On July 15, the Presszvanie project, with the support of the Experts Club, held another webinar for journalists entitled “How Figures and Facts Lie to Us, and What to Do with This.”
Oleksandr Kramarenko, the editor-in-chief of the Dengi and Korrespondent magazines, spoke about how to correctly operate with figures and facts within the framework of data journalism, how to adequately use critical thinking and data presentation techniques.
The webinar video is available at
The Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine has received 1,300 preliminary applications for e-resident status from different countries.
“Two weeks ago, we launched a project landing to an international audience. And we have already received 1,300 preliminary applications for e-resident status from different countries,” Deputy Prime Minister for Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov wrote in his telegram channel.
According to him, the first country and the most successful example of launching an e-residency was Estonia, which in six years received more than 80,000 e-residents and plus EUR 54 million to the state budget.
“Inspired by the experience of foreign partners, we are creating a new product, thanks to which Ukraine has the potential to become the largest IT hub in Eastern and Central Europe. By the end of 2022, we expect 3,000 e-residents in Ukraine,” he said.
According to Fedorov, the project will annually replenish the Ukrainian state budget by $1.5 million.
As reported, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine at an extraordinary meeting on Tuesday adopted at the first reading Bill No. 5270 of March 18, 2021, introducing temporary (until December 31, 2022) features and rules of taxation of business activities of electronic resident entrepreneurs (e-residency).
286 MPs voted in favor of the bill.
The bill will allow foreigners and stateless persons who have received e-resident status to register as a person-entrepreneur, conduct business activities and pay taxes in Ukraine without the need to stay in Ukraine.
Two people died as a result of the fall and catching fire of the Mi-2 helicopter in Mykolaiv region on Saturday morning, the press service of the State Emergency Service reported.
“At 06:08 on July 17, near the village of Zayve, Mykolaiv region, the Mi-2 (Meridian-Avia-Agro) helicopter crashed, followed by a fire, as a result of which two people (the pilot and the pilot’s assistant) died,” the service said on its website.
At 06:35, the fire was extinguished on an area of 6 square meters.
Eight people and two units of equipment were involved in extinguishing the fire and unlocking the dead.
As of July 16, Ukrainian agrarians have harvested 5.5 million tonnes (more by 4.1 million tonnes per week from July 9 to July 16) of grain and leguminous crops from an area of 1.3 million hectares (9% to the forecast).
According to the information and analytical portal of the agrarian and industrial complex of Ukraine, in the context of crops, the following were threshed: winter barley – 2.9 million tonnes from an area of 685,000 hectares (28% of the total area under this crop), winter wheat – 2.5 million tonnes from 611,000 hectares (9%), and peas – 74,000 tonnes from 32,400 hectares (14%).
According to the portal, the leaders in harvesting since the beginning of the harvesting campaign are Kherson (the crop was harvested from 53% of the area), Mykolaiv (24%), Odesa (14%), Dnipropetrovsk (13%) and Donetsk (11%) regions.
Sales of meat for slaughter (in live weight) decreased by 2.5% in Ukraine in January-June 2021, year-over-year, to 1.60 million tonnes, milk production by 5.3%, to 4.32 million tonnes, eggs by 13.6%, to 7.38 billion pieces, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine said on the website on Friday.
According to it, as of July 1, the poultry population in Ukraine decreased by 3.8%, year-over-year, to 239.2 million heads, cattle by 6.5%, to 3.23 million heads (including the number of cows decreased by 5.8%, to 1.67 million heads), sheep and goats by 5.0%, to 1.39 million heads, while the number of pigs increased by 0.7%, to 6.11 million heads.
The sale of poultry for slaughter by agricultural enterprises decreased by 0.6% in the six months of 2021 versus January-June 2020 and amounted to 325.06 million heads, the sale of pigs increased by 10.1%, to 2.51 million heads, cattle decreased by 14.2%, to 157,900 heads, sheep by 27.9%, to 24,000 heads.
Agricultural enterprises for the same period sold 21.5% fewer eggs, 3.52 billion pieces.
The State Statistics Service said that for the specified period, Kyiv region became the leaders in the production of eggs with 1.32 billion pieces (2% more year-over-year), Khmelnytska with 260 million pieces (33.2% less), Kherson with 252.3 million pieces (28.6% less) and Dnipropetrovsk regions with 249.9 million pieces (5.2% less).
According to the statistics department, in the first half of 2021 most milk was produced by the enterprises of Poltava some 195,800 tonnes (1% less year-over-year), Cherkasy some 143,200 tonnes (5.1% less), Kharkiv some 123,200 tonnes (1.7% more) and Chernihiv some 115,100 tonnes (7.0% less).
Denmark is lifting the entry restrictions previously imposed on Ukrainian citizens as part of countering the spread of COVID-19, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has said.
“Denmark opens for all types of travel of Ukrainians tomorrow, July 17, from 16:00. Visa-free travel, as in the good old days. Entry is possible with a fresh negative test and a test upon arrival. Country by country we are restoring the visa-free regime with the EU,” Kuleba wrote on his Twitter on Friday.
