Victoria Petryk

December 21, 2021 / by Victoria Petryk, Oleg Petrasiuk

Kyiv had its first heavy snowfall of the season on the evening of Dec. 20, with 13 centimeters of snow rapidly covering the capital. Traffic ground to a...

Business

Number of individual entrepreneurs continued increasing sharply in 2021

December 21, 2021 / by Victoria Petryk

The number of workers who operate as individual entrepreneurs in Ukraine has hit a five-year high of 2 million, monitoring service Opendatabot reported on Dec. 20. In the...

Culture

Ukrainians spend Hr 1,000 vaccination bounty on cinemas, books, theaters

December 20, 2021 / by Victoria Petryk

Ukrainians who got Hr 1,000 from the government for getting their coronavirus shots are mainly spending it on cinema, books and theaters, according to new stats from the...

National

More than 600,000 Ukrainians left homeland in 2021

December 19, 2021 / by Victoria Petryk

In the first 10 months of 2021, more than 600,000 Ukrainians left the country and didn't return, according to monitoring service Opendatabot.“In total, from 2011 to 2020, 2.6...

National

Ukraine to purchase Molnupiravir pills to treat Covid-19

December 19, 2021 / by Victoria Petryk

The Health Ministry has signed an agreement to purchase Molnupiravir for the treatment of Covid-19, Deputy Health Minister Oleksandr Komarida announced on Dec. 17. Ukraine will purchase 300,000...

National

Ukraine extends adaptive quarantine until March 31

December 15, 2021 / by Victoria Petryk

The Cabinet of Ministers extended Ukraine's adaptive quarantine through March 31 to counteract the pandemic, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said on Dec. 15."This means that all the rules...

Culture

Legendary Petrivka book market will be torn down, replaced by shopping mall

December 15, 2021 / by Victoria Petryk

Kyiv's famous Petrivka book market will be torn down and replaced by another shopping mall, according to documents available on the urban planning department website of the Kyiv...

National

Health minister falsely claims Ukraine reached WHO's target of vaccinating 40% of population

December 14, 2021 / by Victoria Petryk

Health Minister Viktor Lyashko announced on Dec. 13 that Ukraine has reached the World Health Organization's recommended target of fully vaccinating 40% of its adult population against Covid-19...

National

Police officer, medical worker suspected of Covid-19 vaccination forgery

December 10, 2021 / by Victoria Petryk

The Kyiv Prosecutor’s Office has started an investigation into a fake Covid-19 vaccination certificate scheme organized by a police officer and a medical worker, according to a Dec....

Politics

Anti-corruption body: Medvedchuk failed to declare $2.68 million in assets

December 9, 2021 / by Victoria Petryk

Lawmaker Viktor Medvedchuk, co-head of the pro-Kremlin 44-member Opposition Platform - For Life faction, failed to declare assets worth over Hr 73 million ($2.7 million), the National Agency...

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