President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky announced that soon a university, which prepares the specialists in combating and countering cyber threats, will be opened in the country.
“We will open a new powerful university, the presentation is almost ready. A university that will have such professions related to the cybersecurity of the country, of the people. Cybersecurity is one of the main faculties of this university […] We will select the best children, we will give very high scholarships […] modern laboratories, cyber centers, biochemical centers will be built there […]”, Zelensky told reporters after speaking at the Ukraine 30 All-Ukrainian Forum.
The President also said that the university will also have a powerful selection of teachers, primarily Ukrainians, but foreign specialists will also be attracted, who will be paid high salarie.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding and Cooperation between JSC Ukrzaliznytsia and Stadler on May 7 following talks with representatives of the Office of the President of Ukraine, the Ministry of Strategic Industries and the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine.
Currently, Stadler will be looking for a site for the construction of a plant for the production of suburban trains and city trams. The next steps will be technology transfer and employee training to ensure product quality that meets the company’s standards. This plant will focus on domestic Ukrainian consumers, participation in tenders, as well as on the export of products to other countries, the President’s Office said on its website on Friday.
“We fully support such investments in our country. Ukraine is interested in such cooperation, and we discussed such opportunities during the official visit of the President of the Swiss Confederation to Ukraine,” Zelensky said at a meeting with Peter Christoph Spuhler, President of the Board of Directors of one of the world’s leading rolling stock manufacturers – the Swiss company Stadler CIS AG, and Alexander Luft, CEO of Stadler CIS AG.
Cooperation with Stadler will also contribute to the implementation of the project of high-quality suburban railway service City Express, the first stage of which is to be implemented in Kyiv, Dnipro and Kharkiv, the message reads.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky called the proposal of U.S. President Joe Biden to hold a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in a third country as correct, since this dialogue could “resolve a number of issues.”
“I believe that this [Biden’s intention to meet with Putin on the territory of a third country] is correct. This is very […] timely, very important […] I think this could solve a number of issues, because there should be a dialogue between these countries. Sometimes, when such large states do not communicate, others suffer. Believe us, we understand that,” Zelensky said at a briefing following talks with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Friday.
At the same time, Zelensky said that if during the meeting the leaders of the United States and Russia raise the issue of Ukraine, which may well be relevant, then the discussion will not be “so substantive and correct.”
“It [the issue of Ukraine] will not be substantive, it will not be correct, and this will once again show that large countries are in size, they think that everything is around them, but it seems to me that the world is much larger,” the president said.
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President Volodymyr Zelensky signed law No. 1320-IX on amendments to certain legislative acts of Ukraine to prevent excessive pressure on business entities, which was adopted by parliament on March 4, 2021, the presidential press service said on Thursday. “The law allows local authorities to exercise control over the observance of labour legislation at enterprises, institutions and organizations of communal property of the respective territorial communities,” the press service said in a statement.
It is noted that local government authorities can also take the initiative to carry out a public audit at enterprises that are not in communal ownership, as well as in relation to individuals, entrepreneurs using the labour of hired employees.
“The executive authorities of village, settlement, city councils can contact the central executive agencies implementing public policy on state supervision and control over compliance with labour legislation, or its territorial agency (State Labour Service of Ukraine) on violations by a business entity of legislation on labour and employment of the population,” the President’s Office said.
The President’s Office said that the executive authorities of city councils and merged territorial communities are deprived of the right to draw up protocols on administrative offenses for violation of labour and employment legislation.
“Among other things, the law proposes to exempt the State Labour Service of Ukraine and its territorial agencies from paying court fees when considering cases in all courts,” the President’s Office said in the statement.
The document also amends the Code of Ukraine on Administrative Offenses, according to which, for failure to comply with legal requirements or prevent officials from the central executive agency implementing public policy on supervision and control over compliance with labour legislation and its territorial agencies, or preventing their officials for the implementation of measures of state supervision provides for a fine for officials from 50 to 100 non-taxable minimum incomes of citizens.
This law comes into force one month after the date of its publication.