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Under privatisation, Ukraine came to have a 90% owner-occupancy rate | (c) Sergiy Serdyuk / Alamy Stock Photo. All rights reserved

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How blockchain can empower smart cities – and why interoperability will be crucial

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In this 1919 caricature, Ukrainians are surrounded by a Bolshevik (to the north, man with hat and red star), a Russian White Army soldier (to the east, with Russian eagle flag and a short whip), and to the west a Polish soldier, a Hungarian (in pink uniform) and two Romanian soldiers. Wikimedia Commons

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