National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Heavy rain flooded the streets in several districts of Kyiv on June 12, causing significant traffic congestion, delays in public transportation, and power outages throughout the city.

State-owned agricultural enterprises Iskra and Nadezhda were allegedly used as "technical pads" in covert land lease schemes, accumulating losses and transferring profits to private companies through questionable transactions.

The final version of the new Ukrainian spelling may be made public at the end of this year after revision.

Former Minister of Agrarian Policy Mykola Solsky is accused by NABU detectives and SAPO prosecutors of land grabbing, but they do not specify which land.

The attempt to seize land plots that ATO participants received on the basis of free privatization raises questions, at least from a moral point of view.

The Holosiivskyi District Court of Kyiv dismissed the claim of an individual who tried to illegally take possession of the Feofaniya hotel complex worth UAH 454 million, preventing its illegal withdrawal from state ownership.

Ukrainian polar explorers have expanded their research on Antarctic terrestrial organisms, using the Noosphere ship and Ukrainian yachts to reach remote islands along the Antarctic Peninsula, collecting samples and data on vascular plant distribution, microclimate, and freshwater crustaceans.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky met with young scientists, congratulated them on their professional holiday, presented state awards and discussed the government's strategy to encourage young scientists to stay in Ukraine and work for its development and recovery after the war.

Today, on May 18, all art lovers can join the events dedicated to the International Museum Day. The oldest museum in the world is the Capitoline Museum in Rome, which was established in 1471.

Almost all the land received by the ATO participants is now being cultivated, taxes are being paid, and jobs are being created, unlike the previous illegal lease of state land by the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine for cash without proper rights.

Mykola Solsky states that the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine illegally leased state land and received money for it. In many cases, it could not even confirm its right to use these land plots.

"The case of Minister Solsky": NABU must "suspect" more than a thousand ATO soldiers or drop all charges.

“The case of Minister Solsky”: NABU urged to announce the fate of ATO soldiers who received land allegedly owned by the National Academy of Sciences.

The deputy director of one of the institutes of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine was notified of suspicion of receiving a bribe of $21. 2 thousand from a farmer for granting the right to lease land and the right to cultivate it.

The Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine has developed a new methodology for assessing the effectiveness of scientific and technical activities of scientific institutions and higher education institutions, which will allow evaluating scientific work according to new criteria, including research that contributes to the development of Ukraine, with the mandatory participation of international experts and transparency through a digital system.

The situation in near-Earth space is a disaster due to the large amount of space debris. In some places, this prevents astronomy from studying deep space, and satellites like Elon Musk's devices generally interfere with ground and space telescopes.

The state logistics operator has signed contracts worth UAH 45. 2 million for catering services for cadets of military institutes of the National Aviation University and Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv for the second quarter of 2024, with savings of 24% and 23% compared to pre-war prices.

Ukraine's population is projected to shrink to 28. 9 million by 2041 and to 25.2 million by 2051 due to challenges and threats, according to a report by the Ukrainian Institute for Demography and Quality of Life.

Ukraine has drafted a Demographic Development Strategy until 2040 to address the significant demographic crisis caused by the war, including population decline, forced displacement, and declining birth rates.

Ihor Rafailovych Yukhnovsky, a theoretical physicist, politician, and honorary citizen of Lviv, passed away.

The Russian corporation Rostec plans to set up resin production at the seized facilities of the Institute of Physical and Organic Chemistry in occupied Donetsk, making it part of the Russian military-industrial complex.

President Zelenskyy has set up a competition commission to select candidates for the position of a judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine under the President's quota.

Ukraine's grain exports increased by 16% in 2023 to 44. 8 million tons, with the EU remaining the main export destination

Customs officers discovered and seized fossils about 400 million years old that were being illegally exported from Ukraine to Taiwan in an international parcel.

According to the deputy director of the Ptukha Institute, the demographic situation in Ukraine is critical, but has not yet reached a critical point. The key problems are high mortality, a rapidly declining birth rate, and a significant outflow of migrants due to the war - more than 6 million Ukrainians are now abroad. It is difficult to accurately predict future demographic development.