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      Europe`s largest low-cost airline may enter Ukraine
      May16

      Europe`s largest low-cost airline may enter Ukraine

      Europe`s largest low-cost carrier Ryanair is considering the possibility of entering the Ukrainian air transportation market and is in talks with Lviv`s authorities regarding the matter, according to Forbes Ukraine.”We are in dialogue with officials from Lviv, but I do not think we will discuss flights to Odesa. Ukraine now can only be considered...

      Peskov says Ukraine should stick to Eurovision rules as host country – media
      May16

      Peskov says Ukraine should stick to Eurovision rules as host country – media

      Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says that the rules of selecting participants in the Eurovision song contest are general for all countries, and Ukraine that will host the event in 2017 will have to follow them.”Eurovision is an international contest and the host country should follow the Eurovision rules,” Peskov told TASS while commenting on the...

      Bloomberg: It`s up to governments to stop enabling corruption
      May16

      Bloomberg: It`s up to governments to stop enabling corruption

      It will take more than a ”Global Declaration Against Corruption” to rid the world of an age-old scourge, but don`t dismiss last week`s anti-corruption summit in London too quickly. The surge of interest in the issue is all to the good – and an opportunity that shouldn`t be wasted, according to Bloomberg.Graft may always be with us, but...

      Russian proxies again use banned arms, attack Avdiyivka industrial zone
      May16

      Russian proxies again use banned arms, attack Avdiyivka industrial zone

      Russian-backed terrorists have again intensified the shelling of the industrial zone in the town of Avdiyivka in Donbas, eastern Ukraine, according to press officer of the Donetsk sector in the Anti-Terrorist Operation zone Vladyslav Voloshyn.”At night, the militants used tank shells, cannon artillery systems, 120 mm mortars against the defenders...

      Fitch affirms Ukraine at `CCC`
      May16

      Fitch affirms Ukraine at `CCC`

      Fitch Ratings has affirmed Ukraine`s Long-Term Foreign and Local Currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) at `CCC`, the agency reported on its website.The issue ratings on Ukraine`s senior unsecured foreign and local currency bonds have also been affirmed at `CCC`, the agency said in its statement.The Country Ceiling has been affirmed at `CCC` and...

      Italy set to double child benefit to combat low birth rate
      May16

      Italy set to double child benefit to combat low birth rate

      Italy`s health minister has outlined plans to double child benefit to combat what she described as an ”apocalyptic” decline in the country`s birth rate, the BBC reports.Beatrice Lorenzin said the monthly bonus for lower-income families should be twice the current EUR 80 (GBP 60; $90), according to the BBC.Ms. Lorenzin also called for higher...

      National Guard gets new Ukrainian armored personnel carriers
      May16

      National Guard gets new Ukrainian armored personnel carriers

      Kyiv armored plant, which is part of state-run Ukroboronprom Concern, has shipped the first batch of six new BTR-3E1D armored personnel carriers to the National Guard of Ukraine, according to Ukroboronprom`s press service.The armored vehicles are equipped with the four-stroke six -cylinder water-cooled Deutz BF6M1015CP diesel engine and the...

      Al Qaeda turns to Syria, with a plan to challenge IS: NYT
      May16

      Al Qaeda turns to Syria, with a plan to challenge IS: NYT

      Al Qaeda`s top leadership in Pakistan, badly weakened after a decade of C.I.A. drone strikes, has decided that the terror group`s future lies in Syria and has secretly dispatched more than a dozen of its most seasoned veterans there, according to senior American and European intelligence and counterterrorism officials, according to The New York...

      Kernel`s top managers complain to country`s leaders about SBU search
      May16

      Kernel`s top managers complain to country`s leaders about SBU search

      The top managers of the Kernel company, one of Ukraine`s largest agribusinesses, have sent an open letter to Ukrainian authorities, complaining about recent searches conducted by the SBU Security Service of Ukraine at the company`s office, the Kernel`s press service reported.”On May 12, 2016 Kernel`s headquarters in Kyiv was searched by...

      FT: NATO rapid unit not fit for eastern Europe deployment, say generals
      May16

      FT: NATO rapid unit not fit for eastern Europe deployment, say generals

      NATO`s new ”spearhead” rapid reaction force could not be deployed in eastern Europe if there was a war with Russia, according to the alliance`s own military assessments, the Financial Times reports.The ”Very High Readiness Joint Task Force,” the 5,000-strong centerpiece of the 2014 NATO summit and the package of measures it produced to counter...