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Donbas with a string of compromises that only bolster Zelenskiy position at home.
At the Paris meeting Putin agreed to more POW swaps, and just before the big New Year’s Day holiday. At the same time he agreed to a new gas transit deal atthe11t​h​hour,whichincludedthesurprisingconcessionthatGazpromwould pay the $2.9bn fine imposed on it by the Stockholm Arbitration court. Finally, during the Russian government shake up in January, Putin replaced his advisor, and an anti-west hawk, ​Andrei Belousov with Dmitri Kozak, Putin’s leading fix-it man in the Kremlin, who also happens to have been born in Ukraine.
Taken all together and progress towards some sort of deal between Russia and Ukraine looks possible now, although Putin is under no time pressure to reach an agreement while Zelenskiy is.
2.0​ ​Politics
2.1​ ​Ukraine to introduce “Investment nannies” to boost FDI
Any potential investor who invests more than $100mn in Ukraine, will get a personal "investment nanny" ​from the government, according to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who is at the Davos conference to talk up Ukraine’s investment case.
Net foreign direct investment (FDI) in Ukraine reached $2.2bn in January-September2019. Capital inflow amounted to $1.8bn, while the loans of direct investors increased $0.38bn. FDI inflows were highest from Cyprus ($476mn), the Netherlands ($279mn) and Russia ($196mn). The presence of Cyprus, the Netherlands and Russia among the most active investors in Ukraine implies that a significant share of FDI to Ukraine involves the
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