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9% on Dividends, Not Profit: The Corporate Tax Diia City Companies Can Choose
Resident companies of Diia City, Ukraine's legal regime for IT companies, can choose to pay 9% on money leaving the company, such as dividends, instead of the standard 18% corporate tax on profit. Salary and remuneration for people working there is taxed at 5% income tax up to the equivalent of 240,000 euros a year. This article explains the two systems and their conditions, based on the provisions of the Tax Code.
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2,902 Ukrainians Have Evacuated to Japan; 1,931 Are Living There Now
Since March 2022, 2,902 people have entered Japan counted as “Ukrainian evacuees,” and 1,931 remain in Japan as of the end of August 2026 (preliminary figures from the Immigration Services Agency). Three in four arrived in the first ten months, and about 70% are women. They now live across 44 prefectures. Since complementary protection began, the breakdown of statuses of residence has also changed substantially.
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Five Rounds of Cost Estimates for Reconstruction, from $348.5 Billion to $587.7 Billion
The “Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment (RDNA),” compiled jointly by the World Bank, the Government of Ukraine, the European Commission and the United Nations, has been published five times since 2022. The amount needed for reconstruction and recovery over the next ten years has grown from $348.5 billion in the first edition to $587.7 billion in the fifth. This article looks at what the damage, loss, and needs figures each actually count, along with the breakdown by sector and oblast.
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Customer Service in 18 Months, Local Newspapers in 5 Years: Ukraine’s Staggered State Language Law
Ukraine's State Language Law, adopted in 2019, did not take full effect all at once on the day it entered into force. Customer service in shops takes effect 18 months later, print newspapers 2.5 years and 5 years later, and the language of exams in 2030 — the timing is staggered field by field. This article also covers how the 2012 language law was found unconstitutional, the fine mechanism, and the treatment of minority languages, which drew criticism from Europe.
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Hire Two More People, Your Rate Drops to 5%: Ukraine’s “5-7-9” SME Loan Program
Since 2020, Ukraine's government has run a loan program in which the state shoulders part of the interest on money small and medium enterprises borrow from banks. It is known as “5-7-9” because it brings the rate a company actually pays down to 5%, 7% or 9%. Drawing on the wording of the Cabinet of Ministers' resolution, this article explains how the rate is set and the special provisions added after the full-scale invasion.
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Right Now, the Japanese Embassy in Kyiv Does Not Handle Passports
As of September 2026, the Embassy of Japan in Ukraine, in Kyiv, is not issuing passports or certificates, and only accepts visa applications for short-term business and family visits. The Embassy of Ukraine in Tokyo operates by reservation, and requires men aged 18 to 60 to present an electronic military-registration document. This article lines up what each embassy's counter can and cannot do.
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In a Country Where Power Plants Keep Being Targeted, Electricity Gets Made in Small Pieces
Russia has repeatedly attacked Ukraine's power plants and grid since 2022. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), generating capacity that stood at roughly 38 gigawatts before the full-scale invasion had fallen to 12 gigawatts by spring 2024. Capacity restored through repairs was lost again in attacks over the winter of 2025–26. This article tracks, in numbers, the shift from large power plants toward gas generators and batteries spread across many sites.
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Both Translate Literally as “Orthodox Church of Ukraine”: OCU, UOC, and the 2024 Law
Ukraine has two churches whose names both translate literally as "Orthodox Church of Ukraine": the OCU, granted independence from Constantinople in 2019, and the UOC, which has long belonged to the Moscow Patriarchate. This article traces the story from the 2018 decision revoking an 1686 letter to the proceedings against the UOC's Kyiv Metropolitanate under the 2024 law.
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Ten Years Without Buying Russian Gas: Where Does Ukraine’s Gas Come From Now?
Ukraine's state gas company Naftogaz has not purchased gas from Russia since November 25, 2015. Today its gas comes mainly from domestic production, with the shortfall bought from Europe and stored underground for winter use. The contract carrying Russian gas to Europe through Ukraine also expired, on January 1, 2025.
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Demining Machines, Rails, Generators: What JICA Has Sent to Ukraine
JICA's grant aid to Ukraine has come to 6 projects since 2023, totaling more than ¥110.3 billion. About 20 Japanese-made demining machines and about 215 kilometers' worth of rails have been delivered. This article lines up the types and content of these projects, including ¥78 billion in budget support and a ¥471.9 billion ERA loan to be repaid from proceeds on frozen Russian assets.