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NBU plans to complete banking diagnostics by mid-2017
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has carried out diagnostics of 20 largest banks, accounting for 86% of the whole banking system, and expects to complete the process at the remaining banks by the middle of 2017, according to NBU Deputy Governor Kateryna Rozhkova.”We`ve finished the diagnostics of 20 largest banks, we`ve signed a three-year...
Rada chairman: 14 journalists killed during ATO in Donbas
Chairman of Ukraine`s Verkhovna Rada Andriy Parubiy said that 14 journalists had been killed during the Anti-Terrorist Operation in Donbas.”According to statistics, nine journalists were killed while performing their duties. Many volunteered for the army: five journalists were killed as servicemen on the frontline,” he said during awarding war...
10 times more foreign currency sold than purchased in May
Net sales (excess of sales over purchases) of foreign currency in cash by individuals in May amounted to $319.2 million, according to a posting on the website of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU).In May, banks sold $36 million worth of cash foreign currency to individuals and bought $355.1 million in cash, the NBU said.As UNIAN reported earlier,...
Fiscal Service Head Nasirov says tax police work within law
The tax police are working within Ukraine`s legal framework, Chief of Ukraine`s State Fiscal Service (SFS) Roman Nasirov said during a meeting with journalists”To my mind, had the tax police acted outside the law, on the same day we would see the business and its lawyers who would file legal claims to the prosecutor`s office. There is no such...
Volume of 3rd tranche for Ukraine to be determined at IMF Executive Board meeting – Vacher
The amount of the third tranche of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Ukraine`s key creditor, will be determined at a meeting of the IMF Executive Board scheduled for early July that will take into account the schedule of the next IMF tranches, according to Fund`s Permanent Representative in Ukraine Jerome Vacher who was speaking at a...
MEPs recommend not to consider visa-free regime for Georgia, Ukraine in one package
Granting visa-free regime for Georgia should not be considered in one package with Turkey, Ukraine and Kosovo, the Committee of Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament announced during a discussion with the President of Georgia Giorgi Margvelashvili, Europeiska Pravda reports.According to MEPs, Georgia has fulfilled all the visa liberalization...
Savchenko says sees ways of solution to Donbas conflict, ready for direct talks with ”DPR/LPR”
Ukrainian MP Nadia Savchenko has offered to hold direct talks with the self-proclaimed ”Donetsk and Luhansk People`s Republics” (”DPR/LPR”).Speaking on Ukrainian Radio Era about ways to resolve the conflict in Donbas, Savchenko highlighted the following points: to extend sanctions against Russia, ”because this country still does not understand...
IMF advises Ukraine to develop pension reform ASAP
Ukraine must now develop the pension reform, which will provide stability of the pension system to eliminate the deficit of the Pension Fund and the implementation of the medium-term budget planning, Jerome Vacher, the IMF`s envoy to Ukraine, said during the round table in Kyiv.According to Vacher, Ukraine needs to see the horizon in the long...
Kremlin: Russia-NATO relations still lack of trust
The dialogue between Russia and NATO continues at the level of ambassadors, but it is unlikely to lead to greater understanding, because there is a lack of mutual trust, Kremlin`s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists in Moscow, according to an UNIAN correspondent in Russia.”The dialogue continues at the level of ambassadors, but it unlikely...
ANACONDA-2016: LITPOLUKRBRIG starts realistic training near Nowa Deba in Poland
LITPOLUKRBRIG begins its participation in ANACONDA-2016 Exercise oriented on training and coordination Crisis-response Operations in Nowa Deba training ground, scheduled to take place on June 6-17, the press service of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry has reported.The exercise opening ceremony was held by Brigadier General Adam Joks, the...