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Popular U.S. streaming platform Netflix will shoot its first movie in Kyiv, Ukraine’s Culture Minister Oleksandr Tkachenko announced on July 31. Netflix’s action-comedy “The Last Mercenary” will star
Jul. 31, 2020
Ukraine has prolonged its ban on Russian websites VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, Mail.ru and Yandex. In the past, all of them were hugely popular in the country. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky sign
May. 16, 2020
The introduction of mobile number portability, a service allowing users to change mobile operators and retain their phone number, was meant to help escape “mobile slavery” and to level the playing fie
Feb. 28, 2020
Editor’s Note: This is a corrected version of the story originally published on Feb. 24. We have changed the headline and parts of the story. The Kyiv Post reached out to Reddit while preparing the st
Feb. 24, 2020
The Japanese tech firm Rakuten, which owns the popular messaging app Viber, plans to open a second research and development center in Ukraine, Ukraine’s Digital Transformation Ministry announced late
Feb. 5, 2020
Google has reportedly opened its second office in Ukraine. The U.S. tech giant launched its new research and development (R&D) center in Kyiv in January 2020, Ukrainian online tech journal AIN.ua
Jan. 15, 2020
In his ministry’s conference room, Alexander Bornyakov, 37, has posters of superheroes and videogame characters. But Bornyakov isn’t just a geek – he’s a serious man with a serious task. Appointed as
Dec. 23, 2019
They may be called smartphones, but one man came up with a very dumb way to smuggle them. A 51-year-old Ukrainian citizen was caught at Kyiv’s Boryspil airport on Dec. 10 trying to bring 26 iPhones in
Dec. 12, 2019
Ukraine’s mobile-only bank Monobank is coming to the United Kingdom. Two Ukrainians, who are also former top executives of the notorious PrivatBank, are banking stars in today’s Ukraine: they co-found
Nov. 28, 2019
They’re an iconic feature of Ukrainian public transport: “marshrutkas,” the sometimes rickety, oft maligned, and almost always overcrowded private buses zipping down city streets. They also form an im
May. 14, 2019
A Ukrainian model-making startup, Time 4 Machine, announced late on May 4 that it had raised $430,000 on the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter to produce its metal, mechanical models. The money was pl
May. 5, 2019
It’s enough to make some Ukrainian gamers want to hit something. WB Games, a branch of the U.S. Warner Bros. entertainment company, has canceled the release of its video game Mortal Kombat 11 schedule
Apr. 18, 2019
The green smiley of e-commerce giant Rozetka is one of the most recognizable logos in Ukraine — every day millions of people visit its website, tens of thousands order through it every day. And yet, n
Apr. 1, 2019
A Ukrainian has become world’s best cybersportsman in the online shooter game “Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.” Professional video game player Alexander Kostylev — nicknamed s1mple and aged 21 — has
Jan. 21, 2019
Typically, buses drive around cities and don’t raise any eyebrows as they ply their routes. But this bus is the complete opposite: it dwells off road, and it’s hard to miss when it approaches. Called
Jan. 14, 2019
Ukraine can’t claim to lead in many global rankings, but it has strong-armed its way into one more: the country is now among the top 20 by daily traffic on Pornhub, the world’s largest pornography sit
Dec. 13, 2018
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Informing the world, setting the record straight, and debunking fake news from Russia, these YouTubers have amassed a following on the front lines of the info-war.
Jan. 2, 2023