Section: News & Summaries

      Defense Ministry to recertify staff
      Mar30

      Defense Ministry to recertify staff

      Ukrainian Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak has announced recertification of the ministry`s officials.”I`ve made a decision to optimize the personnel structure of the Defense Ministry and revise functional responsibilities of the ministry`s officials. I have to admit that it is impossible to operate efficiently in such an overstaffed system. The...

      Fiscal Service raids Kyiv forex booths following reports on police cover-up
      Mar30

      Fiscal Service raids Kyiv forex booths following reports on police cover-up

      The State Fiscal Service of Ukraine on March 29, conducted searches in Kyiv`s illegal exchange booths, seizing more than UAH 10 million in cash, the press service of the agency said.”According to the results of searches in illegal currency exchange offices in the city of Kyiv conducted on March 29, the officers of the Main Investigation...

      Militants mortar ATO forces, residential buildings
      Mar30

      Militants mortar ATO forces, residential buildings

      The combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 72 times in the past 24 hours, using banned weapons along the entire demarcation line, according to press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO).The militants were most active in the Donetsk sector. In particular, they fired on ATO forces in the...

      Poroshenko to discuss Sakvarelidze`s return to PGO with new PG
      Mar30

      Poroshenko to discuss Sakvarelidze`s return to PGO with new PG

      Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is planning to discuss with the new Prosecutor General the reinstatement of the dismissed Deputy Prosecutor General Davit Sakvarelidze and his team, Sakvarelidze said in an interview with the Ukrainian news magazine Novoe Vremya after his meeting with the president.”The President said that nothing had changed...

      Average wages in Ukraine grow by 5.1% in Feb
      Mar30

      Average wages in Ukraine grow by 5.1% in Feb

      Ukraine`s State Statistics Service has reported that the average wages paid to full-time employees in Ukraine in February 2016 grew by 5.1%, or UAH 223, from January 2016, to UAH 4,585, or about $173.5, per person.This indicator is 3.3 times higher than the minimum wages in Ukraine, which is set at UAH 1,378, or about $52.The average wage in...

      Oil prices rebound on less than expected build in stocks
      Mar30

      Oil prices rebound on less than expected build in stocks

      Oil futures rebounded in Asian trade on Wednesday, buoyed by a less than expected build in crude oil stockpiles last week, Reuters reported.A weakening dollar also lent some support but concern that a two-month rally was fading in an oversupplied market put a ceiling on gains, according to Reuters.Brent futures LCOc1 climbed 28 cents to $39.42 a...

      Poroshenko starts 4-day working visit to U.S.
      Mar30

      Poroshenko starts 4-day working visit to U.S.

      Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko will be on a working visit to the United States from March 30 to April 2, the presidential press service reported.In the framework of the visit, the Ukrainian president will take part in the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington at the invitation of President of the United States Barack Obama.The agenda of the...

      Putin`s shadow government for Donbas exposed: BILD Exclusive
      Mar30

      Putin`s shadow government for Donbas exposed: BILD Exclusive

      The records of the ”Inter-ministerial Commission for the Provision of Humanitarian Aid for the affected Areas in the Southeast of the Regions of Donetsk and Luhansk” from October 23, 2015 reveal what observers have long feared: The Russian government is steering all affairs of the ”separatist areas” in the east of Ukraine, Germany`s BILD...

      Russia threatens Turkey with new import restrictions
      Mar30

      Russia threatens Turkey with new import restrictions

      Head of Russia`s Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor) Sergey Dankvert does not rule out that a ban may be introduced on all supplies of crop produce from Turkey, Prime news agency reported.”We will have to impose restrictions on all supplies of crop produce [from Turkey]. This may happen within a...

      Su-25 warplane crashes in Russia
      Mar30

      Su-25 warplane crashes in Russia

      A Sukhoi Su-25 attack aircraft crashed on Wednesday during the landing at an airfield in Russia`s Far Eastern Primorye territory, the defense ministry said, according to Russian news agency TASS.The Su-25 jet was performing a training flight, the ministry`s press service said, TASS wrote.”The pilot ejected, his life and health are not under...