In the first three months of 2025, the share of NPLs in the banking sector decreased to 28.6%, which is 1.7 percentage points lower than at the beginning of the year and 8.8 percentage points lower than at the start of 2024 (37.4%). For the first time since 2022, this…
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Russian Conscripts Can’t Be Sent Into Battle. This One Was. And He’s Not Happy About It.
In December 2023, along with tens of thousands of other 18-year-old men, Aleksandr, from the Siberian city of Ulan-Ude, was called up for mandatory military service in the Russian armed forces.
Four months later, and nearly 7,000 kilometers to the west, he found himself digging foxholes and…
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Ukraine’s subsoil agreement with the US: How many dormant licenses are there in Ukraine, and what resources can be extracted?
As reported by the State Service of Geology and Subsoil, of the special permits for subsoil use issued in Ukraine, 154 are deemed dormant – indicating that less than 1% of the mineral reserves’ balance has been utilized over the past decade. This accounts for under…
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More than a third of Ukrainian bank deposits are held in foreign currency, despite their lower profitability.
According to the NBU, as of April 1 ₴1.392T was held in banks and protected by the Deposit Guarantee Fund (DGF). Since the start of the year, this amount has hardly changed (+₴0.6B). Meanwhile, in 60 banks participating in the DGF, there were 70.4 million deposits…
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Due to the war, Dragon Capital’s real estate portfolio was reduced by 200,000 square meters, with losses amounting to nearly $65M.
The largest investment company in Ukraine currently holds approximately 600,000 square meters in its real estate portfolio, down from its peak of 800,000 square meters, said Tomasz Fiala, the founder and CEO of Dragon Capital. He noted that since 2016, the company had…
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The Science-Backed Sweet Spot For Sleep And Why It Matters
UNITED STATES – FEBRUARY 01: By Trillium (Photo by Karen Radkai/Conde Nast via Getty Images)
We live in a culture that rewards overachievement but often overlooks the importance of rest. But here’s the truth: sleep is not a luxury. It’s a biologically encoded…
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The European Commission has revised its economic forecast for Ukraine, lowering its GDP growth prediction for 2025 from 2.8% in November to 2%.
This adjustment is attributed to ongoing war pressures that severely impact production capacity and business confidence. For 2026, the GDP growth forecast has been decreased from 5.9% to 4.7%. A decline in exports is expected, driven by decreasing industrial output,…
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