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Ukraine is interested in implementing promising investment projects in the maritime sector in cooperation with American business.

Infrastructure Minister Kryklii said this during a webinar dedicated to the Maritime Infrastructure Modernization Program in Ukraine, which took place under the auspices of the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, the press service of the Infrastructure Ministry reports.

"We are open to investors and the implementation of promising investment projects in the maritime industry in cooperation with American business and are happy to invite you to invest in Ukraine," he said.

The infrastructure minister informed about the successful experience of implementing the first concession projects in the ports of Olvia and Kherson. According to him, the ministry is planning to implement next concessions in the industry.

"We are currently in the process of preparing concession projects in the seaports of Berdiansk, Izmail and Mariupol. We are also preparing a project of the concession for a passenger terminal in the Odesa Sea Port, the concession of a railway and ferry complex and a container terminal in the Black Sea port, he said.

The event was attended by U.S. Charg d'Affaires in Ukraine Kristina Kvien, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State for Trade Policy David de Falco, SPILNO Project Office Chair Taras Boychuk, Director of the Infrastructure Support Team Iryna Koshel, and representatives of the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, EBRD, US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), U.S. Export-Import Bank, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, ADM Ukraine LLC, AVELLUM, Baker & McKenzie, Aon Ukraine, CHS Ukraine LLC and other companies.

The participants in the event also discussed the possible participation of American business representatives in the implementation of promising public-private partnership projects in the road sector.

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LONDON (Reuters) - Ukraines top prosecutor said on Friday investigations into Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings Ltd, a matter closely tied to a scandal that led to former U.S. President Donald Trumps first impeachment, have been closed with no plans to reopen them.

FILE PHOTO: Prosecutor General of Ukraine Iryna Venediktova reacts during a parliamentary session in Kiev, Ukraine March 17, 2020. Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY./File Photo

Ukrainian prosecutors in recent years had looked into the actions of Burisma, a company on whose board U.S. President Joe Bidens son Hunter had served from 2014 to 2019, and its founder Mykola Zlochevsky.

Everything that prosecutors could do, they have done, Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova said in an interview with Reuters by video link from Kyiv. This is why I dont see any possibilities (or) necessity to come back to these cases.

Venediktova also said U.S. authorities had made no requests of her office since Biden took office last month.

The U.S. House of Representatives impeached Trump in December 2019 on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress over his request in a July 2019 phone call to Ukraines president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, for an investigation into Biden and his son Hunter. The U.S. Senate voted in February 2020 to keep Trump in office.

Trump made unsubstantiated corruption allegations against both Bidens. U.S. Democrats accused Trump, a Republican, of soliciting foreign interference in an American election by trying to get a vulnerable ally to smear a domestic political rival, using American aid as leverage. Biden defeated Trump in the November U.S. election.

As vice president under President Barack Obama, Biden oversaw U.S. policy toward Ukraine and sought the removal of the countrys top prosecutor at the time, who the United States and Western European countries had viewed as corrupt or ineffective. Trump and his allies made unsubstantiated claims that Biden did so because the prosecutor had been looking into Burisma while his son served on the board.

Zlochevsky, a former Ukraine ecology minister, is now living abroad.

One Burisma probe had related to suspected tax violations. Burisma said in 2017 investigations into the company and Zlochevsky had been closed after it paid an additional 180 million hryvnias ($6.46 million) in taxes.

Venediktova, in her post for just under a year, said she wants to take a different approach in her job than predecessors she described as being too political.

Asked about Ukraines fight against corruption, Venediktova dismissed concerns that the independence of the national anti-corruption bureau, known as NABU, had been undermined after the government drafted new legislation on its status that the bureau said would harm its ability to fight high-level graft.

NABU is now an independent body and will be an independent body in future, Venediktova said.

Corruption has been a longstanding issue for Ukraine, and any threat to the independence of NABU, set up with the backing of Western donors, could further derail the flow of foreign aid at a time when its economy has been hammered by lockdowns related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The International Monetary Fund has told Ukraine it needs to adopt more reforms to unlock further funds from its $5 billion IMF programme.

Venediktova also said she is hopeful that legal cases surrounding PrivatBank would come to a conclusion before the end of the year. The central bank declared PrivatBank insolvent in 2016 and said its poor lending practices blew a $5.5 billion hole in its finances before it was taken into state hands. The lenders former owners dispute this and have fought to reverse the nationalisation.

($1 = 27.8492 hryvnias)

Reporting by Karin Strohecker in London and Matthias Williams in Kyiv; Additional reporting by Mark Hosenball in Washington; Editing by Will Dunham

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The Sectoral Sanctions are effective for a period of five years and include, in particular, the following restrictions:

Because the Sectoral Sanctions have been applied for the first time in Ukraine since the approval of the Sanctions Law in 2014, we anticipate further official clarifications and a new enforcement practice from the Ukrainian authorities clarifying the exact scope of the application of the Sectoral Sanctions.

We recommend that Ukrainian residents and foreign companies doing business in Ukraine carefully assess any dealings involving Nicaragua for their compliance with the Ukrainian sanctions restrictions.

1.Resolution of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine No. 1167-IX dated 2 February 2021 On Approval of the Decision of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine dated 1 February 2021 On Imposing Sectoral Special Economic and Other Restrictive Measures (Sanctions) against the Republic of Nicaragua' effective from 4 February 2021.

2. Law of Ukraine On Sanctions No. 1644-VII dated 14 August 2014 (Sanctions Law).

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As Black History Month comes to its end, the Virtual Tour Series Civil Rights from Reconstruction to Right Now, co-sponsored by Yale Alumni Academy and Yale Alumni College, concluded with its last installment highlighting the Daughters of the Movement, a podcast and speaker series featuring daughters of civil rights activists, on Feb. 25.

