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Ukraine`s Mars Hopper wins NASA award
The Ukrainian MarsHopper aircraft project developed by a team from Kyiv won the People`s Choice award of NASA`s SpaceApps Challenge 2016, one of the world`s largest international annual hackathons, according to 2016.spaceappschallenge.org.The team learned of its victory on May 23 – three days before the official announcement of the results, but...
PGO chief: No politics in searches at Odesa region administration
Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko claims searches at Odesa regional administration`s building on Thursday have nothing to do with politics and were conducted as part of an investigation into illegal operations of value-added tax refunds by officials of Georgia`s Consulate General in 2012-2013, according to the press service of the Prosecutor...
NBU may lift ban on dividend repatriation subject to renewed cooperation with IMF
Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) Valeriya Gontareva says the regulator is planning to lift the ban on repatriation of dividends following the results of evaluation of their volumes and after cooperation with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is resumed.The NBU governor also assumed that the NBU would be ready this year to meet...
Large, medium-sized enterprises of Ukraine reduce loss by 6.6 times
Large and medium-sized enterprises of Ukraine, excluding budgetary institutions, according to preliminary data, received UAH 58.556 billion loss before tax in the first quarter of 2016, which is 6.6 times lower than the adjusted figure for the same period last year at UAH 385.935 billion, according to the State Statistics Service of Ukraine.In...
G7 leaders urge all sides to fulfill commitments for elections in Donbas
The leaders of the G7 have urged all sides to fulfill their commitments without delay with a view to holding local elections in certain areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions as soon as possible in accordance with the Minsk agreements, according to G7 Ise-Shima Leaders` Declaration.”We are concerned by continued violence along the line of...
Brexit threatens global economic growth – G7
The prospects of the United Kingdom exiting the European Union pose a serious threat to the growth of the world economy, according to the declaration of G7 leaders.”A UK exit from the EU would reverse the trend towards greater global trade and investment, and the jobs they create, and is a further serious risk to growth,” the declaration says.At...
Global growth is our urgent priority – G7
G7 leaders have expressed concern over the global economy and the political situations in North Korea and Russia. ||| Ise-Shima, Japan – The Group of Seven industrial powers pledged on Friday to seek strong global growth, while papering over differences on currencies and stimulus policies and expressing concern over North Korea, Russia and...
Ukraine Economy Ministry forecasts stable economic growth over next 3 yrs
The Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine forecasts a stable growth of the Ukrainian economy over the next three years and says it will do its best to enhance it.”Comparing with the last year, when our economy declined by almost 10%, this year we are expecting growth, a stable growth over the next three years,” First Deputy...
Militants fire grenade launchers on ATO forces near Avdiyivka, Opytne in last day
The combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 30 times in the past 24 hours, according to the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO).”At dusk, the militants actively fired heavy machine guns, grenade launchers and 82mm mortars on our positions near the town of Avdiyivka and the village of...
Japan PM Abe warns of large scale economic crisis – media
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe warned his Group of Seven counterparts of a crisis on the scale of Lehman Brothers, offering a potential justification to again delay an increase in the national sales tax, Reuters reported citing Nikei.Abe presented data at a Thursday session of the G7 summit he is hosting, showing that commodities prices have...