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Ukrainians urge Amazon to drop Donetsk separatist kitsch from ‘marketplace’

November 20, 2018

While a variety of Donetsk separatist kitsch items, such as this one, have been made available on Amazon’s marketplace, some Ukrainians consider them as “terrorist” swag and are demanding a ban, preferably in time for Christmas. “Amazon profits from promoting terrorism,” Health Minister Ulana Suprun charged in a bilingual Facebook post alongside images of the …

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Ukrainian social media users get five years in prison for ‘supporting separatism’

February 7, 2017

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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16-year-old Ukrainian entrepreneur launches fintech startup in Australia

January 18, 2016

Stas Prisiazhnuk, a 16-year-old entrepreneur from Donetsk, a war-torn city in Eastern Ukraine, is expecting to receive $40,000 in seed-stage funding from Muru-D, a Australian startup accelerator program, to develop his fintech project Persollo. Muru-D will receive a 4% stake in the company. The young entrepreneur told Ukrainian tech blog AIN.UA that the project had …

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Pro-Ukrainian cyber forces take down 46 separatist sites and target online money accounts

November 17, 2014

Working day and night, as reported by Ukrainian news resource TSN.UA, Ukrainian cyber forces and individual pro-Ukrainian hackers have maintained online attacks on all Internet resources linked to insurgents in the eastern part of the country, whom the Kyiv (Kiev) government deems as terrorists. As of early November, the cyber forces claimed to have downed …

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IT programmers and businesses run away from Donbass unrest

August 8, 2014

Due to the unrest in Eastern Ukraine, many programmers have run away from the Donbass region to other parts of Ukraine or abroad. Liga.Business reports that, as of early June, one-fourth of programmers had left the region, with most IT companies directing their employees to cities like Kyiv (Kiev), Uzhgorod, Lviv (Lvov), or even out …

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