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[W:855]interesting images

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Border Guard at a checkpoint on the border with Romania.
 
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This is the new Podilsky-Voskresensky Bridge being constructed over the Dnieper River to connect the right and left banks of Kyiv. This will be the sixth bridge for traffic over the Dnieper. It will be the largest
arched bridge in Europe and have six lanes of traffic and two rapid transit train tracks. It will be finished by the end of 2020.
 
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A Dialectical Map of the Ukrainian Language as of 1871. The blue and yellow denotes the borders of Ukraine today.
The red lines indicate the areas in which Ukraine was the predominant language in 1871.
 
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Ukrzaliznytsia (Ukraine State Railway) is negotiating to purchase 40 new American Locomotives in 2020.
 
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Welsh linguist and journalist Gareth Jones circa 1933. In March of 1933, he slipped into Ukraine from Soviet Russia and was horrified at the mass starvation he witnessed. Returning to Berlin at
the beginning of April, he began writing dispatches for The Manchester Guardian and the New York Evening Post about what would become known as the Holodomor. He was the first person to
alert the world about what was happening in Ukraine. Mr. Jones was found assassinated by three gunshot wounds in China on 17 August of 1935. Many believe it was the work of the NKVD as
revenge for the embarrassment he had caused the Soviet regime.
 
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Today is the 175th birthday of Ukrainian physicist Ivan Pulyui (1845–1918) shown above with his wife Catherine and children. In 1886 at the Higher Technical School
in Prague, Pulyui discovered the X-ray. Ternopil Ivan Puliuy National Technical University is named after him, as are streets in Lviv, Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Dnipro, and Prague.
 
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Ukraine has one of the lowest property tax rates in Europe. Property taxes only account for 3% of city revenues. Unlike in most countries, the property tax rate in Ukraine is based on the
size of the property (and a % of your earnings) rather than the property market value. Regardless of its real size, the max property size is capped at 300 square meters for apartments
and 500 square meters for houses. The highest annual property tax one can pay for the largest house is roughly $1,000, and it matters not if the property is located in an exclusive Kyiv
neighborhood or in a rural village. This arcane system needs to be reformed to collect more revenue. The personal/corporate tax system in now being reformed which will lower tax rates
for individuals and employers.
 
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After refitting with various detection new systems and a period of testing, this Ukraine Navy intelligence ship is now ready for duty. The Lahuna is 1,220 tons with a crew of 29 and can stay at sea
for 29 days. What I know is that it has a Melchior radio-intelligence station operating in the passive radar mode. The advantage of this station over other RTR models is that it is able to accurately
capture the location of ships, aircraft or coastal objects while remaining undetected. After a new paint job, her playground will be the Black Sea.
 
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No one should be lulled into complacency because Russia signed a 5 year gas-transit agreement with Ukraine. Moscow will of course break this business agreement whenever the gas-transit-to-Europe
situation favors such an illegal action. The contract stipulates that any disputes will be settled at the International Chamber of Commerce in Zurich (ICC). The contract is governed by Swedish substantive law.
 
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33 y.o. military medic Klaudia Sytnik was KIA on February 1 near Novotoshkivskoy in Luhansk oblast.
Claudia was born on February 25, 1986 in the village of Zachepilovka near Kharkiv. She was killed by
mortar shrapnel while delivering medicine to a wounded comrade. Called up in 2017, she first served
in the 54th Mechanized Brigade. She later transferred to the 93rd Separate Mechanized Brigade as a
sergeant. She leaves behind a 10 y.o. daughter and a younger sister.
 
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