Section: News & Summaries

      OCCRP: International trade with Crimea ongoing despite sanctions
      Aug17

      OCCRP: International trade with Crimea ongoing despite sanctions

      After Russian troops occupied the Crimean peninsula two years ago, the Kyiv government moved to block trade at all commercial ports, however, more than 600 vessels have reportedly entered Crimean ports in the past two years, according to a report published on the website of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP). The OCCRP...

      Putin to visit annexed Crimea this week: Media
      Aug17

      Putin to visit annexed Crimea this week: Media

      Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to visit annexed Crimea this week, Russian news agency RBC reported, citing two interlocutors close to the Kremlin and a source close to the embassy of the Southern Federal District. The visit is scheduled for Friday, August 19. Putin may meet local officials and visit the Tavrida youth camp, which is...

      Russian troops attack ATO forces 52 times in last 24 hours, use heavy weapons
      Aug17

      Russian troops attack ATO forces 52 times in last 24 hours, use heavy weapons

      Combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 52 times in the past 24 hours, including 23 times in the Donetsk sector, 20 times in the Mariupol sector and nine times in the Luhansk sector, according to the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) Headquarters. The situation in the Donbas...

      Reuters: Oil prices fall on doubts producers can agree output restraint
      Aug17

      Reuters: Oil prices fall on doubts producers can agree output restraint

      Oil prices fell away from 5-week highs early on Wednesday, as analysts doubted possible producer talks to rein in ballooning oversupply would be successful, according to Reuters. Brent crude futures LCOc1 were trading at $48.92 per barrel at 0158 GMT, down 31 cents from their last settlement, Reuters wrote.  Despite the dip, prices are still up...

      Militants attack Stanytsia Luhanska checkpoint at night
      Aug17

      Militants attack Stanytsia Luhanska checkpoint at night

      Combined Russian-separatist forces continued to attack positions of the State Border Guard Service`s military last night, according to the press service of the agency. ”Last night, from 21:00 to midnight, Russian-backed mercenaries shelled the Stanytsia Luhanska entry/exit checkpoint from Grand Prince Ihor Mount. The terrorists used grenades...

      Artistic gymnast Verniaiev bags first Olympic gold medal for Ukraine
      Aug17

      Artistic gymnast Verniaiev bags first Olympic gold medal for Ukraine

      Ukrainian artistic gymnast Oleg Verniaiev has won a first gold medal for Ukraine in the men`s parallel bars competition at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on August 16. Verniaiev, 22, showed the result of 16.041, which let him beat U.S. gymnast Danell Leyva, who won the silver medal with 15.900 and Russian David Belyavskiy, who got...

      U.S. Senator Coons: No consensus in Senate on lethal aid to Ukraine
      Aug17

      U.S. Senator Coons: No consensus in Senate on lethal aid to Ukraine

      U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), who was visiting Kyiv, Ukraine, on Tuesday, as the head of a U.S. Congress delegation, says that he does not think that there is consensus in the U.S. Senate at the moment on providing lethal weapons to Ukraine, according to an UNIAN correspondent. The Obama Administration was against supplying lethal aid to...

      Foreign direct investment in Ukraine 5.4% up to $44.8 bln in H1
      Aug17

      Foreign direct investment in Ukraine 5.4% up to $44.8 bln in H1

      The amount of foreign direct investment in Ukraine`s economy (nonresidents` equity capital) as of July 1, 2016, was $44.791 billion, which was 5.4%, or $2.282 billion, up on the beginning of the year, when it stood at $42.509 billion, according to the State Statistics Service of Ukraine. January through June 2016, almost $2.86 billion in new...

      Explosive Toll of Remnants of War
      Aug17

      Explosive Toll of Remnants of War

      Anti-personnel landmines and other explosive remnants of war continue to endanger civilian populations around the world long after the conflicts have moved on. Impressive international action has been taken by both state and non-state actors to manage and remove the threats but the International Committee of the Red Cross says worldwide adoption...

      Poroshenko to Hollande, Merkel: Kremlin`s allegations aim to discredit Ukraine
      Aug16

      Poroshenko to Hollande, Merkel: Kremlin`s allegations aim to discredit Ukraine

      Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has told French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel that the Kremlin`s allegations against Ukraine of plotting terrorist acts in the Russian-occupied Crimea aim to discredit the country in the international partners` eyes. ”The accusations brought by the Kremlin against Ukraine that...