KYIV, Dec 18 – Despite the quarantine restrictions due to coronavirus (COVID-19) disease, Ukrainians actively bought household appliances and electronics this year at Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales, which led to a 28% increase in sales compared to last year and their new record of UAH 6.6 billion, as evidenced by research data from GfK Ukraine.
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KYIV, Dec 17 - Ukraine and the EU within the next two years will sign an agreement on the mutual recognition of Conformity Assessment and Acceptability of Industrial Products (ACAA, an "industrial visa-free" agreement), President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
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KYIV, Dec 17 – The task of each Ukrainian ambassador is to attract foreign direct investment to Ukraine, promote domestic exports and defend the interests of Ukrainian business abroad, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
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KYIV, Dec 17 - A number of investors in the renewable energy sector have already made internal decisions to go to international arbitration if the Constitutional Court of Ukraine recognizes feed-in tariffs on the submission of people's deputies as unconstitutional, lawyer Timur Bondarev, the managing partner of Arzinger law firm, representing the interests of the industry, has said.
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KYIV, Dec 17 – Ukraine called on the U.S. to support the country’s plan to join NATO so that Ukraine will become one of the U.S.’s key allies in the region, Olha Stefanishyna, the Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, said.
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KYIV, Dec 16 – Minister of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov held talks with Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Italy Luigi Di Maio following the ninth meeting of the Ukrainian-Italian Council for Economic, Industrial and Financial Cooperation, which took place online on December 16.
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KYIV, Dec 16 – Ukraine will seek to deepen its strategic cooperation with the U.S. in the defense sector in order to counteract on-going Russia’s aggression, Oleksiy Danilov, the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC), said.
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KYIV, Dec 17 – Ukraine faces a “debt tsunami” next year unless the government restarts reforms and resumes cooperation with the International Monetary Fund, Serhiy Verlanov, a former head of the State Tax Service, said.
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KYIV, Dec 17 – Ukraine will instruct its diplomats around the world to focus on helping to boost the country’s exports, as well as to ensure security and expand ties with Ukrainians living in other countries.
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KYIV, Dec 16 - One of Ukraine’s best known veteran politicians, Gennady Kernes, died in Germany in the early hours of Thursday from complications caused by the coronavirus, local authorities and members of his family said, Reuters reported.
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