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Iran agrees to hand over black boxes from downed plane to Kyiv:
The Iranian Civil Aviation Organization has agreed to send the flight recorders from a downed Ukrainian passenger plane to Kyiv for analysis, an Iranian diplomat said.
Tehran has also invited other interested countries to participate in reading the data from the black boxes, Farhard Parvaresh, who heads Iran's delegation at the UN's Montreal-based International Civil Aviation Organization, told Reuters on March 11.
The Iranian military said it accidentally shot down the Ukrainian jet on January 8, killing all 176 people on board.
The victims included 82 Iranian citizens and 63 Canadians, many of them of Iranian origin.
The shooting occurred with Iran's air-defense forces on high alert following an Iranian ballistic-missile attack a few hours earlier on U.S. forces in Iraq.
The strikes came days after Iran's most prominent military commander, Qasem Soleimani, was killed in a U.S. drone strike outside Baghdad.
Iranian officials have for two months refused to hand over the recording devices for deciphering. (Reuters)
Cabinet fills energy vacancy with former Akhmetov executive:
By RFE/RL
Another former executive who worked for Ukraine's wealthiest billionaire, Rinat Akhmetov, has been appointed to the country's cabinet amid a government reshuffle that started last week.
Vitaliy Shubin was named acting energy and environmental protection minister, the Kyiv-based investment bank Concorde Capital said in a note to investors.
He was appointed on March 10, according to the government web portal, and previously served as first deputy of the ministry.
Before joining the cabinet, Shubin worked as an executive for two companies of Akhmetov's energy holding, DTEK, between 2011 and 2014.
Deputy Economy Minister Pavlo Kukhta was also appointed acting economy minister on March 10.
He is a longtime advocate for creating a farmland market and has called for the privatization of thousands of inefficient state enterprises.
Western analysts have said lifting the moratorium on the sale of farmland could be a huge driver of economic growth in the coming years. Ukraine is one of just six countries, including Cuba and North Korea, that doesn't have a land market.
However, powerful interests inside the country have opposed land reform and other policies pushed by former Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk.
On March 4, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and his ruling Servant of the People party in parliament instituted a government shake-up, ultimately putting Denys Shmyhal in charge of the government.
Shmyhal, 44, was named deputy prime minister in February. He previously served as head of the regional administration in the western Ivano-Frankivsk region, where he made a name for himself as a business-friendly governor.
In 2017-2019, Shmyhal worked as an executive at DTEK. A native of Lviv, Shmyhal headed different businesses for most of the previous decade before entering civil service at the Lviv regional administration. He has studied abroad, mainly in Belgium, Canada, Georgia, and Finland.