Wi-Fi coverage expands on Kyiv subway
Wi-Fi coverage expanded to another four Kyiv subway stations, according to a Facebook posting by a company that won the competition for the installation of the network.”Khreshchatyk, Teatralna, Zoloti Vorota, and Klovska have joined the network! The service is now available at seven stations!” reads the statement.The other three stations where...
Lukashevich: Does Kyiv really believe Donbas representatives` aim is to secede from Ukraine?
Russian Permanent Representative to the OSCE Alexander Lukashevich is outraged that Western countries, as well as Ukraine call the pro-Russian militants in Donbas ”separatists,” according to the Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.”We cannot fail to notice that not only Western counterparts, but...
Savchenko to be swapped for Russian GRU officers by late May – media
Moscow and Kyiv have agreed to swap Ukrainian pilot, MP and member of the Ukrainian delegation to PACE Nadia Savchenko for two Russian GRU officers, Alexander Alexandrov and Yevgeny Yerofeyev, convicted in Ukraine. They will be transferred to serve their sentence at home until the end of May, Russian news agency RBC reported.According to a...
Focus: Poroshenko gets ahead Firtash in Ukraine`s wealthiest people list
Ukrainian weekly news magazine Focus has published the traditional rating of Ukraine`s hundred wealthiest people.The biggest moneybag traditionally remains an oligarch and owner of SCM Rinat Akhmetov. His assets are estimated at $3.1 billion. The leader of Privat group and former governor of Dnipropetrovsk region Ihor Kolomoisky ranked second,...
Groysman requests SBU check alleged ties of energy minister advisor with ”LPR-DPR”
Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman rules out the appointment of the current adviser to the Energy Minister Yuriy Ziukov to the post of Deputy Head of the Ministry of Energy if the information about his collaboration with the militants of the Donetsk and Luhansk People`s Republic terrorist organizations is confirmed.”If the information is...
Kremlin says Mejlis ban ”internal affair”
Moscow does not deem it necessary to take into account the third countries` views regarding the issue of a ban imposed on Crimean Tatar Mejlis, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday, TASS reported.”This is an internal affair of the Russian Federation,” he said commenting on the call of the US Department of State ”to reverse...
Poland to increase army by 50%
Army of Poland will increase by 50% in the next few years. In particular, three additional brigades of territorial defense will have been created on the eastern flank by the beginning of 2017, according to Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz, kommersant.ru reported referring to Rzeczpospolita.The minister noted that the Army`s operational units...
Ukraine-EU Association Agreement must not be altered following Dutch referendum – MEP
The members of the European Parliament consider it important to find such a solution to the situation following the Dutch referendum on the Ukraine-EU Association Agreement that would not affect the content of the deal, that`s according to chairman of the European Parliament delegation to the Ukraine-EU Association Committee Andrej Plenkovic who...
Oil prices rise as investor sentiment turns upbeat – Reuters
Oil prices rose on Friday, setting crude futures on course for solid weekly gains, as market sentiment turned more upbeat despite ongoing oversupply, according to Reuters.International benchmark Brent crude futures LCOc1 were trading at $44.88 per barrel at 07:13 GMT, up 35 cents, or 0.8%, from their last settlement, Reuters wrote.U.S. West Texas...
Mejlis representations may open in Brussels, Washington in autumn
MP from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc and Chairman of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis Refat Chubarov does not rule out the opening of the Mejlis representative offices in Brussels and Washington this autumn.”Since the Russian occupation of Crimea, the main area of our activities is in the capitals of some countries, where the main international...
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