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According to the Ukrainian industry publication Enkorr , this deal was the first contract signed between the Ministry of Defence and the Privat group, that belongs to Kolomoisky and holds Ukrnafta’s shares, in the last 5 years, when the online ProZorro system was launched in 2015.
In the first high profile appointment of an ‘investment nanny,’ Ihor Zhovkva, deputy head of the President's Office has taken on the job of pushing forward the potentially $1bn iron mining project of Canada’s Black Iron ​in President Zelenskiy’s home city of Kryvyi Rih. “[This] formal role [was] created by Ukraine’s government to support foreign investors, to personally ensure all items requiring Ukraine government support to implement Black Iron’s project are addressed,” Black Iron CEO Matt Simpson writes from Toronto on the company website. In an interview posted Sunday on the site of Toronto’s Globe and Mail, President Zelenskiy calls for more Canadian foreign direct investment in Ukraine.
Police plan to increase the number of speed cameras 20-fold, from 50 today to 1,000 in 2022​. The system can handle 6,000 cameras, spelling the end to carefree speeding in Ukraine, Anton Gerashchenko, deputy internal affairs minister, tells Biz.Liga. The government wants to increase speeding fines 7-fold, to $130. Gerashchenko wants Ukraine to follow the lead of Finland and Switzerland, where fines are calculated as a percentage of the driver’s income. StartingJune 25 , police plan to crack down on running red lights and driving in bus lanes. Also starting July 1, Ukrainians will be criminal liable for drunk driving. Penalties will range from $640 to $1,280 and loss of license for three years.
Of Ukraine’s 24 regions, 14 do not meet conditions to ease their coronavirus restrictions​, according to the Health Ministry. They are: Volyn, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Zhytomyr, Zakarpattia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kyiv, Luhansk, Lviv, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Rivne, Ternopil, and Chernivtsi. Since March 13, 1,035 people in Ukraine have died of coronavirus complications.
The EU plans a gradual opening of its external borders starting July 1,
giving priority to countries with coronavirus infection rates lower than the EU’s, Interfax-Ukraine says, citing Ylva Johansson, a European Commissioner for Home Affairs. “From July 1, we will begin to gradually open borders with some countries,” she said. Referring to travel inside the EU, she added: “We are proposing countries to remove restrictions on internal borders from Monday.”
President Zelenskiy says Ukraine wants full membership in the EU. “​Eastern Partnership shouldn’t limit the ambitions of its partners,” he tweeted before the video mode summit meeting of heads of EU nations and Eastern Partnership states. Arguing that a common market is not enough, he wrote: “Ukraine seeks full membership in the EU.”
Five months after the shootdown of the UIA passenger jet over Tehran, Iran says it will send the black boxes to Ukraine, ​Iran’s Minister of Roads and Urban Development, Mohammad Eslami tells Tasnim, a news agency close to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The UIA flight was shot down Jan. 8 by an Iranian ground-to-air missile, killing 176 people in what Tehran later termed a “disastrous mistake” at a time of tensions with the US. Eslami said reading of the boxes will take place in coordination with the United Nations' International Civil Aviation Organization, Reuters reports.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy sacked yet another reform from his government in the first week of June ​as he continues what has become a major retreat from technocratic change and a return to the status quo. The
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