Professor of African American studies Crystal Feimster hosted a conversation Thursday night with speakers who lived on the front lines of the African American Civil Rights Movement. At the end of the conversation, the audience of over 200 Yale students, alumni, faculty and members of the general public, had the opportunity to ask the Daughters questions about their stories.

Yale Alumni Academys Black History Month series has been superb, and the Daughters of the Movement event is the perfect capstone, YAA Executive Director Weili Cheng 77 wrote in an email to the News. The YAA has been fortunate to feature so many remarkable speakers and presenters in our programming, including Yales outstanding faculty professors like Crystal Feimster.

The guest speakers included the daughters of civil rights activists such as Gina Belafonte, the daughter of Harry and Julie Belafonte; Suzanne Kay, the daughter of Diahann Caroll; Hasna Muhammad, daughter of Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis Hasna; Stacy Renae Lynch, daughter of Bill Lynch; Dominique Sharpton, daughter of Al Sharpton; Ilyasah Shabazz, daughter of Malcolm X; and Keisha Sutton-James, granddaughter of Percy Sutton.

According to Senior Director of Lifelong Learning and Travel at the YAA, Lauren Summers, the event was meant to serve as a dynamic forum for communication, connection and learning for the love of learning. Summers noted that the YAA and YAC came up with the idea for a virtual tour to allow audiences to connect with the history of civil rights from Reconstruction to now through the lens of Yale. The event was available free of charge to all Yale students and faculty.

The Civil Rights from Reconstruction to Right Now virtual tour has been one of the most popular programs on the YAAs website, with upwards of 2,000 visitors over the past month, Summers said.

The speakers are all of different ages and lead in different fields of activism,ranging from politics to education to film, yet are united by intertwined legacies. Lynch said that she came up with the idea to form this sisterhood amongst the Daughters to connect with women of similar experiences in relation to African American history.

All the Daughters were raised in households with similar teachings of valuing African American culture and similar experiences as well as shared the importance of self-love with the audience. According to Sharpton, many of the Daughters were unaware of controversy surrounding their parents work and have had to learn to have similar strength and solidarity in their activism.

I never really saw [my parents] shape to the controversy of what was going on because they were grounded in faith, and they instilled that in us from a very young age, Sharpton told the audience. That we are not only representing ourselves but we are representing a generation of people and we are representing the victory and promise of progress.

Shabazz added that it is through self-love and sisterhood that they are able to build on their parents work. She said, in her eyes the mentality that the Daughters have is lets control our narrative and make sure that America gives liberty and justice for all.

Full biographies of the guest speakers are available online.

Eda Aker | eda.aker@yale.edu

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Black Greek-letter sororities and fraternities have been a pivotal part of African American history and culture since the early 20th century. Launched on the campuses of historically black colleges, these organizations have been a central resource for support and service in the educational advancement and strengthening of social bonds among black students, entrepreneurs and professionals, especially when the organizations expanded to majority white institutions of higher learning. Also, they were a way to combat racism, as many campus organization memberships were exclusionary to students and professionals of color.

The pioneer black Greek-letter organizations have become known as the Divine Nine, and among their ranks have been some of the most influential leaders of color in healthcare, fashion, business, global affairs, politics and more.

Among the ranks of black fraternities are leaders from W.E.B. DuBois; Martin Luther King Jr. and Al Sharpton to Hill Harper, Al Roker, Emmitt Smith, Robert Johnson, and hundreds of thousands more. And the sororities boast an impressive roster of sorors as well, from Vice President Kamala Harris, First Lady Michelle Obama, Shirley Chisholm, and Loretta Lynch to Nikki Giovanni, Soledad OBrien, MC Lyte, and many more.

The National Pan-Hellenic Council Inc. (NPHC), formed on the campus of Howard University on May 10, 1930, is a collective of the nine pioneering black Greek-letter organizations: Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc., Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., and Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.

Since these nine were started and incorporated, membership has spread globally, with chapters in Asia, the Caribbean, Europe and Africa. Their impact is also widespread professionally and financially, as they have contributed millions to uplift communities, send students to college via scholarships and support professionals in both corporate America and entrepreneurship via mentorship and sponsorship.

Alpha Phi Alpha is the oldest fraternity, founded in 1906, followed by Kappa Alpha Psi and Omega Psi Phi in 1911, Phi Beta Sigma in 1914 and Iota Phi Theta Fraternity in 1963. Among the sororities, Alpha Kappa Alpha is the oldest, founded in 1908, followed by Delta Sigma Theta Sorority in 1913, Zeta Phi Beta in 1920 and Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. in 1922.

Since the Divine Nine have been founded and incorporated, other black Greek-letter organizations have followed, and though they are not part of the Pan-Hellic Council, they have been vital in their impact of promoting service, scholarship, and fellowship among students and professionals of color around the world as well. These organizations include sororities such as the National Sorority of Phi Delta Kappa, Inc., founded in 1923 for educators; Gamma Phi Delta Sorority, Inc., an affiliate organization of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) founded in 1942; Zeta Delta Phi founded 1962 at Bronx Community College, and fraternities such as Sigma Phi Rho, chartered at Wagner College; Delta Psi Chi, founded in 1985 at University of WisconsinMilwaukee; and Nu Gamma Alpha, which was founded on Howards University Campus in 1962.

The pioneer black Greek-letter organizations have become known as the Divine Nine, and among their ranks have been some of the most influential leaders of color in healthcare, fashion, business, global affairs, POLITICS AND MORE.

Submitted by Rosetta Brown, Proud member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc

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