Новости за 18.11.2015

The Islamic State (IS) group's official magazine has posted a photo of what it says was the improvised bomb used to bring down a Russian passenger plane over Egypt last month, killing all 224 people on board.

MOSCOW - The attacks in Paris have forced Russian officials to acknowledge what many in the West have long suspected: the downing of a Russian Metrojet airliner over the Sinai peninsula - killing all 224 people on board - was an act of terror.

Ukraine said on Nov. 18 it expects to lose some $600 million next year as a result of a food trade ban which Russia has threatened to introduce from Jan. 1st.

As Western leaders begin to warm up to Russian President Vladimir Putin after a long chill, Eastern European leaders have raised concerns that European pressure to maintain sanctions against Russia over the conflict in Ukraine could be easing.

The European Union is heading toward extending economic sanctions imposed on Russia over the Ukraine crisis despite efforts to improve ties with Moscow in the aftermath of the Paris attacks, EU officials and diplomats say.

Over the past year a new, European movement has been shaking up the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. On viewpoint we are joined by Oksana Forostyna, a Ukrainian journalist and executive editor at 'Krytyka' magazine. We're discussing Kyiv's slow but steady rise from its post-Soviet deep sleep.

Three servicemen of the Ukrainian Armed Forces have suffered injuries in Luhansk region in the past 24 hours, the regional police said.

Russia's Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said on Nov. 18 that Moscow had discussed its new offer to restructure Ukraine's debt with the International Monetary Fund's key shareholders.

Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko has appointed Volodymyr Yatsenkovsky at Ukraine's new ambassador to Lithuania.

Ukraine and Bulgaria plans to resume direct train travel between Kyiv and Sofia.

The instructions to adopt the so-called "dictatorship laws" on Jan. 16, 2014 came directly from the then president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, head of the Special Investigations Unit of the Main Investigation Department of the Prosecutor General's Office (PGO) Serhiy Horbatiuk has said.

As we arrive today in Kyiv, almost two years have passed since people took to the streets in Ukraine with legitimate calls for reform and European integration. The subsequent deplorable turn of events is the tale of Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea and further military aggression against Ukraine.

The Kremlin batted away any suggestion of ISIS bringing down the plane until Nov. 17, when it suddenly said it found explosive residue - and stepped up bombing targets in Syria.

At a meeting of the city council of Kryvy Rih, Dnipropetrovsk region, on Nov. 18 morning, a candidate from the Opposition Bloc party Yuriy Vilkul was introduced as the new mayor elected at the Nov. 15 mayoral election runoff.

Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” The CIA’s famous Presidential Daily Brief, presented to George W. Bush on August 6, 2001, has always been Exhibit A in the case that his administration shrugged off warnings of an Al Qaeda attack. But months earlier, starting in the spring of 2001, the CIA repeatedly and urgently began to warn the White House that an attack was coming.

Militants resumed attacks on Ukrainian army positions in Donbas at 18.00 on Tuesday, the anti-terrorist operation press center said on Nov. 18, referring to a video of Ukrainian Armed Forces General Staff spokesman Leonid Matiukhin.

A candidate of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc "Solidarity" Vladyslav Atroshenko has won the second round of the mayoral elections in Chernihiv.

The Ukrainian mission to the joint coordination center for ceasefire monitoring (JCCC) in Donbas has passed the evidence proving that militants shelled Ukrainian government forces to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (OSCE SMM).

VTB Bank handily beat earnings forecasts in the third quarter, as Western countries' sanctions begin to lose their bite, the bank's chairman told CNBC.

Ukraine's national football has team qualified for the Euro 2016 European Football Championship finals, which will be held next summer in France.

Russia has stepped up its attacks on Islamic State (IS) targets in Syria, dispatching long-range bombers and firing a volley of cruise missiles.

MOSCOW - A somber President Vladimir Putin vowed to hunt down and punish those responsible for a bomb that brought down a Russian passenger jet last month, "wherever they are hiding." Intensified Russian airstrikes Nov. 17 hit the Islamic State group's stronghold in Syria that also is being pounded by the French military.

Ukraine Today's Volodymyr Solohub is joined by Borys Gudziak, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Bishop of Paris, to discuss the afermath of tragic Paris attacks on Nov. 13.

Andrei Lugovoi, Russian State Duma Deputy and the UK's chief suspect in the killing of Kremlin whistle-blower Alexander Litvinenko has promised "inevitable retribution" for the terrorists who blew up Russian A321 and blamed "uropean tolerance" allowing "a flow of migrants" into Europe for the terrorist attacks in Paris on Nov 13.

Ukraine must not remain a country of great but unrealized potential. The International Monetary Fund package and other foreign assistance are helping stabilize Ukraine’s economy, but only an attractive business climate can result in the level of investment that will truly transform the country for the long term.