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Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has said that the government is to initiate the introduction of a state monopoly on amber production in Ukraine.

“In September, we’ll once again address the Verkhovna Rada to first of all introduce licensing of amber production, and the Finance Ministry is already putting pus Hr 1 billion from the amber realization to income in the state budget for 2016. The second [issue] is the state monopoly and supervision over amber production,” Yatsenyuk said at a briefing in Kyiv on Aug. 3.