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Trump team demands GOP not advocate lethal aid for Ukraine
The Trump campaign worked behind the scenes last week to make sure the new Republican platform won`t call for giving weapons to Ukraine to fight Russian and rebel forces, contradicting the view of almost all Republican foreign policy leaders, according to The Washington Post. Throughout the campaign, Trump has been dismissive of calls for...
Senior manager of Ukraine Railways kidnapped in Kyiv
Head of the electrification department at Ukrzaliznytsya Valeriy Lidmirskiy was kidnapped in Kyiv late Monday, July 18, according to the TSN news service.The incident took place at about 21:00 Kyiv time near the official`s home on Kudryashova street in the capital`s Solomenskiy district, TSN reported from the scene.Valeriy Lidmirsky is reported...
Erdogan says rebels planned to ”kill or capture” him in Marmaris
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that the rebel military planned to kill or capture him during a coup attempt while the president was staying at a hotel in Marmaris with his family, according to CNN.”An operation was carried out in Marmaris, directed against me. Two of my guards were killed. Had I stayed there 10-15 minutes longer,...
Number of Kyiv Patriarchate`s Orthodox Church members grows by 14.5% in six years
The number of church members who attend the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Kyiv Patriarchate) grew by 14.5% from 2010 to 2016, while the members of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) shrank by 5.8%, according to a poll conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS).”Eighty percent of the polled identify themselves...
Poroshenko shares video with An-178 stunts at Farnborough airshow
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has shared footage with the Ukrainian-made An-178 aircraft being showcased at the Farnborough International Airshow, which took place July 11 through July 17.The video was posted on the president`s official account on Facebook.At the show, the aircraft demonstrated its best features – short takeoffs, speed...
OSCE SMM says no evidence its interpreter was SBU agent
The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) has responded to the Russian FSB`s accusation that an OSCE SMM interpreter is an agent of Ukraine`s SBU Security Service, saying that there is no evidence to support these claims.”The Mission takes such allegations seriously; however, at this moment we have no evidence to support these claims. As such,...
Ukraine Needs to Abandon its Soviet Thinking Once and for All
Ukraine’s reform efforts continue to sputter on without any transformative results more than two years after former President Viktor Yanukovych fled to Moscow. The economy’s basic problems have not yet been addressed. It is still bogged down in its Soviet past, with populist forces making illusory promises that appeal to many...
Tender to sell Odesa chemical plant fails due to lack of interest
The State Property Fund of Ukraine (SPFU) has announced that a tender to sell 99.6% of shares of Odesa Port-Side Chemical Plant failed due to the lack of interest.”The deadline for submitting bids for the tender to sell Odesa Port-Side Plant has expired today, July 18. No bids had been provided by 18:00 Kyiv time. The SPFU will have to recognize...
Parliament speaker says decommunization as important as judicial reform, national security
Ukrainian Parliament Speaker Andriy Parubiy says that the issue of decommunization is as important as judicial reform and national security, according to an UNIAN correspondent.”A clean-up, updating of Ukraine`s map today is a resolute answer to [Russian President Vladimir] Putin, the same way as our achievements on the eastern front are. This is...
The Guardian: Russia orchestrated state-sponsored doping cover-up, says WADA report
A devastating and damning report into Russian sport has found that the country`s government, security services and sporting authorities colluded to hide widespread doping across ”a vast majority” of winter and summer sports, according to The Guardian.The International Olympic Committee has promised it will not hesitate to take ”toughest sanctions...