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Sky News Australia: NSW Coroner releases MH17 findings
Australia`s New South Wales Coroner Michael Barnes has found the deaths of six NSW passengers in the Malaysia Airlines flight 17 crash in Donbas, eastern Ukraine, were caused by `deliberate, malicious acts on the other side of the world,` according to Sky News Australia.NSW has jurisdiction to make findings into the deaths of its citizens but...
Why Sweden Still Hasn’t Joined NATO
Sweden is one of Europe’s fiercest critics of Russia’s actions against Ukraine, but NATO membership is out for now US President Barack Obama just hosted the leaders of the countries that he wishes the rest of the world would emulate. During the Nordic-United States summit, the president had a chance to repeat to his Scandinavian...
Ukraine`s intel reveals how much cash Moscow forwards to militants in May
Russia sent nearly $19 million in cash to the militant-held occupied territory in eastern Ukraine to finance needs of the self-proclaimed ”Donetsk People`s Republic” (DPR). As Ukraine`s Intelligence Service reports, this is the money Russian-backed separatists obtained in May, according to Ukraine Today.”In early May, nearly $19 million in cash...
Cabinet estimates amount of financial aid to Ukraine since 1992
Ukraine has received $9.3 billion under various agreements with international financial institutions since 1992 and another $4 billion in non-repayable grant assistance, Olena Tregub, Director of the Department of International Assistance Coordination and Cooperation with IFIs at the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, wrote on...
Nuland to visit Russia May 17 to discuss Minsk deal implementation
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland will visit Moscow on Tuesday to discuss the next steps to implement Minsk agreements in the Ukrainian Donbas, according to the website of the U.S. Department of State.”On May 17, Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland travels from...
Russia banned Crimean Tatars from honoring 1944 deportation victims
Russian occupation authorities of Crimea banned memorial events dedicated to the forcible deportation of Crimean Tatars (the indigenous population of the Black Sea peninsula), under Stalin, according to Ukraine Today. ”As expected, Russian invaders forbid the holding of commemoration events all over the Crimean peninsula that were to take place...
Russia`s VTB says more likely to quit Ukraine than stay – RIA
State-controlled VTB, Russia`s No. 2 bank, is more likely to sell its business in Ukraine than continue working there, because it sees no growth prospects in the country, RIA news agency quoted VTB`s CEO as saying on Tuesday, according to Reuters.”As for Ukraine, we are suffering substantial losses there. We do not see big opportunities there,”...
India interested in Ukrainian imports of beans, dairy products
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of India to Ukraine Manoj Kumar Bharti and his wife Anamika Bharti have made an official visit to Vinnytsia region to discuss cooperation prospects, including imports of beans and dairy food.It is reported that the Ambassador met with Vinnytsia region`s governor Valeriy Koroviy.While introducing the...
UK referendum: 51% back Remain campaign
Time may be running out for the Leave camp to make the case for Brexit as the Remain campaign`s position is consolidating and the electorate becoming more polarized over Britain`s membership of the European Union, The Daily Telegraph has reported.With just over a month to go, the sharp end approaches and greater cut-through is needed, as reported...
Finance Ministry expects IMF Executive Board meeting on Ukrainian issue in June
The Ministry of Finance of Ukraine expects that the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will discuss the Ukrainian issue, namely, the disbursement of a $1.7 billion tranche to the country, in June, Ukraine`s Deputy Finance Minister Yuriy Butsa told reporters.”The Board meeting is not linked to the mission`s departure but to...