Confirming that the relations between Ukraine and Russia are currently at their lowest, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko yesterday signed a decree applying sanctions to 468 legal entities and 1,228 individuals from Russia. Among the targeted organizations are the two leading Russian Internet groups — Yandex and Mail.Ru Group — the services of which will be made …
Last week US President Donald Trump signed a decree “Buy American, employ American workers,” which strengthens the protection of certain goods produced in America and calls for a revision of the H-1B visa program. This program promotes the work of highly qualified foreign specialists in the US in order to reform this program. The working visas …
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If Ukrainian mobile phone users are tired of their tariff plans or fed up with poor service, they face a tough choice: either they stay with their current provider and suffer on, or change networks and be forced to change their number as well. Such a dilemma doesn’t exist in the more than 70 countries …
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A Ukrainian court sentenced two men to five years in prison for “supporting separatism” on the social media website VKontakte on February 6. The men, both residents of Sloviansk, were arrested by Ukraine’s Security Services in April 2015. They were convicted by a Sloviansk city court under an article of Ukraine’s penal code, “Infringement of the …
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Amazon Prime Video has acquired rights to Ukrainian comedy #Selfieparty produced by the Sonce (“the Sun” in Ukrainian) channel. The news was reported by Sonce on its Facebook page earlier this month. The acquisition took place a month after US tech giant made its video offer available in Ukraine along with other 200 countries and territories around …
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The Crimea prosecution office, whose role is to apply Ukrainian law in a territory which has been under Russian control since March 2014, has filed a lawsuit against Booking.com. The company, which is incorporated in the Netherlands, is accused of “violating Ukrainian and international law, as well as sanctions, not only by cooperating with bandit …
Earlier this week the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s parliament, approved amendments to the Ukrainian export legislation, which may facilitate the export of services. The new legislation will apply to all exporting companies, including service providers and freelancers from the IT industry. The new legislation lifts the obligation to sign a paper contract, use a rubber stamp, provide a report …
Since early 2010 the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) has been checking the legality of the work of IT companies. While some cases of large investigation program towards big IT-companies proved to be justified, law-abiding IT businesses have also been targeted. Among the latest examples are Adamant, Lucky Labs, KM Core, and V.O.K.S. Sadly enough, the guilt of IT-companies …
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Last week a resident of Chop, a town in Western Ukraine, was arrested while trying to smuggle 16 cartons of cigarettes Marlboro to Hungary by drone. Another 16 cartons which were probably supposed to be “transported” too were confiscated along with the drone at the time of arrest.
Head of Ukraine’s Fiscal Service Roman Nasirov said on Sept. 27 that all the iPhones 7 that are found in Ukraine have been smuggled into the country. “If you see someone with an iPhone 7, you can tell those people that they are criminals,” Nasirov said at the Cabinet of Ministers’ meeting. According to him, for the …
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The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has abolished the requirement for Ukrainian residents to obtain a price evaluation act to make cross-border payments for the purchase of services and IP rights from foreign residents in the amount exceeding €50,000. The central bank’s decision took effect on August 19, 2016. Previously, such price evaluations were delivered by the State …
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The Ukrainian tech and legal communities are cordially invited to the Innovating Justice Boostcamp, an event organized by the Hague Institute for Innovation of Law (HiiL) in Kyiv (Kiev) on September 28. This event will highlight the Ukrainian semi-finalists of HiiL Justice Accelerator. It will feature pitches by the eight most innovative legal and justice ventures …
