Section: News & Summaries

      Bloomberg: Putin`s economy is stuck and he doesn`t know how to get it going
      Aug02

      Bloomberg: Putin`s economy is stuck and he doesn`t know how to get it going

      Vladimir Putin`s economy has been shrinking for 18 months but he still doesn`t have a plan to get it going again, according to Bloomberg. ”After focusing almost exclusively on foreign policy since early 2014, the need to get the economy back into gear is forcing the Russian president to face a painful choice: bow to the demands of the markets or...

      France`s foreign ministry responds to French MPs` visit to occupied Crimea
      Aug02

      France`s foreign ministry responds to French MPs` visit to occupied Crimea

      France`s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued an official statement to comment on a recent visit by French parliamentarians to the Russian-occupied Crimea. ”Calling borders into question is contrary to international law. That is why the international community, the EU, and France do not recognize the illegal annexation of Crimea,” the ministry...

      Poroshenko to go to Malaysia on first official visit, make state visit to Indonesia
      Aug02

      Poroshenko to go to Malaysia on first official visit, make state visit to Indonesia

      Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko will go on his first official visit to Malaysia this week; he is also scheduled to make a state visit to Indonesia, according to the presidential administration. The visit to Malaysia is slated for August 3-5, 2016, the administration`s press service said.”The agenda of the first visit in the history of...

      Trump Embraces Putin and Alienates Rust Belt Voters with Eastern European Roots
      Aug01

      Trump Embraces Putin and Alienates Rust Belt Voters with Eastern European Roots

      Hillary Clinton’s campaign bus rattles over potholes and bumps in the US Rust Belt while Donald Trump flits around on his private jet.Such optics never seem to hurt Trump or, conversely, to help Hillary, but much depends on voters in the Rust Belt, notably in Ohio and Pennsylvania.Trump may be a master of branding but his cobranding with...

      Kyiv court puts Yanukovych`s ally Yefremov behind bars for two months
      Aug01

      Kyiv court puts Yanukovych`s ally Yefremov behind bars for two months

      Kyiv`s Pechersky district court has decided that Oleksandr Yefremov, the former chairman of the Regions Party parliamentary faction and an ally of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, should be held on remand for two months, according to an UNIAN correspondent.The ruling was announced by investigative judge of the court Volodymyr...

      Ukrainian farmers gather 31 mln tonnes of grain by August 1

      Ukrainian farmers had threshed 31 million tonnes of grain by August 1, 2016, from 8.1 million ha of land, which is 84% of the target, according to the Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry`s press service. The average crop yield is 3.83 tonnes per hectare. The yield of wheat was 21.5 million tonnes from 5.2 million ha of land (84% of the target),...

      Kremlin: Threats from extremists cannot affect Russia`s policy to combat terrorism
      Aug01

      Kremlin: Threats from extremists cannot affect Russia`s policy to combat terrorism

      Extremists` threats against Russia published in the media will not affect the policy of fighting against terrorism pursued by the Russian authorities, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Monday, according to Russian news agency TASS. Peskov said as much when asked to comment on media reports concerning a YouTube video...

      National Bank identifies cause behind industrial output decline in June
      Aug01

      National Bank identifies cause behind industrial output decline in June

      A railway workers strike in the east of Ukraine, which blocked the movement of freight trains, has restarted the decline in industrial production and cargo turnover, according to the National Bank of Ukraine`s (NBU) Macroeconomic and Monetary Review published on the regulator`s website. ”The strike of railway workers in the east of the country,...

      Ukraine pumps 1 bcm of gas into underground storage facilities in July
      Aug01

      Ukraine pumps 1 bcm of gas into underground storage facilities in July

      Ukraine pumped 1 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas into its underground gas storage facilities in July, corresponding to the volume in the same month last year, according to Ukrtransgaz, operator of Ukraine`s gas transport system. It is also reported that a total of 2.2 bcm of gas has been accumulated in Ukraine`s underground gas storage...

      Ukraine reports 1 KIA, 6 WIA in past 24 hours
      Aug01

      Ukraine reports 1 KIA, 6 WIA in past 24 hours

      One Ukrainian soldier was killed and six were wounded in fighting in eastern Ukraine in the past 24 hours, according to a spokesman for the Ukrainian Presidential Administration. ”There was one killed in action (KIA) and six wounded in action (WIA),” Andriy Lysenko, administration spokesman for Anti-Terrorist Operation issues, said at a briefing...