Новости за 17.11.2015

At the G-20 meeting in Antalya, Turkey, on Nov. 16, Russia's President Vladimir Putin proposed that Russia could restructure the $3 billion Eurobond that he lent former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in December 2013. It comes due on Dec. 20.

The reorganization and reform of Ukraine's catastrophically corrupt police force was the top priority when President Petro Poroshenko appointed Eka Zguladze first deputy Interior Minister of Ukraine. Poroshenko wants to emulate the relative success that Georgia's Rose Revolution reformers garnered in modernizing their small post-Soviet country. Zguladze is just one of the many Georgians who have been drafted by the new Ukrainian government to kick reforms into high gear.

PARIS - France and Russia agreed to coordinate their military and security services in an unusual alliance against Islamic State jihadists in Syria on Tuesday after a devastating attack on Paris and the bombing of a Russian plane.

The Daily Vertical is a video primer for Russia-watchers that appears Monday through Friday.

French president gathered his politicians in Paris to declare war on Isil, as Barack Obama insisted that if there were an easy option, they would have done it

Russia's security chief says an act of terror brought down the Russian A321 airliner in Egypt last month, killing all 224 people on board.

The second round of mayoral elections in major cities in Ukraine last Nov. 17 were in line with international election standards, according to the Committee of Voters of Ukraine.

WASHINGTON - The United States, Germany, Italy and France have confirmed that the current sanctions against Russia will remain in place until the Minsk agreements are fully observed, the press service of the White House reported on Nov. 17.

The Kremlin said for the first time on Nov. 17 that a bomb did bring down a Russian passenger plane that crashed over the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt on Oct. 31, killing all 224 people on board.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and President of Slovenia Borut Pahor have met and discussed Ukraine's EU integration and the ongoing reforms to improve the business climate and fight corruption in the country, the Ukrainian presidential press service has reported.

Investigators have established that former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych personally ordered the crackdown on the Euromaidan protest in Kyiv on November 30, 2013, the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office (PGO) has announced.

The rise of India’s startup ecosystem has been silent butsteady and consistent. With over 3000 startups in 2014, India has firmly landedits place as the third largest startup ecosystem in the world just behind the US and UK. Startup benchmark company, Compass recently ranked Bangalore at 6th in terms of funding, beating the likes of London and Seattle. While this has translated to unprecedented growth in e-commerce, m-commerce and hyper-local services, it has also driven the boom in India’s food tech industry. Читать дальше...

The Russian passenger plane that crashed in Egypt was brought down by a homemade bomb placed on board in a "terrorist" act, the head of Russia's FSB security service told President Vladimir Putin on Nov. 17.

DNIPROPETROVSK, Ukraine - Gennady Korban, leader of the Ukrop center-right party, is arguably Ukraine’s prisoner No. 1.

UZHHOROD, Ukraine – Voters in Uzhhorod in Zakarpattya Oblast were given the dilemma of having to choose between a former supporter of ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych against a candidate who has made racist and anti-Semitic remarks.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is giving investors a reason to buy Ukrainian bonds again.

Ukraine's gross domestic product (GDP) fell by 7 percent in Q3 2015 from a year ago, while in Q2 2015 the decline was 14.6 percent, and in Q1 2014 it was 17.2 percent.

All the ballots have been counted at the election of Lviv mayor, Chairman of Lviv City Election Commission Ihor Slipetsky has said.

Ukraine’s tech industry is growing fast.

According to Founder and Managing Partner of AVentures Capital Andrey Kolodyuk, today there are more than 2,000 startups in Ukraine. “Of course, not all of them can be promising and successful. But a quantity like this shows Ukraine’s potential is great, especially in the IT sector,” Kolodyuk told technology blog Geektime on Nov. 1

Dnipropetrovsk city territorial election commission at a meeting in the early hours of Nov. 17 announced that a candidate of the UKROP Party, Borys Filatov, received the highest number of votes in the second round of the mayoral elections in the city, the UKROP party's press service reported.

British Prime Minister David Cameron says the gap in views with Russia on the future of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been reduced, after meeting with Vladimir Putin.

Editor's Note: The following is a speech delivered by George Soros at the 25th anniversary dinner for the International Renaissance Foundation in Kyiv on Nov. 14.

The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) has observed ceasefire violations in Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine. The statement was made in the OSCE SMM report as of 19:30 on November 15, 2015.

Militants opened fire on the Ukrainian army's positions in Donbas 25 times from 6 p.m. on Nov. 16 to midnight, the press center of the Ukrainian anti-terrorist operation said on its Facebook account on Nov. 17.

The combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions and civilian settlements in eastern Ukraine 25 times from 6 p.m. local time on Nov. 16 to midnight on Nov. 17, using Grad multiple rocket launchers twice, according to the press center of Ukrainian military.