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First gold medal for Ukraine at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.

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Today, on February 18, Alexander Abramenko, a freestyler from Nikolaev, won the first gold medal for Ukraine at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. The judge jumped the jump of the athlete at 128.51 points. Thus, Nicholas's athlete became the Olympic champion, ahead of the Chinese athlete and athlete OAR. It is worth noting that Alexander Abramenko acts at the Olympic Games for the fourth time. He previously performed in Turin, Vancouver and Sochi.

KrAZ-222 - the first truck ofUkrainian auto giant

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KrAZ-222 - the first truck of  Ukrainian auto giant. Since this car was originally planned to be named Dnipro-222, however, for an unknown reason it was refused. that the technical documentation sufficiently long faced multivariate name of the truck as the Dnieper-222, KrAZ-222 or KrAZ-222 "Dnepr".

TransferWise with the office in Cherkassy and BitFury hit the top 50 fintech start-ups according to Forbes

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TransferWise with the office in Cherkassy and BitFury hit the top 50 fintech start-ups according to Forbes. In the list - many famous teams, including Coinbase, Ripple and others.    the Latvian-Ukrainian BitFury Group - the company was founded in 2011 by the Latvian Valery Vavilov and the Ukrainian Valery Heavenly. The company manufactures equipment and software for mining crypto-currencies, including bitcoins, and also works on blocking technologies. Last year it became known that the startup earns almost $ 100 million a year.  TransferWise serves about two million customers, who transfer more than 1 billion pounds ($ 1.31 billion) per month for 750 currency routes. The startup also works with Ukrainian hryvnia, although so far it is only possible to receive transfers in the country.

Ukrainian Jooble took 2nd place on the traffic in the world among job search sites.

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Ukrainian job search service Jooble ranked second in popularity in the category Jobs and Employment in the world according to the GlobalWeb traffic analysis service SimilarWeb . I n 2006 they just launched this business, despite corruption, taxes, inoperative judicial system in Ukraine. Now, according to him, about 270 million people in 66 countries of the world use the services of Jooble to find work.  F ounded the Roman Prokofiev and Eugene Sobakar in 2006 - future partners sitting at a desk in the Physical-Technical Lyceum in Kherson, traveled together to the Olympiad in Informatics, Mathematics, Physics.

On March 23 International Conference to be held in Kiev BlockchainUA

On March 23 International Conference to be held in Kiev BlockchainUA  The BlockchainUA conference is aimed at a broad audience and aims to raise the awareness of participants about blockade and decentralized technologies, build a strong community, and integrate Ukraine into the international community. Basic principles of the conference:      We do not have paid performances.      We provide an opportunity to announce products and startups at the specialized Startup pitch stage.      Companies that have a working product in demand by users can present their achievements and the concept of development.      We do not promote the ICO.      This is an educational and networking event: by default, speakers should give an educational cut in their speeches, as well as a common vision in the context of their expertise.      This is a non-profit conference, so we keep the low prices for tickets.      The conference has a wide audience - IT experts, entrepreneurs, investors, bankers, s