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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi on Dec 28 signed a new law which would provide criminal liability for cross-border smuggling.

Text of a draft law posted on the website of Ukraine's parliament late on Monday proposed lowering the age of those who can be mobilized for combat duty to 25 from 27. The proposed change comes as Ukraine's 22-month-old battle against Russia drags on. On Sunday, Ukraine and Russia exchanged claims over downed military aircraft, and on Monday Ukraine denied Russia's claim that its forces had seized the regional centre Maryinka in eastern Ukraine.

The new food waste law in Spain obliges hospitality venues, legally, to provide a “doggy bag” to enable consumers to take their leftover food home, rather than it going to waste. However, the Tax Agency, through the General Directorate of Taxes, has issued a binding response to a consultation made by an association that brings

Corruption is an extraordinary crime that inhibit development, damages the nation's economy, and also makes people suffer. Therefore, the Indonesian President Jokowi urge

Ukreximbank has been operating without a supervisory board for over six months. Despite the fact the Cabinet of Ministers appointed the new independent members of Ukreximbank’s supervisory board on May 30, the same ordinance of the Cabinet appears to have blocked the board’s work. According to that ordinance, independent members serve for three years from the date on which all independent members officially assume their roles.

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Ukraine's parliament adopted an updated draft law on national minorities to implement the latest recommendations by the Council of Europe, lawmakers reported on Dec. 8.

NV’s sources believe that the reform of Ukraine’s Economic Security Bureau (ESB) will begin in 3-6 months. However, the Bankova (colloquial term for the President’s Office, after the street in Kyiv it is located on) plans to implement its own approach: to turn the bureau into a superior state body that will even control the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) in the economic component of investigations.

“I know a lot of guys who lost their legs or arms and turned to cannabis,” a French soldier fighting for Ukraine told the Kyiv Independent, speaking anonymously to avoid backlash. Ukraine could have as many as four million veterans when the war is over. A group of lawmakers, backed by President Volodymyr Zelensky, are pushing to legalize medical marijuana as a way to treat the growing number of soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

The proposed law, which was seen by correspondents of the Russian state news agency TASS, would prohibit “hindering the activities of Russian public authorities” as well as “discrediting the external and internal state policies of Russia, public bodies, and their officials in any form.”