According to The Serbian Economist, Ukrainian tennis player Oleg Prykhodko has decided to change his sporting citizenship and will henceforth compete under the flag of North Macedonia.
The athlete is renouncing the flag under which he previously competed in international tournaments. Details of the transition process, as well as the reasons behind his decision, have not yet been officially disclosed.
Oleg Prykhodko is currently ranked 296th in the ATP rankings, which will make him one of North Macedonia’s leading tennis players once the change in sporting citizenship is complete.
The 27-year-old tennis player primarily competes in ATP Challenger and ITF tournaments. Over the course of his career, he has won several titles in both singles and doubles.
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The Noms app—a visual food diary with artificial intelligence features—is gaining popularity on social media. Unlike traditional food trackers, it displays meals not as a table but as a “virtual table” or visual food diary: users take photos of their meals, and the app turns them into stickers and estimates calories, protein, fat, and carbs.
Judging by the pages on the App Store and Google Play, Noms was developed by Vietnamese developer Dat Pham / Phạm Tiến Đạt. On Google Play, the developer’s profile lists Vietnam, and on the App Store page, Dat Pham is also listed as the provider.
The main feature of Noms isn’t so much the calorie-counting function itself as it is the design. The app turns meals into a visual diary: food is displayed as a set of “stickers,” and users can view a meal calendar, save their history, create video summaries, and share cards on social media.
The AI feature works via photos: the user takes a picture of a dish, and the model estimates the calories, carbohydrates, proteins, and fats. The app description specifically notes that Noms can automatically calculate nutritional values and save the history in the calendar.
However, the app cannot be considered a completely free service with no restrictions. It can be downloaded for free, but the App Store lists in-app purchases, and the description mentions a PRO subscription and ads for free users regarding social features. Google Play also lists in-app purchases.
For the consumer AI app market, Noms is interesting because it transforms food tracking from a “boring diary” format into a game and visual content experience. This reflects a broader trend: AI services are trying not just to process data, but to make everyday habits more understandable, engaging, and social.
According to Relocation, residential real estate prices in Germany rose by an average of 1.4% in the first quarter compared to the same period in 2025, according to a report by the Federal Statistical Office.
Apartment prices in the country’s seven largest cities (Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Frankfurt am Main, Stuttgart, and Düsseldorf) rose by 0.3%, while in other major cities they rose by 2.9%. In densely populated rural areas, prices fell by 0.4%, while in sparsely populated areas, they rose by 3.6%.
Single- and two-family homes in metropolitan areas became 1.4% more expensive, and in other major cities, they rose by 1.2%. In sparsely populated rural areas, buyers paid, on average, 0.8% less than a year ago.
Residential real estate prices overall rose by 0.3% in January–March compared to the previous three months.
Nearly 800 entrepreneurs are currently on the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine’s blacklist due to bid-rigging, according to the Consolidated Report on the Distortion of Tender Results. This represents 30% of the total number of businesses on this list. Overall, the largest number of such entrepreneurs are in the Lviv region. Nearly one in three sole proprietors on the AMCU’s blacklist operates in the wholesale trade sector.
As of the end of June 2026, there were 797 sole proprietors on the AMCU’s blacklist. This accounts for 30% of the total number of sole proprietorships and companies on this list.
Entrepreneurs are placed on the blacklist if the AMCU finds them guilty of collusion while participating in public procurement. This refers to situations where several tender participants merely create the appearance of competition, but in reality agree in advance on who will win. As a result, the state may end up overpaying for goods, works, or services, while other participants lose the chance to win the tender fairly.
Being included on this list has consequences: for three years following the AMCU’s decision, such entrepreneurs may be barred from participating in public procurement. That is why contracting authorities regularly check this list before determining the tender winner.
You can check whether a business is on the AMCU’s blacklist using OpenDataBot.
The number of businesses in violation is growing year after year. While 242 decisions regarding such businesses were issued in 2024, that number rose to 306 in 2025. This is the highest figure in the last 10 years. Another 186 entrepreneurs, whom the Committee found to have engaged in anti-competitive concerted actions, were added to the list this year.
The largest number of sole proprietors on the blacklist are registered in Lviv Oblast—95 entrepreneurs, or nearly 12% of the total. Next are Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (81 sole proprietors), Kyiv (78), Vinnytsia Oblast (52), and Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (39).
Nearly one in three of these entrepreneurs works in wholesale trade—there are 231 such sole proprietors. Another 139 entrepreneurs are engaged in retail trade. The violators also include representatives of the food service industry (47), specialized construction work (33), and general construction (32).
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“Fruits of Polissya” LLC plans to raise $21.9 million to build a complex for growing, cooling, sorting, and packaging blueberries in the Volyn region, according to the Ukraine Investment Guide 2026, presented at the Ukraine Recovery Conference (URC2026) in Gdańsk, Poland, which took place in late June.
The total project budget is $24.2 million, of which the company is prepared to finance $2.3 million with its own funds.
The project involves the creation of a 90-hectare blueberry plantation and a production complex for cooling, sorting, and storing the berries in the village of Omelne (Lutsk District, Volyn Oblast).
The planned production capacity will be 1,720 metric tons of blueberries per year; the company also plans to sort and sell an additional 1,580 metric tons annually by purchasing berries from other producers.
As noted in the catalog, the project is based on modern Dutch technologies that protect the plantations from frost, precipitation, strong winds, damage by birds, power outages, and labor shortages.
The primary target market is the European Union, particularly the United Kingdom.
The project is expected to launch within three years, with a payback period estimated at 7.5 years.
“Fruity Polissya” LLC was founded in 2016. The company specializes in blueberry cultivation. In 2018–2019, it leased 94.39 hectares of land, and in 2020, it planted the first phase of a blueberry plantation covering 14 hectares, built a water reservoir with a capacity of 8,000 cubic meters, and constructed a pumping station for drip irrigation covering an area of 46 hectares.
According to the company, about 90% of its production is exported to EU countries, primarily to Poland through an intermediary. The ultimate beneficiaries are Olga Volovchuk and Oleg Ordinat.
In 2025, “Fruity Polissya” LLC saw its revenue decrease by a factor of 4.5 to 1.2 million UAH and its net loss increase by 49.3% to 9.1 million UAH.
Ukrainian steelmakers reduced their production of total rolled steel by 4.3% in January–June of this year compared to the same period last year, down to 2.940 million metric tons.
According to information released by the “Ukrmetallurgprom” association on Wednesday, 599.8 thousand metric tons of rolled steel were produced in June, 537.8 thousand metric tons in May, 460.8 thousand metric tons in April, 544.5 thousand metric tons in March, in February—390.3 thousand metric tons, and in January—406.4 thousand metric tons.
As previously reported, Ukraine’s steel companies increased total rolled steel production by 4.8% in 2025 compared to 2024—to 6.521 million metric tons.
In 2024, Ukraine increased its production of general-purpose rolled steel by 15.8% compared to 2023—to 6.222 million metric tons from 5.372 million metric tons. In 2023, total rolled steel production rose by 0.4% to 5.372 million metric tons, while in 2022 it fell by 72% to 5.350 million metric tons.
In 2021, before the war, 19.079 million metric tons of rolled steel were produced, or 103.5% of the 2020 level.
