Sakvarelidze`s dismissal `clearing of comfortable field` for Shokin`s successor controlled by AP – expert
The dismissal of Deputy Prosecutor General Davit Sakvaralidze from the prosecution bodies is a clearing of ”comfortable field for the future Prosecutor General,” who will be controlled by the Administration of the President of Ukraine, head of the board of the Anti-Corruption Action Center (AntAC), a Ukrainian civil society organization, Vitaliy...
NBU sells $26.2 mln to support hryvnia
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has sold $26.2 million to the banks to smooth out currency rate fluctuations, according to a statement of Director of the NBU Open Markets Department Serhiy Ponomarenko provided for UNIAN.The NBU attributes the current supply and demand imbalances on the currency market to holidays in Europe and the United...
Court rules to seize E-Pay payment system accounts for aiding DPR-LPR militants
The Kyiv Pechersk District Court has ruled to seize funds kept in bank accounts and cards of E-Pay payment system, as well as its management for assisting militants of the so-called Donetsk People`s Republic (DPR) and Luhansk People`s Republic (LPR).As stated in a number of court decisions published in the Unified State Register of Court...
Economy Ministry forecasts industrial output growth of 2% over six mths
The Ukrainian Ministry of Economic Development and Trade forecasts industrial production in Ukraine will grow by 2% in the first half of 2016, the ministry reported on its website.According to the forecast, the industrial recovery during the period will be propped up by a gradual improvement on global markets, the recovery in certain economic...
EgyptAir hijacker surrenders
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday he knows nothing about the possibility to exchange convicted Ukrainian pilot Nadia Savchenko for Russian citizens Viktor Bout and Konstantin Yaroshenko who are serving lengthy jail terms in the United States, Russian news agency TASS reports.The hijacker emerged from the aircraft with his hands in...
Kremlin says not aware of possible Savchenko swap for Bout, Yaroshenko
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday he knows nothing about the possibility to exchange convicted Ukrainian pilot Nadia Savchenko for Russian citizens Viktor Bout and Konstantin Yaroshenko who are serving lengthy jail terms in the United States, Russian news agency TASS reports.”I have not heard anything about this. I saw media reports...
Liashko faction officially quits coalition
First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Andriy Parubiy has announced a message of the faction of the Radical Party to quit the coalition, according to an UaPosition correspondent.The message was received by the presidium of the Verkhovna Rada and addressed to Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Volodymyr Groysman, Parubiy said.MPs from the faction...
Hrabovskiy promises his captors to no longer defend Russian GRU officer Aleksandrov
Chief Military Prosecutor in Ukraine Anatoliy Matios on Tuesday presented a footage where Yuriy Hrabovskiy, the lawyer of the Russian GRU officer Aleksandr Aleksandrov, showing him vow to his captors to no longer defend Aleksandrov in court, according to an UaPosition correspondent.In the video, the unidentified person is heard asking Hrabovskiy...
U.S. issues higher number of visas to Ukrainians in 2015 – Ukraine MFA
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine has reported a 22.6% increase in the number of non-immigrant visas to the United States issued to the citizens of Ukraine in 2015 compared to 2014.”Ukrainian Foreign Ministry welcomes a positive trend of increasing the number of visas issued for Ukrainian citizens to the United States. According to the...
Trump hires Yanukovych`s former strategist
Donald J. Trump, girding for a long battle over presidential delegates and a potential floor fight at the Cleveland convention, has enlisted the veteran Republican strategist and political consultant Paul J. Manafort to lead his delegate-corralling efforts, according to people briefed on Mr. Trump`s plans, The New York Times reports. Mr. Trump...
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