Representatives of the House of Representatives and the US Senate have agreed to include additional sanctions against Russia’s Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline.
The sanctions will be included in the US State Defense Act for 2021.This was reported by Bloomberg. The sanctions will affect insurance and certification companies working with Russian courts to complete the project. The draft defense law must be agreed in the United States by the end of the year.
“The new legislation on sanctions states that the previously imposed sanctions apply to all pipeline and insurance activities,” the newspaper said.
At the same time, Germany, as an ally, is not subject to US sanctions.
Foreign pharmaceutical company Euro Pharma International is building a new pharmaceutical plant in Kiev Svyatoshinsky district, Kyiv region. The first phase of the project start is scheduled for autumn 2016. To date, the company estimates the volume of investments of $ 50 million. “I am very pleased that the foreign investors are interested in our […]
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Spouses McMahon, the owners of the “Morgan Fenice company ” – a large manufacturer of the upholstered furniture (Morgan Furniture LLC, Kvasyliv, Rivne region), are going to invest 280 million UAH (€ 9.3 million) within the next three years to expand production capacity and specialty-equipment. This will increase the volumes of production and export by […]
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The Canadian company Mobify received $ 10 million of investments from the Acton Capital Partners fund. The company also announced that the new members have joined the board of directors. They are Hannes Blum, from Acton, who was the vice president of the Amazon for seven years, and founded the AbeBooks company, which was bought […]
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The Deposit Guarantee Fund of individuals introduced a temporary administration in “Fidobank”. It is reported by the press service of the Fund. The decision was made on the base of the decision of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) on May 20 to classify “Fidobank” to the category of the insolvent. Earlier, “Fidobank” reported about […]
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The General Motors company will invest in the owner of taxi service the Lyft Inc. about $ 500 million. The plans of General Motors in the future are to increase the investment to $ 1 billion. After the transaction, the General Motors will get a seat on the board of directors of Lyft Inc. and […]
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“Svarog West Group” will direct $ 3.5 million for innovative projects in 2016. That was said by the chairman of the Corporation Andrey Gordiychuk in an interview to the AgroPolit.com. According to him, the investment “appetite” of the company significantly decreased in 2016. “But this does not apply to investments in research and development: ours are IT-solutions, […]
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The last two years Oschadbank opened 500 branches in Ukraine. Twelve of them are adapted for people with disabilities. This information was published by the investment portal InVenture Ukraine. The most advanced Oschadbank branches are located in Kyiv, Odessa, Lviv, Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions. The Bank plans to continue to implement the modernization of branches […]
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The Bloomberg News agency estimated the yield a wide range of assets in 2015, ranging from currencies and stock indexes, to commodities and junk bonds. It is in the segment of junk bonds (junk, high-yield bonds) determined the most profitable asset last year – Eurobonds of Ukrzaliznytsia with maturing in May 2018. Investments in this […]
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National Aviation Service will implement a project – Twinning, which provides technical and financial assistance of the EU, with the aim to bring Ukrainian aviation standards to the European ones. This was told by Alexander Bilchuk, chairman of the State Aviation Service of Ukraine. “The signing of the working agreement between the State Aviation Service and […]
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Group DF officially registered in 27 countries of the EU trademark “Ukraine Tomorrow”. Group DF, that is controlled by businessman Dmitry Firtash, announced the end of the official registration in the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM) of trademarks for goods and services “Ukraine Tomorrow” (TM), “Ukraine Morgen” and “Ukraine Tomorrow”, around which […]
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Ukraine will allocate 2.6 billion hryvnias for the purchase of a coronavirus vaccine. This was stated by Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko at the press conference on Monday, September 14. “By 2023, we have a real opportunity to ensure health care spending at 5%. There is an increase in 2021 to 4.2% of GDP for health […]
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The Cofco Agri Ukraine Company, which belongs to the Chinese Cofco Corporation is one of the largest global manufacturers and suppliers of agricultural products and foodstuffs, will officially launch the terminal in Mykolaiv sea port on May 19. This is reported by the “Interfax-Ukraine” with reference to the company’s message. This terminal is one of […]
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Ukrainian company SkyUp Airlines opens new foreign routes departing from Kyiv, Lviv and Kharkiv. On Tuesdays and Fridays flights are scheduled from Kiev to Belgrade and Stockholm, on Thursdays and Sundays in Bratislava, on Wednesdays and Sundays in Amman, on Mondays and Thursdays in Colombo, on Wednesdays and Saturdays in Dubai. From Lviv on Wednesdays […]
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The Ukrainians, who make financial transactions at a rate of more than 50 thousand UAH in cash, will be fined a minimum of 1700 UAH. Such a fact noted a practicing lawyer and human rights activist Arsen Marinushkin in his commentary for Gazeta.ua edition. In accordance with Article 163-15 of Ukrainian Codex of administrative delinquency […]
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Bank Arkada was declared insolvent due to a reduction in capital. The head of the National Bank Kyrylo Shevchenko spoke about the reasons for the bank’s withdrawal from the market on Wednesday, August 26. “The reason for withdrawing the bank from the market is to reduce the capital ratio to less than one third of […]
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The company Amazon announced the launch of a new biometric technology Amazon One, allowing to customers to enter the store and pay for purchases by placing their palm on the scanner. However, users must first associate biometric information with the credit card. And then you can pay by placing the palm. This was reported by […]
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