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      Russia claims two years after MH17 crash: No side objects in the sky
      Sep27

      Russia claims two years after MH17 crash: No side objects in the sky

      Two years after the MH17 crash in Donbas, Russia`s Defense Ministry on Monday, September 26, released radiolocation data to prove that there were no side objects in the sky over the site of the accident, according to Russian news agency RIA Novosti. ”There were no airborne side objects near the Malaysian airliner. Except for two commercial...

      Ukraine to spend UAH 1.4 bln on repairs to Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod gas pipeline
      Sep27

      Ukraine to spend UAH 1.4 bln on repairs to Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod gas pipeline

      Ukraine`s Cabinet of Ministers has approved a project for the modernization of a 31-km-long section of the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod main gas pipeline to the tune of UAH 1.4 billion, or US$ 54 million. This is stipulated in a government resolution dated September 22, 2016. The blueprints of the modernization were prepared by PJSC Engineering and...

      Ukraine fires embassy worker in Slovakia over tobacco smuggling
      Sep27

      Ukraine fires embassy worker in Slovakia over tobacco smuggling

      Ukrainian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Vadym Prystaiko has announced that First Secretary of the Ukrainian Embassy in Slovakia Oksana Lishchyshyn, who was reportedly involved in tobacco smuggling, was fired, according to the news portal Europeiska Pravda. ”The reason behind her dismissal is oath breaking. It is related to a smuggling...

      The Audacity of Nadiya Savchenko
      Sep27

      The Audacity of Nadiya Savchenko

      “Russian propaganda made the mistake of using me as an example, and I just became too expensive for them. I am a person who never gives up,” said Nadiya Savchenko, a former prisoner of war, current member of Ukraine’s parliament, and one of the country’s most popular politicians, on September 22.Three days earlier, the Atlantic...

      State Property Fund plans to sell two hydropower plants in Nov
      Sep26

      State Property Fund plans to sell two hydropower plants in Nov

      The State Property Fund of Ukraine (SPFU) plans to conduct auctions to sell Kostiantynivska and closed Myhiyivska hydropower plants in November (both in Mykolaiv region), with a starting price of UAH 13.8 million and UAH 10.9 million respectively, the press service of the fund reported. ”The Cabinet of Ministers agreed on the conditions and the...

      OSCE chief monitor lists ”hottest spots” in Donbas
      Sep26

      OSCE chief monitor lists ”hottest spots” in Donbas

      Principal Deputy Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Alexander Hug says that most of infringements on the ceasefire in Donbas, eastern Ukraine, have concentrated on areas near the towns of Avdiyivka, Yasynuvata, and the demolished Donetsk airport. Huh, who gave a briefing in the militant-controlled city of...

      Can Vladimir Putin Make the Twenty-First Century a Russian Century?
      Sep26

      Can Vladimir Putin Make the Twenty-First Century a Russian Century?

      The role Russia is playing in Donald Trump’s election campaign is quite extraordinary. The candidate’s son has acknowledged that Trump’s companies have received large Russian investments. His former campaign manager Paul Manafort worked for Ukraine’s disgraced pro-Moscow authoritarian president for almost a decade. Two of...

      European Parliament`s Committee on home affairs okays report on visa-free travel for Ukraine
      Sep26

      European Parliament`s Committee on home affairs okays report on visa-free travel for Ukraine

      The European Parliament`s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) has approved a report on visa-free travel for Ukraine and provided a mandate for the launch of talks between the EU`s institutions. A corresponding voting took place at a committee meeting in Brussels on Monday. Thirty-eight EP members voted for the decision,...

      Poroshenko tells CNN: Russia brings over 700 tanks to occupied Donbas
      Sep26

      Poroshenko tells CNN: Russia brings over 700 tanks to occupied Donbas

      Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has told CNN about Russia`s military presence in occupied areas in eastern Ukraine and disclosed how many pieces of military hardware it has brought there. ”[I`ll] give you the figures: currently, in the occupied territory in the east of my country, we have more than 700 Russian tanks, more than 1,250...

      Lithuania`s FM: Aggressor in Ukraine cannot be peacemaker in Syria
      Sep26

      Lithuania`s FM: Aggressor in Ukraine cannot be peacemaker in Syria

      Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius commented on Twitter on the actions of the Russian Federation in Syria. ”Tensions in Syria revealed true role of Russia. Being aggressor in Ukraine, one cannot be peacemaker elsewhere,” he tweeted. Earlier, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Samantha Power at an emergency meeting of...