Section: News & Summaries

      French Republican candidate Francois Fillon pulls campaign event amid reports probe deepening
      Mar01

      French Republican candidate Francois Fillon pulls campaign event amid reports probe deepening

      French Republican candidate Francois Fillon postponed a major campaign event and called an emergency press conference amid reports judges may be advancing a probe into his family`s finances, according to Bloomberg. A chaotic morning saw Fillon`s campaign team left waiting at the agricultural show when the 62-year-old former prime minister failed...

      Johnson says Britain fully support Ukraine in its fight against Russian aggression
      Mar01

      Johnson says Britain fully support Ukraine in its fight against Russian aggression

      British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has wrote on Twitter that Britain and Poland fully support Ukraine in its fight against Russian aggression. ”In Kyiv on joint visit with Polish FM #Waszczykowski to show Ukraine we are 100% behind them against Russian aggression,” he tweeted. On March 1, Foreign Ministers of Britain and Poland Boris Johnson...

      Ukraine has not signed IMF memo yet – source
      Mar01

      Ukraine has not signed IMF memo yet – source

      Ukraine is in the final stage of negotiations with the country`s key creditor, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), but a memorandum of cooperation, which stipulates a list of further reforms to get the next tranche of the Fund, has not been signed yet, a source close to the negotiations told UNIAN. ”The memorandum has not been signed yet,” the...

      Hacked correspondence shows Kremlin`s efforts to promote ”Russian world” in Poland by funding radicals
      Mar01

      Hacked correspondence shows Kremlin`s efforts to promote ”Russian world” in Poland by funding radicals

      Ukrainian ”hacktivists” have gained access to the correspondence of one of the Kremlin`s coordinators Alexander Usovsky, who had been promoting the ideas of the ”Russian world” in Poland. According to the leaked data, back in 2014, Usovsky pitched his ideas to promote ”Russian world” to the team of the Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeev, who is...

      Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approves rules for goods transportation in ATO zone
      Mar01

      Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approves rules for goods transportation in ATO zone

      The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine in the framework of resolving the situation with the blockade of coal supplies from the occupied areas of Donbas set up in January by several political forces has adopted the rules of goods transportation across the demarcation line, submitted by the SBU Security Service of Ukraine. The list of goods allowed to...

      Russian militants return seized UAV to OSCE, delete surveillance data
      Mar01

      Russian militants return seized UAV to OSCE, delete surveillance data

      Russian militants of the so-called ”DPR” (self-proclaimed Donetsk People`s Republic) have returned to the OSCE observers a drone they had earlier seized, according to LIGA.net. All surveillance data have been deleted, LIGA.net reports citing the OSCE SMM press service. The terrorists told the OSCE that they would supposedly conduct an...

      Militants charge Donetsk woman with ”espionage” for Ukraine
      Mar01

      Militants charge Donetsk woman with ”espionage” for Ukraine

      The militants of the so-called ”Donetsk People`s Republic” terrorist organization have abducted a local woman Valentyna Buchok, accusing her of ”collaboration with the SBU Security Service of Ukraine.” She has been detained according to a `who-knows-what-kind-of` a code,” the adviser to the head of the Security Service of Ukraine Yuriy Tandit...

      Ukrainian government raised electricity price by 30% from March 1, 2017, Russia-occupied Donbas continues to receive electricity for free
      Mar01

      Ukrainian government raised electricity price by 30% from March 1, 2017, Russia-occupied Donbas continues to receive electricity for free

      This is the fifth planned increase in electricity tariffs for the households. Compared with April 2015, the electricity tariffs increased by 3.5 times. Earlier, in February 2015, The National Energy and Utilities Regulation Commission (NEURC) approved a two-year schedule of raising electricity tariffs for the households.According to the plan,...

      Ukraine signs IMF memo to unlock next loan tranche
      Mar01

      Ukraine signs IMF memo to unlock next loan tranche

      Ukraine has signed an International Monetary Fund memorandum, paving the way for the disbursement of the next tranche of loans under its $17.5 billion bailout program, a source in the central bank said on Wednesday, according to Reuters. ”The Ukrainian side has signed the updated memorandum on cooperation,” the source told Reuters. Disbursements...

      Russia must be sat down at negotiating table to discuss its pullback from Crimea – Chubarov
      Mar01

      Russia must be sat down at negotiating table to discuss its pullback from Crimea – Chubarov

      Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, Member of Parliament of Ukraine Refat Chubarov says Russia must be forced to sit down at the negotiating table to discuss its withdrawal from the Crimean peninsula, according to Censor.net. ”We should not waste time in creating an international platform for the de-occupation of Crimea and the...