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Launched in 1995, Kyiv Post is Ukraine’s leading English-language newspaper, produced by a team of Western and Ukrainian journalists. Over the years, the weekly newspaper has led the charge for a free press in Ukraine, and has played roles in the Georgiy Gongadze scandal, the Orange Revolution and other significant Ukrainian events. The Kyiv Post’s IT coverage is sponsored by Looksery, Ciklum, Steltec Capital and SoftServe. The content is independent of the donors.

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Foundation aims to teach IT skills to veterans, people forced to flee war

A program to reskill people displaced from eastern Ukraine by Russia’s war is gearing up to start this month, with the organizers planning to train future specialists for the country’s burgeoning IT sector. The BrainBasket Foundation and telecoms provider Vodafone Ukraine (formerly MTS Ukraine) started registering candidates for the technical education program, called Coding for …

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IT round table took place in New York to promote Ukraine’s tech sector

America has up to 2 million people who claim Ukrainian roots — and some of them are busy helping promote Ukraine’s informational technology sector. On Oct. 8, the IT Round Table took place with participation from executives of major Ukrainian software developers from DataArt, Eleks, EPAM and SoftServe. The venue was the non-profit Ukrainian Institute of …

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Tech company chooses western Ukraine to escape war

While many Ukrainian tech companies consider locations abroad, Ukrainian IT outsourcing company Binary Studio has chosen western Ukraine as an escape from Russia’s war in the eastern Donbas. The  company was started in 2005 by Donetsk region native Artem Goncharov and his university friend Anton Duzenko. They had just one weekend to escape the Russian-backed separatist Donetsk People’s Republic in …

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Ukrainian online tutor platform graduates from Berlin business accelerator with $120,000

In a small theater in the middle of Berlin’s Kreuzberg district, a Ukrainian entrepreneur comes on stage to music playing from the American drama series “The Game of Thrones.” Taking place on Sept. 10, it was the culmination of three months of working on product design, marketing and fundraising at the TechStars Berlin business accelerator. …

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Norwegian tech executive talks about doing business in Ukraine

While most businesses are put off by instability in Ukraine, Norway’s Itera isn’t one of them. The company, one of Scandinavia’s leading tech players, headquartered in Oslo, came to Ukraine amid the 2008 global economic crisis to open a research and development center. Itera’s center in Kyiv, which is active in consulting, software design, development and …

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Ukrainian startup helps fundraising for gifts

Celebrating colleagues’ birthdays are happy events and part of many corporate cultures. Collecting money for presents, however, can be burdensome. Online service Wishround promises an easy solution. “When we worked at a large IT company in Ukraine, we had the same issue as most companies with over 400 employees usually have,” says Yuriy Shevchenko, the co-founder at Wishround …

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Microlectronics developer teaches to overcome shortage of qualified HR

Ukraine has more than 50,000 software engineers in the information technology industry. Also, according to the Brainbench rating of 2013, the nation ranked third in the number of certified master-level IT specialists among 50 countries. But it’s not strong everywhere. The nation suffers a deficit of sufficiently qualified specialists in high-tech electronic engineering.

Ukrainian tech startups showcase potential at London roadshow

As Ukraine’s technology startups struggle to connect with Silicon Valley investors, their fellow countrymen in London are trying to open doors in the U.K. investor community. To get the ball rolling, Ukrainians Serhiy Burnus and Oleksiy Kolchanov organized the Ukrainian Startups Roadshow at three London locations on July 23-25. Taking place at Bloomberg headquarters, Google Campus, and Deloitte …

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Central bank widens road for cross-border payments and commerce

The legal firewall blocking access for Ukrainians to international banking and online payment systems is set to come tumbling down as the National Bank of Ukraine removed a number of barriers in cross-border payments and commerce. E-payment systems like PayPal can now fully operate in Ukraine. Previously, Ukrainians could purchase goods abroad using PayPal, but it …

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