Новости за 12.10.2015

The Islamic State group is the prime suspect in the Ankara bombings that killed nearly 100 on Oct.10, Prime Minister of Turkey Ahmet Davutoglu has said.

The Dutch aviation authority will on Tuesday publish its report into the shooting down last year of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine with the loss of all on board, including Glenn Thomas from Blackpool. His nephew Jordan Withers has been searching for answers about what happened ever since.

It's been a week of rising tensions in Syria with Russia stepping up airstrikes and naval bombardments in support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and in some cases against rebel groups supported by the United States.

A large increase in the salaries of Ukrainian military servicemen in the 2016 defense budget will encourage former servicemen to return to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said.

Defending himself against accusations that Russian President Vladimir Putin is challenging American leadership, President Obama erroneously told CBS's "60 Minutes" that when he took office Ukraine was ruled by a Putin "stooge."

Russian natural gas exporter Gazprom has resumed supplies to Ukraine, Chief Executive Alexei Miller said in a statement on Oct. 12, after deliveries were halted in July over a pricing dispute between Moscow and Kyiv.

The European Union’s aviation regulator warned airlines of the potential danger of flying over Iran, Iraq and the Caspian Sea after Russia fired cruise missiles against Syrian targets.

Yegor Sobolev, the lawmaker leading the charge to fire the prosecutor general, says that President Petro Poroshenko is resisting because "loyalty is more important for Poroshenko than real eradication of corruption."

The arrest of member of parliament Ihor Mosiychuk in the Verkhovna Rada on Sept. 17 made for great theater - and terrible justice.

The major pipe producing enterprises of Ukraine in January-September 2015 cut production, according to live data, by 41.9 percent compared to the same period last year, to 643,400 tonnes.

Editor's note: 'Corrupt actors' sabotage prosecution of legitimate criminal cases, U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey R. Pyatt writes. The case of ex-Ecology Minister Mykola Zlochevsky is an example that cost Ukrainians $23 million.

You can't have your chocolate and eat it too, to mangle an old proverb. But that's exactly what President Petro Poroshenko wants, say anti-corruption activists who accuse him of obstructing justice and resisting change.

It's very difficult to regain lost trust. That's the problem facing Ukrainian prosecutors. They're not making it any easier by failing to prosecute anybody for major crimes against Ukraine, ranging from large-scale embezzlement to murder.

Infrastructure Minister Andriy Pyvovarsky manages aviation, railways, roads, ports and postal services - just about everything that everybody in Ukraine uses.

Russian President Vladimir Putin defended his air and cruise-missile strikes on terror targets in Syria as two Saudi Arabian officials softened their government's position on the fate of Bashar al-Assad.

In 2014 alone, state enterprises officially lost Hr 115 billion – more than $5 billion, fueled by theft through one corrupt scheme after another.

Every year, Hr 50 billion - about $2.3 billion - disappears into the big, black, corrupt hole of Ukraine's public procurement system. That's 20 percent of taxpayers' money that the government allocates to buying goods, labor and services for public needs.

The € 400 million loan provided by the European Investment Bank (EIB) will be allocated to projects to modernize infrastructure in Ukraine's agriculture, as well as to develop aquaculture.

Public procurement has become a lot more transparent with e-procurement.

An estimated 600 million hryvnias ($28 million) in losses last year and 41 rundown factories - that's what Roman Ivaniuk inherited at the beginning of January, when he accepted his latest job as temporary general director of Ukrspyrt.

Few Ukrainians trust the police, prosecutors and judges who form the nation's judicial system, according to every respectable poll taken.

LONDON/MOSCOW - London has characterized local media reports on the rules governing combat actions by the Royal Air Force in Iraq as inaccurate.

Officials in Belarus have confirmed that authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko has won a fifth term in office by a huge majority. The election was largely boycotted by the opposition.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has said that the United States will continue to help Ukraine strengthen its defensive capability.

Russian expansionism is going into reverse, at least on the London stock market. Three of Russia's major commodity-related companies are already preparing to withdraw their listings after the bursting of the raw-materials boom and a slump in share sales by the nation's companies from more than $30 billion in 2007 to below $1 billion this year.