Militants occupy southern outskirts of Avdiyivka – Ukraine intel
Russian-backed militants are equipping a fortified position near Vynohradnyky district, the southern outskirts of the town of Avdiyivka, according to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.”On April 5, the units of the 11th separate motorized rifle regiment (Makiyivka) of the 1st Army Corps (Donetsk) of the Armed...
Turkmenistan to require HIV test for marriage license
Turkmenistan has passed a law under which all people seeking a marriage license must be tested for HIV, according to Radio Liberty.The law implies that anyone found to be infected with the virus that is the precursor to AIDS would be denied a marriage license, RFE/RL wrote.Reports in state-controlled media on April 6 said the law was enacted ”in...
Bulgaria`s anti-monopoly watchdog raids fuel retailers offices
Bulgaria`s anti-monopoly watchdog raided the offices of two fuel retailers as part of an investigation into the country`s only oil refinery and seven fuel retailers for possible cartel agreements to fix prices of petrol and diesel, Reuters reported. ”The Commission for Protection of Competition raided several offices of Lukoil and Rompetrol in...
Panama govt announces creation of `panel of experts`
Panama is creating an international panel to help improve transparency in its offshore financial industry, according to the BBC.The move follows the leak of millions of documents from law firm Mossack Fonseca, showing it helped some clients evade tax and avoid sanctions, the BBC reports.Several countries are probing possible financial crimes by...
Hryvnia strengthens to UAH 25.83 to dollar on interbank market
Hryvnia quotations against the dollar on the interbank currency market on Thursday strengthened to UAH 25.78/25.83 to the dollar by the middle of trade, a broker at a commercial bank has told an UNIAN correspondent.Hryvnia quotes against the euro have settled at UAH 29.3730/29.4280, while those against the Russian ruble have settled at UAH...
One Ukrainian soldier wounded in Donbas in last day
No Ukrainian soldiers were killed but one was wounded in the Donbas conflict zone over the last 24 hours, head of the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) headquarters, Colonel Oleksandr Motuzianyk said at a briefing on Thursday, according to an UaPosition correspondent.”Over the last day, we haven`t lost any Ukrainian soldiers, but...
Slovakia`s ex-finance minister names conditions for work in Ukraine`s Cabinet
Former Slovak Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister for Economy Ivan Miklos, who has been invited by Ukrainian Parliament Speaker Volodymyr Groysman as Finance Minister of Ukraine if Grosyman is appointed prime minister, has named conditions for his work in a new Ukrainian government.”I`ve given my preliminary consent to become finance...
Finance Minister Jaresko publishes tax declaration for 2015
Ukrainian Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko has declared an income of UAH 121,700 for last year, including a salary of almost UAH 73,000, according to the minister`s tax declaration published on the Finance Ministry`s website.According to the document, the minister also received UAH 26,800 in dividends and interest payments, and about UAH 22,000...
Groysman says Dutch referendum ”very disturbing” signal to Ukraine
Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Groysman has called the preliminary results of the April 6 referendum in the Netherlands on the ratification of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement as an ”extremely disturbing” signal to Ukraine.”Unfortunately, the results of the referendum in the Netherlands have proved to be unfavorable to Ukraine. We respect...
EU`s 2016 quotas for export of Ukrainian sugar, maize and juices finished
Ukrainian Agrarian Policy and Food Minister Oleksiy Pavlenko says Ukrainian exporters in January-March used all annual quotas for duty-free supplies of sugar, honey, maize, barley groats and flour, processed tomatoes, as well as grape and apple juice to the European Union.”The dynamics of the use of the 2016 quotas show that they are over for...
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