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  Chornomorka restaurants have grown into a chain in seven countries. How Crimean Olha Kopylova turned her love for the Black Sea into a business — an interview

  Starting with a single Kyiv restaurant in 2013, Crimean native Olha Kopylova and her husband pioneered Black Sea seafood in the Ukrainian capital. Over twelve years, she built...

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  “I deliver great mood, sex and warm memories.” Taras Horobets moved from Vovchansk to Ecuador and sells flowers from mountain plantations to the whole world

  Taras Horobets hails from Vovchansk, a city in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region. During his tenth year of school , he spent a year in Quito, the capital of Ecuador, which...

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  Gunia Project: the Ukrainian brand that became an international sensation and appeared in the Netflix series Emily in Paris. How the founders did it — in the interview

  Maria Gavryluk and Natalia Kamenska are young Ukrainian designers. Natalia previously co-founded the clothing brand Lake Studio , where Maria began her career as an assistant...

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  Expolight from Dnipro Made Ukrainian Lighting Famous Worldwide. How? Co-founder Mykola Kabluka Explains

  At 47, Mykola Kabluka from Dnipro turned a borrowed $600 into Expolight, a company delivering multimillion-dollar projects around the world. He launched the business in 2000...

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  Resist.UA Fund unites promising military-tech companies and investors ready to commit capital. The fund’s partners explain how it works and where to invest

  The shortage of artillery shells is pushing Ukraine to focus on domestic production of ammunition and drones. According to the Ministry of Digital Transformation, about...

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  Supporting Ukrainian kids far from home: how author Halyna Budilova built Little Beetle Press in Ireland

  On August 28, 2022, in the heart of Dublin, at the Smock Alley Theatre , Ukrainian writer Halyna Budilova presented her latest book, The Sunflower Lion . This bilingual ...

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  Alla Lopatkina built a multi-million-dollar logistics company in the United States. Now she is helping Ukraine, leading businesses out of crisis, and searching for a new self. Here is her story

  Forty-six-year-old Alla Lopatkina from the Ivano-Frankivsk region has never been afraid to take risks. At just 19, she turned her boyfriend’s bar into a restaurant and a few...

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  “You don’t have to be a notary if you don’t want to be.” How Bohdan Bondarenko went from teaching legal theory to building electric guitars

  Bohdan Bondarenko, a Kyiv native, fell in love with law back in high school. He enrolled in a financial-law lyceum and later in  Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv ,...