress: 7 years of war. Putin’s big lie continues

Serhiy Sydorenko: Between occupation and annexationThomas Barrett: Ukraine should beware of the Georgian development model

Clara Ferreira Marques: Crimea’s water crisis is an impossible problem for Putin

David Axe: Ukraine is hardening its coastline against Russian attack

Robert Homans: Ukrainian President Zelensky’s oligarch speech

David Ignatius: Russia’s disinformation campaign will keep rolling

From the archives: How To Go Broke Owning Monopolies

Kyiv Post editorials rip Yanukovych administration for cancelling local elections, illegal formation of the parliamentary majority, the closing of KGB archives by security chief Valery Khoroshkovsky, removal of the Holodomor from the presidential website and more. Cover story: How oligarchs steal from Naftogaz, Ukrzalyznitsa, Ukrtelecom.

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