Savchenko`s case may be appealed in ECHR – lawyer
Nadia Savchenko`s lawyer Mark Feygin is holding talks regarding an application to the European Court of Human Rights.”I would like to announce that I am in talks with my British colleague Ben Emmerson on a joint complaint to the ECHR on Savchenko`s case,” the lawyer wrote on Twitter.He added that another Savchenko`s lawyer Nikolay Polozov would...
Obama: Putin viewing NATO, EU threat to Russian power
U.S. President Barack Obama has said that Russian President Vladimir Putin is viewing NATO, EU, and trans-Atlantic unity as a threat to Russian power, according to CBS News.Speaking with CBS This Morning co-host Charlie Rose in Germany before meeting with European heads of state, Obama was asked if he believes Russia`s President Vladimir Putin is...
Ukraine marking 30th anniversary of Chornobyl disaster
On April 26, 2016, Ukraine is marking 30 years of a disaster at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant (NPP), the most devastating technogenic catastrophe in the history of the use of nuclear energy.According to archive data, at 01:23 on April 26, 1986, a reactor at power unit 4 of the Chornobyl NPP was completely destroyed in a series of thermal...
Ukrainian agricultural exports to EU rise 15%
Over the first three months of this year, the Ukrainian exporters shipped to the EU agricultural products worth a total of $1.2 billion.The revenue from the export of Ukrainian agricultural products to the EU in January-March 2016 is 15% more than in the first quarter of 2015, Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Vladyslav Rutytskyi wrote...
Ukraine suspends gas imports from Poland – Ukrtransgaz
Ukraine will suspend for two months the import of natural gas from Poland to perform schedule maintenance works, according to the head of PR department at Ukrtransgaz, Maksym Beliavskiy.”The maintenance works are scheduled to begin in July-August 2016, in order to ensure the stable functioning of the gas transmission corridor during the heating...
Bomb blows up on bus in Armenia
The cause of the explosion on a bus in the Armenian capital Yerevan late Monday, which killed two people, was a bomb, according to the head of Armenian Police Vladimir Gasparyan, BBC Russian Service reported.He added that the bomb exploded near the second seat on the right side of the bus, and it was not a fragmentation blast. No other details...
U.S. sends F-22 fighters to reassure NATO allies facing Russia: Reuters
Two highly advanced U.S. fighters flew to the Black Sea on Monday for the first time since Washington beefed up military support for NATO`s eastern European allies who say they face aggression from Russia, according to Reuters.”We`re here today to demonstrate our capability to take the F-22 anywhere needed in NATO or across Europe,” said Squadron...
Explosion rocks Odesa Pivdennyi Bank`s building late on Monday
An explosion in the Odesa-based office of Pivdennyi Bank was reported late on Monday evening, according to the press service of the National Police`s main department in Odesa region.”An explosion in the lift shaft of Pivdennyi Bank`s office building was reported to the police at 23:28 local time on April 25. Investigators, canine handlers,...
USA Today: Chornobyl disaster could trigger more cancer, deaths
Three decades after the Chernobyl (Chornobyl in Ukrainian) nuclear power plant exploded and sent a plume of radiation as far away as the United Kingdom, fears remain that the world`s worst nuclear disaster could still trigger cancer, illness and more deaths, according to USA Today.”The total death toll from cancer from the accident is projected...
Kyiv bakery aims at cake markets in U.S., Canada
Kyiv`s largest bread and bakery food producer, Kyivkhlib, plans to launch cake shipments to the United States and Canada in 2016, according to the Stock Market Infrastructure Development Agency of Ukraine (SMIDA).Last year Kyivkhlib exported its dry breads, bagels and pastry foods to Germany, Lithuania, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Bulgaria,...
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