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Carl Vikingsson, President and CEO at Sigma Technology Group, has been appointed the first Honorary Consul of Ukraine in Western and Southern Sweden.

After years of fruitful cooperation with Ukraine, Carl Vikingsson, President and CEO at Sigma Technology Group, becomes the first Honorary Consul of Ukraine in Western and Southern Sweden, to continue developing cooperation between the countries, the press service of the Embassy of Ukraine in the Kingdom of Sweden informs.

The Honorary Consul of Ukraine in Gothenburg, Sweden, will fulfill the consular functions in consular districts Vstra Gtaland, Skne, Halland, Jnkping, Kronoberg, and Blekinge Counties.

The establishment of the Honorary Consulate of Ukraine in Gothenburg headed by Carl Vikingsson opens new possibilities to help our two countries grow together and shows further dedication of Sigma Group to support business ties with Ukraine. Sigma Technologys office in Gothenburg will become a space for collaboration on consular affairs and for discussion of ways to make Sweden and Ukraine even closer, the statement reads.

Olena Polunina, Charg d'Affaires a.i., Embassy of Ukraine in Sweden, congratulated Vikingsson on the appointment, saying that his valuable knowledge and practical experience in cooperation with Ukraine as well as heartfelt love to the country is a ground base for further successful work.

In turn, Vikingsson said he would continue to contribute to the development of cooperation between the two countries.

During our cooperation with the Ukrainian team, we have succeeded in building an ecosystem that promotes close relationships between Sigma Group companies, tech universities, and clients. Ukrainians are eager to develop and innovate, they are result-oriented and dedicated partners, which is important for the success of the business. Im determined to continue our endeavors in fostering the startup and entrepreneurship in Ukraine and creating the basis for a prolific partnership on both sides, Carl Vikingsson said.

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The official HSK Zrinjski Supporters Club declined to comment for this story or help BIRN approach any Zrinjski Ultras.

The only Ultra who agreed to speak was Vlado Savic, one of the original founders of the Supporters Club. Zrinjski means everything to me, he said.

Savic blamed the far-right graffiti that has scarred Mostar on outsiders.

The guys in charge of graffiti have nothing to do with that, he said. People come from elsewhere and intentionally do that to defame us, make us look bad.

But in his home, where he was under house arrest after being convicted of armed robbery, BIRN saw a photo of Savic and another man making what appears to be a Nazi salute. Similar photos on Facebook show Savic making the same salute. He denied it was a Nazi salute, saying it was simply a gesture Zrinjski supporters make when they sing the club song.

In the neighbourhood around Savics home, not far from the supporters club, far-right hate symbols are hard to miss, from the Celtic cross, a signature of the Zrinjski fans, to 14/88, swastikas and phrases declaring that the fascist WWII-era Independent State of Croatia, NDH, will come again.

The hate graffiti also adorns Mostars Partisan Cemetery, where Communist partisans who fought the Nazis during WWII are buried.

Every February 14, visitors to the cemetery mark the anniversary of the towns liberation from fascism in 1945. In 2015, on the 70th anniversary, they were met with projectiles and insults hurled by a group of what one participant in the commemoration, Stefica Galic, described as neo-Nazis.

Authorities at the time said three people had been arrested, but that has not stopped such incidents from repeating every year, said Galic.

They stand over the road, waiting, she told BIRN. Zrinjski supporters have some premises across the road from the Partisan Cemetery and they were already waiting there.

The local interior ministry said those involved in the intimidation had been identified and prosecuted, but did not identify them when asked to do so by BIRN.

Michael Colborne contributed to this article from Kyiv, Ukraine.

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The results of an audit of the Ukrainian economy and the vectors of economic development drafted by the government should become the basis for the creation of Ukraine's National Economic Strategy until 2030, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.

He said this in his speech at the presentation of the country's economic audit in Kyiv on Friday, November 6, according to an Ukrinform correspondent.

"Based on the audit and vectors, we are waiting for the appearance of the National Economic Strategy until 2030. I know that the government has already begun to work actively on this, involving many experts, business representatives, the public, international analysts, and scientists," Zelensky said.

According to him, the strategy should be a master plan and a roadmap for all branches of government in Ukraine, rather than a non-binding declaration.

Zelensky stressed that the strategy should also be widely approved by citizens and be a kind of "economic Constitution of Ukraine, our great national idea."

