Section: News & Summaries

      U.S., Canada Ambassadors urge putting routine immunization in Ukraine back on track
      Oct05

      U.S., Canada Ambassadors urge putting routine immunization in Ukraine back on track

      Ukraine currently has the lowest routine immunization rates in the world. According to the latest data from the Ministry of Health, as of August 2016, only 30% of children in Ukraine were fully immunized against measles, only 10%, against hepatitis B, and only 3% of against diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus. Vaccine supply shortages in the past...

      Ukraine to check Akhmetov`s commitments under Ukrtelecom deal
      Oct05

      Ukraine to check Akhmetov`s commitments under Ukrtelecom deal

      The Ukrainian government plans to set up an interdepartmental ad hoc group to check how Ukrainian businessman Rinat Akhmetov`s System Capital Management, which acquired a controlling stake in the country`s largest fixed-line operator Ukrtelecom, has been implementing its commitments under the purchase agreement. Head of the State Property Fund of...

      Q&A: Is Ukraine Still Changing?
      Oct05

      Q&A: Is Ukraine Still Changing?

      Three Atlantic Council experts answer questions about Ukraine’s ongoing reforms.1. It’s been nearly three years since the Euromaidan protests began. How would you grade the pace and extent of Ukraine’s reforms?Anders Åslund, Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council: In 2014, Ukraine carried out two vital preconditions for economic...

      Ukraine FM on Donbas: `Russia should be out` – DW
      Oct05

      Ukraine FM on Donbas: `Russia should be out` – DW

      While Ukraine struggles to implement key conditions of the Minsk agreements, its Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin called on Russia to leave Donbas in an exclusive DW interview. ”My fundamental point [is] security should be there and Russia should be out, in order to get Donbas back into Ukraine,” Klimkin told DW. He said western sanctions on Moscow...

      Trump’s Flip-Flopping on NATO
      Oct05

      Trump’s Flip-Flopping on NATO

      U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s new-found faith in NATO is unlikely to reassure America’s partners in the organisation. In the first presidential debate with his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, Trump declared he was “all for NATO” because, he said, its members had listened to his earlier criticism and were...

      European Parliament approves Paris climate pact
      Oct05

      European Parliament approves Paris climate pact

      The European Parliament has approved the landmark Paris climate change pact, putting the accord over the threshold needed for the global deal to come into force in November, according to Radio Liberty. The October 4 vote in Strasbourg came four days after European Union environment ministers signed off on the agreement and paved the way for...

      Serious escalation in Eastern Ukraine: heavy shelling in Luhansk sector
      Oct05

      Serious escalation in Eastern Ukraine: heavy shelling in Luhansk sector

      Combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 68 times in the past 24 hours, including 36 barrages in the Luhansk sector, 19 in the Mariupol sector, and 13 in the Donetsk sector, according to the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) headquarters. In the Luhansk sector, the enemy resorted to...

      Ukrainian Parliament proposes reduced tax rates for industrial parks
      Oct05

      Ukrainian Parliament proposes reduced tax rates for industrial parks

      The Ukrainian parliament has adopted a bill that introduces tax benefits for companies participating in industrial parks, proposing tax exemptions or reduced rates for corporate profit tax, property tax, land tax and value added tax when importing equipment and components. Some 227 lawmakers voted for the adoption of the bill in first reading...

      Poltorak: Ukraine to ask only anti-aircraft, anti-tank systems from U.S.
      Oct05

      Poltorak: Ukraine to ask only anti-aircraft, anti-tank systems from U.S.

      Ukrainian Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak has said that Ukraine will ask the United States to supply the weapons it needs most – anti-aircraft and anti-tank systems, according to Ukrainian TV Channel 24. However, Poltorak did not disclose when Ukraine might receive the lethal weapons, pointing out that it is known only in the United States whose...

      McCain: Stop Assad now — or expect years of war – WSJ
      Oct05

      McCain: Stop Assad now — or expect years of war – WSJ

      U.S. Senator John McCain says it is necessary to ground the regime`s air force, create safe zones for Syrian civilians, and arm the opposition. ”They make a desert and call it peace,” wrote the Roman historian Tacitus, quoting an enemy of Rome about its brutal conquests. The same could be said today of Bashar Assadand his ally Russian President...