Section: News & Summaries

      Klimkin sees Ukraine as point of no return for OSCE
      Sep02

      Klimkin sees Ukraine as point of no return for OSCE

      Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin says that Ukraine is the point of no return for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). ”Ukraine is the point of no return for #OSCE. Resolving current crisis will show whether OSCE can deal w/conflicts&deliver on security or not,” Klimkin tweeted after at the Informal Meeting...

      Bloomberg: EBRD sees Ukraine lending rising next year after 2016 slowdown
      Sep01

      Bloomberg: EBRD sees Ukraine lending rising next year after 2016 slowdown

      The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development expects lending to rebound in Ukraine next year as it funds projects in energy, banking and agriculture after a drop this year due to delays in forming a government, according to Bloomberg. Total lending in 2016 is expected at around 500 million euros ($558 million), a drop from 1 billion euros...

      OPP starting price may be reduced to $300 mln before new privatization auction
      Sep01

      OPP starting price may be reduced to $300 mln before new privatization auction

      The starting price of 99.6% of the stake in the Odesa Port-Side Chemical Plant (OPP), the country`s major chemicals producer, may drop to $300 million before a new auction is held in late October, the press service of the State Property Fund of Ukraine (SPFU) reported, quoting SPFU head Ihor Bilous. The July 18 auction of the state`s stake in...

      EU can prolong sanctions against citizens, entities for aggression against Ukraine next week: journalist
      Sep01

      EU can prolong sanctions against citizens, entities for aggression against Ukraine next week: journalist

      The European Union is set to prolong the asset freeze and visa bans on citizens and entities involved in the aggression in Donbas, according to Rikard Jozwiak, Brussels reporter for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. ”EU amb looks set to next week prolong asset freeze and visa bans on 146 citizens and 37 entities from Ukraine, Russia, Crimea by 6...

      State Property Fund to sell 2 coal companies in late September
      Sep01

      State Property Fund to sell 2 coal companies in late September

      The State Property Fund of Ukraine (SPFU) plans to put up for sale via stock exchanges 48.7% of state-owned shares in JSC Ukrzahidvuhlebud and 37.6% of shares in OJSC Lviv Coal Company, both located in Lviv region, the SPFU reported on its website. The auction of the state shares in Lviv Coal Company, with an initial price of UAH 41.34 million,...

      Monument to LPR militants blown up in occupied Luhansk (photo)
      Sep01

      Monument to LPR militants blown up in occupied Luhansk (photo)

      A monument to the defenders of the Luhansk People`s Republic (LPR) terrorist organization, which was inaugurated with the participation of LPR leader Ihor Plotnytskiy, has been blown up in the occupied city of Luhansk, according to a militant website. The monument was erected in the spring of 2016 in the local Druzhby Narodiv Park (Park of...

      Hryvnia weakens to UAH 26.73 to dollar on interbank market
      Sep01

      Hryvnia weakens to UAH 26.73 to dollar on interbank market

      Hryvnia quotations against the dollar on the interbank currency market on Thursday fell to UAH 26.55/26.73 to the dollar by the middle of trade, a broker at a commercial bank has told an UNIAN correspondent. Hryvnia quotes against the euro have settled at UAH 29.6030/29.8010, while those against the Russian ruble have settled at UAH...

      Paul Manafort’s Ukrainian Legacy
      Sep01

      Paul Manafort’s Ukrainian Legacy

      I have seen Paul Manafort twice in my life. The first time was in 2007 during a Ukrainian lunch at Morosani Hotel in Davos, Switzerland, where Viktor Yanukovych came to speak. The second time was at a solemn reception in honor of Yanukovych’s 2010 inauguration at the Ukrainian House in Kyiv; Manfort arrived with oligarch Rinat Akhmetov, who...

      More MH17 docs released, Dutch government assumed Russian separatist to be responsible
      Sep01

      More MH17 docs released, Dutch government assumed Russian separatist to be responsible

      A court forced the Ministry of Security and Justice to publish more documents on the disaster with flight MH17 thanks to a joint call on the Freedom of Information Act by broadcasters NOS and RTL Nieuws and the Volkskrant. A number of new details were revealed, including that the Dutch government assumed from the first that Russian separatists...

      Odesa-Brody oil pipeline technologically ready for Azerbaijani oil transit: Ukrtransnafta
      Sep01

      Odesa-Brody oil pipeline technologically ready for Azerbaijani oil transit: Ukrtransnafta

      Ukrtransnafta, the state-owned operator of oil transport infrastructure, has reported the technological readiness of Ukraine`s Odesa-Brody main oil pipeline, linking the Ukrainian port city of Odesa at the Black Sea and the town of Brody on the Ukrainian-Polish border, to launch oil transits through the Ukrainian territory from Azerbaijan to the...