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Mister "Pelmen". How a lawyer found himself in cookery
During the coronavirus epidemic, many people lost their jobs. But the lockdown, oddly enough, gave them a chance to start their own business. Our protagonist, having two degrees, could have worked as a lawyer or a marketing specialist, but he began making dumplings (or pelmeni) and founded his own brand.
In June, journalist Denys Bihus published the so-called "Medvedchuk tapes", from which it follows that Medvedchuk, in conversations with the leadership of Gazprom, promised to support ex-President Petro Poroshenko in addressing gas problems. It follows from the context of the conversation of the Opposition Platform—For Life (OPFL) leader that back in 2014 he could establish a new RosUkrEnergo that would deal with the supply of Russian gas to Ukraine at prices much higher than market prices. Medchedchuk himself says that Poroshenko is helping him. How he instructed the leadership of Naftogaz to lobby for Moscow's interests during the talks. Whether there was such an instruction to the then head of Naftogaz, Andriy Kobolyev did not comment to Denys Bihus. However, Kobolyev spoke about this in an interview with 
, and also disclosed details and assessed the results of the gas talks in 2014.
New tourism. How to vacation in a tree house
Closed borders encourage Ukrainians to look for new places for vacation in their native country, and the owners of the tourism business—to come up with something interesting. For instance, an unusual guesthouse was recently opened near Kyiv. This is not just a house in the forest, but a hut on a tree.
Fish farm near Kyiv: how black caviar is produced in Ukraine
An enterprise operates near Kyiv, where fish from the sturgeons is farmed and black caviar is produced from them. Yuri Yaremenko, CEO at the research and production agricultural enterprise Bester, spoke about how the fish farm works in the story of ’s partner—the program Persha Shpalta.