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The European Union has announced sanctions against Russian chipmakers. The companies on the list previously suffered from US sanctions in 2014, but now their situation will deteriorate significantly. Experts predict that the situation around Russian chipmakers could worsen significantly, although their situation was already bad after the US sanctions imposed earlier. The following companies were […]
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky signed the law “On Virtual Assets” passed by the parliament a month ago, which gives the green light to launch a legal market for virtual assets in Ukraine and bring the cryptocurrency transaction out of the shadows. The law on financial monitoring has been in force in Ukraine since April […]
President Volodymyr Zelensky announced the completion of the process of unification of the Ukrainian and European energy systems, saying that Ukraine has now become a member of the “Energy European Union”. The head of state wrote about this on Twitter on Wednesday. “Now our electricity flows to the EU, and European – to Ukraine,” – […]
On February 15 at 16:22 UTC, a Rocket 3.3 rocket was launched from the Pacific Spaceport site on Kodiak Island (Alaska). Carrier number LV0009 sent a payload for three clients into solar-synchronous orbit: NearSpace Launch equipment inseparably attached to the second stage, Portland Aerospace Cubs, and some cargo in favor of an unknown customer. The […]
During the war, Vodafone Ukraine lifted restrictions on the distribution of mobile Internet from smartphones to other devices for tariff plans with unlimited Internet. The offer applies to prepaid tariff plans Vodafone Unlim 3G, Vodafone Unlim 3G Plus, Vodafone SuperNet Unlim, Vodafone SuperNet Turbo 2019. At the time of the war, the services ‘Internet distribution […]
In order to promptly respond to the new challenges facing participants in the startup ecosystem of Ukraine under martial law, the Ukrainian Foundation of Startups conducted an online study of the ecosystem. About 150 founders of Ukrainian startups took part in the survey. Respondents answered questions about the possibility of continuing their activities, in particular, […]
A Russian company that owns the once-popular ICQ instant messaging system plans to restart it. This was reported by the Russian edition “Vedomosti“. According to a source close to VK Group, the ICQ restart project was discussed at the top management level before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But after the start of the war, […]
Digital passports are returned to the Action application. This was announced on Wednesday, March 16, in the Telegram channel of services. “If you have lost your passport or ID card in Diia, log in again – they are back, which means that the Unified State Demographic Register is reconnected to Diia“, – said in a […]
In connection with the military invasion of Ukraine, the EU Aviation Security Agency (EASA) has suspended licenses issued to Russian companies. This was reported in the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine (MIU). “These are licenses of air carriers for products, spare parts, devices, licenses for air maintenance, as well as licenses of training centers for […]
On March 15, the Verkhovna Rada approved more than a dozen important initiatives against the background of the war. Among them – the bill on tax benefits № 7137-d and another equally important № 7152 on the creation of backup copies of state information resources and protection of information in martial law. Thus, during the […]