"It's time to end the practice when public policy is determined by surnames on the doors of government offices, rather than by common values. With every new president, parliament or government, the country begins to invent a new breakthrough. It's time for a new tradition: the surnames of civil servants can and will change, but the vision, philosophy and the global goal of the country are unchanged," he said.

He noted that the audit of the Ukrainian economy is the result of hard and painstaking work. Zelensky recalled that a comprehensive analysis of the state of Ukraine had been made for the first time "to understand exactly what mistakes were made during these years, and where."

"The audit is an analysis of our complexes that frightened us and restrained our movement forward. All of them must be a thing of the past," he added.

He also said that based on the results of the audit, the government would present the main vectors of development of the Ukrainian economy until 2030, which will help clearly understand "where and why Ukraine's economy will move."

Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said at a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers on November 4 that Ukraine's economic breakthrough was an ambitious goal for the government. He also said that for the rapid recovery of the Ukrainian economy, the government had developed a vision of the economic development of the country until 2030. Shmyhal stressed that according to the government's forecasts, the Ukrainian economy will begin to recover from 2021 thanks to public investment and business support.

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Kyiv (ICRC) - The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Peter Maurer completed his five-day visit to Ukraine today. Mr Maurer met the president of Ukraine as well as government and parliament officials and talked to the representatives of the non-government-controlled territories. He also visited either sides of the contact line in the Donbas region, where the ceasefire is holding since late July this year.

The discussions have been focused on the cumulative consequences of the six-year conflict and the COVID-19 pandemic on people and communities on both sides of the contact line in the Donbas.

Mr Maurer addressed the issue of people missing in connection with the conflict and establishment of the Commission on Missing Persons, access to water and health services as well as perspectives on the risks for the population of mines and other unexploded ordinance. The ICRC president has been also seeking for prospects for securing the systematic and unhindered access of the ICRC to all detainees held in connection with the conflict in the Donbas. Furthermore, he reiterated the need for mechanisms to allow safe passage of civilians with urgent humanitarian needs across the line of contact during COVID-19 pandemic.

Water, electricity and gas installations have always been particularly vulnerable in the conflict and the ICRC has been investing many resources in maintaining the water supply systems. Mr Maurer visited one of the filtrations stations of the Voda Donbasa company that supplies water to people living on both sides of the contact line in the Donetsk Region. The ICRC has so far invested over 15.5 million CHF in maintaining and servicing both water supply companies in the Donbas.

The ICRC president also visited construction sites of health facilities on both sides of the contact line. He saw Gorlovka ambulatory and laid the foundation stone to the first Emergency Health Care Department in Ukraine that the ICRC is building in the Bakhmut hospital, which will serve 200,000 people. The ICRC is investing 3.5 million CHF in building the department, equipping it and training its staff.

Support to people caught in the Donbas conflict is ICRC's 8th largest operation in the world. This has been Mr Maurer's third visit to Ukraine as ICRC president. The first took place in February 2015 and the second in March 2017.

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Sanela Bajrambasic, ICRC Ukraine Communication Coordinator, +380 95 262 80 49, https://twitter.com/sbsanelab1

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The city of Kyiv and all regions in Ukraine are not ready to ease quarantine measures introduced to prevent the spread of COVID-19, according to data provided by the Health Ministry on November 6.

The highest incidence rate of COVID-19 during the past 14 days has been recorded in Chernivtsi region (585.5 per 100,000 population), Zhytomyr region (492.5), and Khmelnytskyi region (481.7).

The lowest incidence rate of COVID-19 in the last 14 days has been reported in Kirovohrad region (111.3), Dnipropetrovsk region (146.5), and Luhansk region (182.8).

The incidence rate of COVID-19 in the city of Kyiv is 311.6 per 100,000 population. An average incidence rate across Ukraine is 288.3 per 100,000 population.

The Health Ministry explains that regions with high prevalence of COVID-19 are considered to be regions that have one of the following indicators: the occupancy of beds in health facilities intended for hospitalization of patients with confirmed COVID-19 exceeds 50% during the past five days; the average number of PCR and ELISA tests conducted during the past seven days is less than 24 per 100,000 population; the detection rate of COVID-19 is more than 11%; the growth rate of COVID-19 is more than 10%.

As of November 6, 440,188 COVID-19 cases were laboratory confirmed in Ukraine, including 9,721 cases recorded during the previous day.

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