Section: News & Summaries

      Canada wants anti-Russian sanctions to be maintained or strengthened
      Mar29

      Canada wants anti-Russian sanctions to be maintained or strengthened

      Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion says Canada insists that collective sanctions against Russia either be maintained or strengthened, according to portal Macleans.”The sanctions imposed on Russia in retaliation for its aggression against Ukraine are effective only because they are being imposed by a large number of countries. Canada...

      Sick of the Ukraine Crisis? Then Arm Ukraine
      Mar29

      Sick of the Ukraine Crisis? Then Arm Ukraine

      Building Up Ukraine’s Military is the Counterintuitive Solution to Peace Western policymakers who believe the Minsk accords would work if only Ukraine made the requisite constitutional and electoral concessions are missing a key point: that they, and Russia, forced Ukraine to make security its priority by violating the 1994 Budapest...

      Kerry`s suitcase during Moscow visit contained documents for talks — Russian diplomat
      Mar29

      Kerry`s suitcase during Moscow visit contained documents for talks — Russian diplomat

      During his last week`s visit to Moscow, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was carrying a suitcase that contained documents for the negotiations, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told reporters on Tuesday, Russian news agency TASS reported.”[There were] documents for talks with Putin and Lavrov,” the high-ranking diplomat said...

      Sakvarelidze`s dismissal `clearing of comfortable field` for Shokin`s successor controlled by AP – expert
      Mar29

      Sakvarelidze`s dismissal `clearing of comfortable field` for Shokin`s successor controlled by AP – expert

      The dismissal of Deputy Prosecutor General Davit Sakvaralidze from the prosecution bodies is a clearing of ”comfortable field for the future Prosecutor General,” who will be controlled by the Administration of the President of Ukraine, head of the board of the Anti-Corruption Action Center (AntAC), a Ukrainian civil society organization, Vitaliy...

      NBU sells $26.2 mln to support hryvnia
      Mar29

      NBU sells $26.2 mln to support hryvnia

      The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has sold $26.2 million to the banks to smooth out currency rate fluctuations, according to a statement of Director of the NBU Open Markets Department Serhiy Ponomarenko provided for UNIAN.The NBU attributes the current supply and demand imbalances on the currency market to holidays in Europe and the United...

      Court rules to seize E-Pay payment system accounts for aiding DPR-LPR militants
      Mar29

      Court rules to seize E-Pay payment system accounts for aiding DPR-LPR militants

      The Kyiv Pechersk District Court has ruled to seize funds kept in bank accounts and cards of E-Pay payment system, as well as its management for assisting militants of the so-called Donetsk People`s Republic (DPR) and Luhansk People`s Republic (LPR).As stated in a number of court decisions published in the Unified State Register of Court...

      Economy Ministry forecasts industrial output growth of 2% over six mths
      Mar29

      Economy Ministry forecasts industrial output growth of 2% over six mths

      The Ukrainian Ministry of Economic Development and Trade forecasts industrial production in Ukraine will grow by 2% in the first half of 2016, the ministry reported on its website.According to the forecast, the industrial recovery during the period will be propped up by a gradual improvement on global markets, the recovery in certain economic...

      EgyptAir hijacker surrenders
      Mar29

      EgyptAir hijacker surrenders

      Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday he knows nothing about the possibility to exchange convicted Ukrainian pilot Nadia Savchenko for Russian citizens Viktor Bout and Konstantin Yaroshenko who are serving lengthy jail terms in the United States, Russian news agency TASS reports.The hijacker emerged from the aircraft with his hands in...

      Kremlin says not aware of possible Savchenko swap for Bout, Yaroshenko
      Mar29

      Kremlin says not aware of possible Savchenko swap for Bout, Yaroshenko

      Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday he knows nothing about the possibility to exchange convicted Ukrainian pilot Nadia Savchenko for Russian citizens Viktor Bout and Konstantin Yaroshenko who are serving lengthy jail terms in the United States, Russian news agency TASS reports.”I have not heard anything about this. I saw media reports...

      Liashko faction officially quits coalition
      Mar29

      Liashko faction officially quits coalition

      First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Andriy Parubiy has announced a message of the faction of the Radical Party to quit the coalition, according to an UaPosition correspondent.The message was received by the presidium of the Verkhovna Rada and addressed to Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Volodymyr Groysman, Parubiy said.MPs from the faction...