What to do while in Ukraine

In Kiev, arrested the alleged organizer of the botnet Avalanche, who caused damage to hundreds of millions of euros. Cyberpolicy announced the detention of the alleged organizer of the criminal platform Avalanche in Kiev. When detained, he had a Ukrainian passport in the name of another person. Law enforcement officers also raided the rented apartment detainees and confiscated a laptop, money, and on February flash memory.26 court would elect him a measure of restraint in Poltava. In December 2016, they reported the detention of three Ukrainians suspected of organizing the Avalanche network. One of them, supposedly a man named Gennady Kapkanov, was detained in Poltava. However, the local prosecutor's office did not arrest him and managed to escape. Later, the suspect was put on the international wanted list. Most likely, today, the Cyberpolicy reported that it was his detention.

Ukrainians have launched an online service Tunatravel : they collect tours to Europe and Asia for any budget. To use the services of Tunatravel, you need to register on the site and in the "Pick" fill in a short form: specify the budget, the number of travelers, dates and preferences for housing and transport. To form the first proposals promise only a few hours. In this case, if the customer do not like something or he wants to reduce the cost of the trip, everything can be changed - for example, instead of the proposed hotel to find a hostel. Also on the site there are several already ready-made offers: for example, with a price for two and standard accommodation and flight conditions. But they have the ability to replace any parameter.    

29-year-old Olexander Abramenko brought Ukraine the first gold of the 2018 Olympic Games in Pyeongchang. Abramenko became an olympic champion in Freestyle. In the Super Final Abramenko showed the best result in ski acrobatics, gaining 128.51 points on jump Back Full-Full-Double Full (triple flip, double pirouette in the third flip), the coefficient of difficulty - 4.525. Olexander Abramenko at the request of the Olympic Museum in Lausanne gave his "golden" ski Mukachevo company "TISA" with his autograph. Thus, a new way Olympic victory over Ukraine entered the sports world history.

Hideez Group at the presentation in Kiev's Blockchain Hub showed the first hardware purse for bitcoin and other crypto currency created in Ukraine Hideez Wallet .   Hideez Wallet is created on the basis of the already developed device - the smart keychain Hideez Key, however it is a completely separate product with the functions of the crypto-currency purse. Wireless keychain Hideez Key can store digital keys and certificates, that is, it can open doors, unlock a computer or a smartphone, make mobile payments. According to Oleg Naumenko, CEO of the project, Hideez Wallet differs from existing analogues (the same Trezor ) in that it is a wireless device that can work with mobile phones and desktops.   To sign transactions, it uses the technology Invisible Pin, which works as a combination of short and long button presses on the device.   "It's impossible to spy on it and intercept it, like passwords or standard PIN-codes, for example," Naumenko s...

The Ukrainian model  Alina Baikova commented on rumors about relations with Leonardo DiCaprio . Recently, the famous Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio spotted on the streets of New York in the company of well-known Ukrainian top model Alina Baikova. The media immediately began to spread rumors about the alleged affair between the actor and a Ukrainian. In an interview with Kate Osadchaya for "Social Life" model said that she and DiCaprio are not a couple, although it is often seen, and spend a lot of time together.  "As you know, Tony Garrn is my best friend, and I would never in my life have allowed myself to meet my best friend's husband, even with a former girlfriend," Alina commented on the joint photos with Leonardo.

Ukrainian champions and friends Alexander Usik and Vasily Lomachenko showed their dancing talent, dancing in a restaurant at the celebration of the 30th anniversary of Lomachenko. February 17, Vasily Lomachenko turned 30 years old. But Alexander Antennae January 17 turned 31. Это 30 лет!!!🔥🔥🔥#LomUs @duet_oreshki A post shared by 🇺🇦LomUs Official🇺🇦 (@lomus.ua) on Feb 17, 2018 at 8:40am PST

Wladimir Klitschko with his family vacation in Barbados. Legendary Ukrainian boxer, two-time world heavyweight champion, winner of the 1996 Olympic Games Vladimir Klichko with his family spent Valentine's Day in Barbados.

Freestyleist Alexander Abramenko from Mykolaiv made a jump in ski produced in Ukrainian and took gold. " Fisher-Mukachevo ", revenue for 2013 - $ 38.4 million. former Mukacheve experimental ski factory, and now the Ukrainian-Austrian enterprise "Fisher-Mukachevo". Annually in the world produce about 5 million pairs of mountain and cross-country skis. Approximately 1.2 million of them are made in Mukachevo. Austrian company Fischer is one of the world leaders in their production, and Ukrainian capacities provide it with 80% of production. "Our skis are sold in 35 countries of the world". Approximately the same number of "Fisher-Mukachevo" annually produces hockey sticks, which makes the Ukrainian plant the fourth in the world producer of this product. This plant is the most modern in Eastern Europe. There are shops with the highest level of automation, dozens of parameters are taken into account - up to the temperature and humidity of ai...

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 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. 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 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  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...

The municipal enterprise of the capital of Ukraine suggested Ilona Mask to place the Tesla electric car in the "depths" of the Kiev metro. Dear Elon! You've got the highest Tesla in the world. It's unbelievable! We propose to put the deepest one on our station "Arsenalna", which is the deepest metro station in the world 105,5 m. @elonmusk — Kyiv Metro (@kyivmetroalerts) February 9, 2018

lifecell launched "mobile money" - customers can pay for services using the mobile balance.  lifecell launches a payment portal, preparing for mobile payments, and the subsidiary company Paycell received the status of a financial company in Ukraine.  Until today, the possibility of paying for services using the funds on the phone account was available to the subscribers of the Kyivstar operator within the framework of the Mobile Money service and Vodafone subscribers using the Vodafone Pay service

The team of ex-developers S.T.A.L.K.E.R., who now work in the company Vostok Games , create a new project - a post-apocalyptic game called Fear The Wolves .  This is a game in the genre of the "royal battle", a first-person shooter ("royal battle" - a kind of PvP-mechanics, in which the last surviving character wins.) Genre was named after the eponymous Japanese novel). Players in teams or singles are placed in harsh locations of Chernobyl-contaminated radiation. The release of the game is scheduled for this year, on PCs and consoles.

In Ukraine, the educational edition of Sense was launched. The project positions itself as a media about humanities, literature and art.  Sense will publish content in two formats - text materials (articles, interviews) and video lectures. Two courses of video lectures - about the philosophy and life and faith of Jews in the era of Jesus Christ - are already available for viewing.

Uber is preparing to launch its own food delivery service in Ukraine, looking for the head of the project.  The company Uber is looking for an employee to the position of general manager for his service delivery of food UberEATS in Kiev. UberEATS is a platform for delivery of food from local restaurants, launched in 2014. In the application, the user accesses the restaurant menu, can select food and pay for the order. For users it is an opportunity to order food, for drivers - to earn on its delivery (not necessarily by car, it can be a motorcycle, a bicycle, etc.). The service usually promises delivery within half an hour. Recall, at the end of last year, Uber announced the launch in Kiev of a new service uberVAN, intended for users who need a more spacious car - for example, for small companies.