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the Brovary District Prosecutor's Office issued a suspicion notice to a lawyer for attacking the cameraman of the journalist investigation program "Skhemy" (Radio Liberty) Borys Trotsenko in Chabany (Kyiv region) in March of 2019
This was announced by the Kyiv Regional Prosecutor's Office and the Department for the Protection of Society and State Interests of the National Police of Ukraine
The lawyer is suspected of deliberately beating a journalist because of their professional activities (Part 2 of Article 345-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine)
the "Skhemy" cameraman had been filming the premises of the village council in Chabany
The lawyer attacked the cameraman and hit the video camera
doctors diagnosed him with a possible concussion
The issue of choosing a measure of restraint is currently being resolved
As IMI reported, on March 6, 2019, while filming in Chabany village, Kyiv region, the filming crew of the "Skhemy: Corruption in Detail" program, consisting of journalist Kateryna Kaplyuk and cameraman Borys Trotsenko, was attacked
The incident took place at the Chabany village council
The man injured the cameraman and broke the video camera
doctors diagnosed Borys Trotsenko with a concussion
In July 2020, the police dropped the case for the obstruction of the work of "Skhemy" journalists
They were attacked in the spring of 2019 in the village of Chabany in the Kyiv region during the filming of a story about the allocation of state land managed by the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine to private owners
The police stated that reason for dropping the case was "the expiration of the pre-trial investigation period." "Skhemy's" lawyers were going to contest the decision
proceedings were opened on the grounds of a criminal offense under Part 2 of Art
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Epicenter plans to open the Bucha Gallery shopping center with a total area of 97,000 sq. m in Bucha on Novoe Shosse Street, 1. Its rental area will be 66,000 sq. m. m, and parking – 1052 sq. m. It is also planned to open 10 restaurants there.
The company also announced the name of another shopping center with a rental gallery, which will open near Kiev - the Green Gallery shopping center. It will be located in the village of Chabany and will become the first shopping center for the company. The name has not yet been approved and may change, the Epicenter press service noted.
The main “anchors” of the shopping center on Odesskoe Highway will be the food supermarket Food Market (2860 sq. m), children's entertainment center (3100 sq. m), Intersport (1400 sq. m), electronics and household appliances store “TseTe” (1470 sq. m.) m), home goods and decor store "Deco Galleries" (1840 sq. m), children's store E.PIC (500 sq. m), as well as household services "Multiservice" and "House of Water", "Pharmacy 100+" and etc.
The goal of the project is to combine as much as possible the space of the rental gallery and the area where the conceptual departments of the Epicenter network are located.
The total area of two shopping centers Bucha Gallery and Green Gallery with rental galleries, which should open in the Kyiv region in 2024, will be 193,000 sq. m. m.
In 2023, Epicenter managed to open two large shopping centers: in Lviv (90,000 sq. m) and Kyiv (30,000 sq. m). Investments in them amounted to UAH 2.9 billion and UAH 1.8 billion, respectively. As of October 2023, the retailer operates 74 shopping centers, including New Line hypermarkets.
As of mid-November 2023, Epicenter has 73 shopping centers and 51 Intersport sports stores. The total retail area of all shopping centers is more than 1.7 million square meters. m, and the total area of logistics facilities is 172,000 sq. m. m.
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The Republic of Madagascar has become the 20th country to sign the Tripartite Free Trade Agreement
The agreement brings together three regional economic communities-COMESA
EAC and SADC- into a single free trade area
The Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) constitutes 57% of Africa’s population with a combined GDP of US$1.3 trillion as of 2015
making it one of the largest free trade areas in the world
The Tripartite Agreement was signed on Thursday 13th July 2017 by His Excellency Mahafaly Solonandrasana Olivier
Prime Minister of the Republic of Madagascar
who represented the Secretary General of the East African Community and the current Chairperson of the Tripartite Task Force
Minister of Industry and Private Sector representing the Minister of Trade and Consumption of the Republic of Madagascar; the Counsel to the Community
Kafumbe Mukasa; senior Government Officials; representatives of the Private Sector; Their Excellencies the Ambassadors of Mauritius and South Africa; as well as the Ambassador designate of the Republic of Madagascar to the African Union
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The Republic of South Africa became the 19th country to sign the Tripartite Free Trade Agreement during the 6th meeting of the Tripartite Sectoral Ministerial Committee of on Trade
Economic Matters and Home/Internal Affairs (TSMC) held on 7 July 2017 in Kampala
At the 6th meeting of the Tripartite Sectoral Ministerial Committee
the Secretary General of the East African Community
Liberat Mfumukeko reported that 18 Member/Partner States had signed the Agreement and that Egypt was the only country to have ratified it
A total of 14 ratifications are required for the Agreement to enter force
Liberat Mfumukeko informed the meeting that South Africa and Madagascar were ready to sign the Agreement and encouraged the remaining countries to follow suit
South Africa subsequently signed the Agreement in Kampala
the Secretary General reported progress on the legal scrubbing of Annexes II
negotiations on tariff offers and the signature and ratification of the Agreement
Mfumukeko indicated that there had been limited progress on Phase II negotiations and the Agreement on the Movement of Business Persons
studies on Phase II issues had been undertaken and disseminated and that TTF was in the process of mobilizing resources to facilitate the necessary consultative meetings
stated that the intra-Tripartite trade was only 19% of the continent’s $930 billion total trade and this could be attributed to low industrialization
poor infrastructure and high dependency on the export of unprocessed commodities
The Minister observed that the Tripartite provided the opportunities to unlock the enormous trade and investment potential of the bloc
the business community was waiting anxiously towards the opening up of the market of over 600 million people
She further observed that almost all the Annexes had been finalized save for the built in agenda
South Africa’s Minister of Trade and Industry
Rob Davies observed that the outstanding Annexes had been concluded and highlighted the need to have a functional FTA that would benefit the business community
He noted that the TFTA was a building block for the Continental FTA
hence the need to make more progress in the TFTA negotiations
The Kampala meeting was attended by delegates from Angola
At the 1st Tripartite Summit of Heads of State and Government held in Kampala in October
2008 leaders of 26 African countries met and took a bold step to establish the largest trading arrangement in Africa
The 3rd Tripartite Summit of Heads of State and Government signed the Tripartite Free Trade Area (FTA) Agreement on 10thJune
The Agreement was expected to come into force 30 days after 14 Tripartite Member/Partner States deposit instruments of ratification
The Tripartite Summit also signed the Sharm el Sheikh Declaration launching the Tripartite FTA and commencement of Phase II of the Tripartite negotiations and adopted a Tripartite FTA Post Signature Implementation Roadmap
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