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      Jan Peklo may become Ambassador of Poland to Ukraine – media
      Apr29

      Jan Peklo may become Ambassador of Poland to Ukraine – media

      Jan Peklo, the Executive Director of Polish-Ukrainian Cooperation Foundation PAUCI, may become new Ambassador of Poland to Ukraine, Gazeta Wyborcza reports, with reference to its sources in the Polish Foreign Ministry, according to Europeiska Pravda.According to the publication, the Polish Foreign Ministry is now planning a large-scale rotation...

      NBU`s allowance for losses in Crimea, Donbas amounts to UAH 1 bln
      Apr29

      NBU`s allowance for losses in Crimea, Donbas amounts to UAH 1 bln

      As of December 31, 2015, allowance for the losses of the NBU`s assets located in or otherwise associated with the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (including loans to borrowers) and those incurred due to the loss by the Ukrainian authorities of control over certain areas in Donetsk and Luhansk regions amounted to UAH 1,022 million, which was equal...

      Eurovision organizers ban use of Crimean Tatar flag
      Apr29

      Eurovision organizers ban use of Crimean Tatar flag

      The organizers of the Eurovision-2016 took the decision to ban the use the Crimean Tatar, Kosovo, Palestinian and some others flags during the competition. The rules, published on the official website of the Stockholm Globe Arena concert hall, prohibit bringing these flags to the venue. The list of banned flags also includes flags of the...

      Finance Ministry reports on first verification results: UAH 60 bln can go for illicit social payments
      Apr29

      Finance Ministry reports on first verification results: UAH 60 bln can go for illicit social payments

      Head of the Finance Department of social programs of the Ministry of Finance Andrey Ryazantsev has told ZN.ua of five groups in the ”black list” of recipients of social payments.Based on the first results of the verification of social payments, which the Ministry of Finance began in March, about UAH 60 billion of the budget funds can go for...

      Luhansk Governor Tuka dismissed – media
      Apr29

      Luhansk Governor Tuka dismissed – media

      According to the information, unconfirmed officially, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko dismissed George Tuka from the office of the head of the Luhansk military and civil administration, 112 Ukraine TV channel reports.”George Tuka is dismissed from his post of head of the Luhansk military and civil administration,” the publication reported.In...

      Ukraine army to take part in 10 multinational drills in 2016, practice countering hybrid threats
      Apr29

      Ukraine army to take part in 10 multinational drills in 2016, practice countering hybrid threats

      The servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will participate in 10 multinational military exercises in 2016, spokesman for the Defense Ministry Colonel Oleksiy Chornobay said at a briefing on Friday, according to an UNIAN correspondent.Four of these exercises will be held in the territory of Ukraine, and the rest — abroad, in particular...

      Finance Minister decides on nominees for his deputies
      Apr29

      Finance Minister decides on nominees for his deputies

      Ukrainian Finance Minister Oleksandr Danylyuk is going to appoint Yana Buhrymova, Yuriy Buts, Svitlana Vorobei, Oksana Markarova, Yevhen Kapinus and Serhiy Marchenko his deputies.”An important day. I will submit to the Cabinet of Ministers the candidates for the positions of my deputies: Yana Buhrymova, Yuriy Buts, Svitlana Vorobei, Oksana...

      NBU plans to transfer over UAH 38 bln to state budget-2016
      Apr29

      NBU plans to transfer over UAH 38 bln to state budget-2016

      The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) is planning to transfer UAH 38.164 billion of its profits to the state budget of Ukraine in 2016, which is UAH 164 million more than the planned figure for the current year, according to the regulator`s website.According to the law On the National Bank of Ukraine, its financial statements have to be prepared in...

      PrivatBank wins Commerzbank STP Award 2015
      Apr29

      PrivatBank wins Commerzbank STP Award 2015

      Ukrainian PrivatBank won the prestigious banking award Commerzbank STP Award 2015, which is awarded annually to one of the world`s largest financial institutions for the high quality of international payments.The award was presented by head of Commerzbank AG representative office in Kyiv Petro Kozlynskiy.For more than 10 years in a row, this...

      Ukrainian hackers take over popular pro-terrorist propaganda website
      Apr29

      Ukrainian hackers take over popular pro-terrorist propaganda website

      Ukrainian hackers from informal communities called Flame Falcons and Trinity penetrated the website notorious for DPR-LPR terrorist propaganda, ”Anna-News.”The main page of the resource now shows a video clip with a speech of a masked man.”If you are watching this video, we have cleared the information space from another website of Russian...