KYIV, Dec 24 – A International Monetary Fund team needs more time than usually to check the pace of reforms in Ukraine as all meetings are currently held online due to COVID pandemic, an IMF official said.
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KYIV, Dec 24 – The International Monetary Fund is concerned with increasing delays in financial transactions in the energy sector as many companies report shortage of cash pointing at looming crisis.
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KYIV, Dec 23 – Energoatom opened its part of the open switchgear at Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), which is a part of the 750 kV overhead power transmission line "Zaporizhia NPP – Kakhovska substation" which is 186 km long.
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KYIV, Dec 24 – Ukrhydroenergo began start-up operations at the hydroelectric unit four of the Dnistrovska pumped storage power plant (PSPP) on December 22 and plans to complete the work on launching the unit in summer 2021, the company has said.
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KYIV, Dec 22 - Starting from March 2020, 18.8% of Ukrainian companies were forced to reduce salaries to their employees due to quarantine; 72.4% reported that quarantine did not affect their work, and therefore there was no revision of salaries, and 8.8% of companies, on the contrary, increased them this year.
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KYIV, Dec 22 – Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Economic Development Dmytro Kysylevsky calls on the government to responsibly negotiate with the EU within the framework of the Green Deal initiative.
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KYIV, Dec 22 - Philip Morris International (PMI) has filed a lawsuit for bilateral investment arbitration against the government of Ukraine in connection with the unfair, in their opinion, decision of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMCU) to fine them UAH 1.2 billion in the case of the wholesale distributor Tedis Ukraine, according to a press release from PMI.
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KYIV, Dec 22 – The operational headquarters of the Ministry of Health for vaccine-preventable infections has approved a plan for immunizing the population against COVID-19, according to which vaccination is planned to cover 50% of the population (20 million people) in 2021-2022.
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WASHINGTON, Dec 23 - The United States is preparing a set of new devastating sanctions that would permanently stop construction of Nord Stream 2 pipeline in the coming weeks, Reuters reported Wednesday citing senior Trump administration officials.
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KYIV, Dec 23 - Participation in the Clean Network program will help increase private sector investment in Ukraine, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment Keith Krach said.
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