• Ukrainians paid their respects to protesters who were killed during the 2013-2014 EuroMaidan Revolution at a ceremony in central Kyiv on Nov. 21 — the fifth anniversary of the popular uprising that swept pro-Russian former President Viktor Yanukovych from power in Ukraine.
• Business associations are concerned about the Ukrainian government proposing a draft law increasing income taxation. The bill, created by the Ministry of Social Policy, would eliminate the cap on the single social contribution, a tax which helps pay for pensions. That, in turn, would lead to increased expenses for companies that pay their employees transparent and legal salaries, the advocates say.
• U.S.-based online shop Amazon is profiting from sales of products emblazoned with the symbols of one of the fake republics that the Kremlin created in the east after it launched its war on Ukraine in 2014. Ukrainians are not happy.
• Both Ireland’s Ryanair and Hungarian company Wizzair have now announced new flights from Ukraine to Europe: Ryanair is to start direct flights to five new destinations from Kyiv, while Wizzair is expanding its regional presence, connecting Kharkiv to London and Vienna, and Lviv to Frankfurt.
• Ukraine and Great Britain will deepen cooperation in countering Russia’s aggression.
• Ukraine’s poultry firm Myronivsky Hliboproduct has signed an agreement to buy 90.7 percent of Slovenian poultry producer Perutnina Ptuj.
• Women constitute 67 percent of the economically active population of Ukraine, according to Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze.
• Ukraine’s Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman suggested the Verkhovna Rada to confirm Oksana Acting Finance Minister Markarova as the Minister of Finance of Ukraine.
• Interpol elected a South Korean police veteran as its next president instead of a former Russian security services general whose candidacy had raised concerns in the West.
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