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What's a FOP, and why are the IMF and Ukraine fighting over it?
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What's a FOP, and why are the IMF and Ukraine fighting over it?

by Liliane Bivings

Editor's note: A version of this article first appeared in the Ukraine Business Roundup, our weekly newsletter on what's shaping Ukraine's businesses and economy. Sign up here. After months of failing to pass a range of measures needed to unlock billions in stalled donor funding, Ukraine’s parliament made a small dent in the long list of reforms this week. But there was one piece of regulation conspicuously absent from the agenda. As part of a new $8.1 billion International Monetary Fund loan

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Ukraine war latest: Russia violates Easter ceasefire 2,299 times, military says

Key developments on April 11-12: * Russia violates Easter ceasefire 2,299 times; at least 4 killed, 35 injured in Ukraine over past day * Russian forces executed 4 Ukrainian POWs in Kharkiv Oblast, prosecutors say * Ukraine strikes oil facilities in Russia, occupied Crimea * Boris Johnson visits Ukraine's southern front, criticizes Western lack of support * Ukraine brings home 175 POWs in Easter Eve swap with Russia Over a period of 15 hours,  Russia violated a recently announced Easter c

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