Новости за 30.11.2015

PARIS - President Barack Obama met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Paris, on the sidelines of an international summit to combat climate change, according to a White House official.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Nov. 30 the reason Turkey downed a Russian warplane last week was that it wanted to protect supplies of oil from Islamic State.

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau indicated that Canada will provide more support for Ukraine in its conflict with Russia, after the countries' leaders met on the sidelines of the global climate conference in Paris. Trudeau and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko held a closed-door bilateral meeting on Nov. 30, CBC News reported.

Ukraine's Finance Ministry has posted a draft national budget for 2016.

U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the Syria crisis and the situation in Ukraine during a meeting on Nov. 30 on the sidelines of the climate summit in Paris, a White House official said.

The Cabinet of Ministers has approved an action plan to deploy LTE (4G), a standard for wireless communications of high-speed data for mobile phones and data terminals, in Ukraine, under which a 4G tender is to be called in December 2017.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and President of European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker in Paris coordinated efforts ahead of the final round of ministerial trilateral consultations Ukraine-EC-Russia on the implementation of Free Trade Agreement that will be held in Brussels on Dec. 1.

Ever since it started at the end of September, Russia's military engagement in Syria has given rise to many questions, contradictory interpretations, different hopes and fears. While some have seen it as anti-Western policy, others have hoped that it will eventually lead to a common anti-ISIS coalition in Syria. The terrorist bombing of a Russian passenger plane over Sinai and Turkey's shooting down of a Russian fighter jet have only added to hopes, fears and questions.

Ukrainian military man and cyborg Andriy Hrechanov called 'Rakhman' has been liberated from the captivity, famous racing motorist and volunteer Oleksiy Mochanov said.

The head of the Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Ukraine said that the forward patrol bases created by the SMM will significantly improve monitoring along the dividing line in Donbas, an SMM spokesperson said.

U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin had an "eventful" discussion on Turkey, Syria and Ukraine during a meeting on Nov. 30 on the sidelines of the U.N. Climate Summit in Paris, according to statements from the Kremlin and the White House.

Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin on Nov. 30 appointed Nazar Kholodnytsky as the nation’s top anti-corruption prosecutor and a deputy prosecutor general.

After the Euromaidan Revolution came to a bloody end in February 2014, local residents redeveloped an abandoned building site not far from Kyiv’s Independence Square in honor of 100 people that were shot dead, most by police.

PARIS - President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has a threat of ecology catastrophe exists in Donbas.

Editor's Note: The following is a Nov. 30 note from Timothy Ash, an analyst with Nomura International in London.

The United States has delivered more than $260 million in non-lethal military equipment to help the government of Ukraine in its fight against a Russian-backed insurgency, but some of the U.S.-supplied gear meant to protect and transport Ukrainian military forces is little more than junk.

Russia risks causing an "environmental disaster" in eastern Ukraine with its support for rebel forces, President Petro Poroshenko told a UN climate conference in Paris on Nov. 30.

Russia's economic sanctions against Turkey over its downing of a Russian warplane could hurt the Turkish economy in several areas from fruit to tourism, even if the initial impact is likely to be limited.

Ukraine's Energy Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn say some electricity deliveries to Crimea can be resumed but that the timing must be agreed with Crimean Tatar activists who are conducting protests along the transmission lines in Ukraine's Kherson region, just north of the Crimean Peninsula.

The mission of the European Network of Election Monitoring Organizations (ENEMO) has said that votings in Mariupol and Krasnoarmiysk on Nov. 29 were carried in accordance with the law, with no frustrations registered.

Russia's propaganda operation is now so vast that it is diversifying. Its institutional channels have spread from RT TV to Sputnik multi-media, to multi-lingual YouTube channels, and through the capillaries of social media. Propaganda is carefully differentiated by national (UK, US) and language (Arabic, Francophone) audiences; the message and the tone seem infinitely variable.

BRUSSELS – That one of the five sessions at the NATO foreign ministers conference on Dec. 1-2 is devoted to Ukraine is a testament to Ukraine’s importance to the security architecture of Europe, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told a group of journalists ahead of the event.

Russian PM Dmitry Medvedev has accused Ukraine of "sabotage" after damage to key electricity pylons deprived Crimea of power.

Prosecutor General of Ukraine Viktor Shokin has appointed First Deputy Prosecutor of Crimea Nazar Kholodnytsky to be Anti-Corruption Prosecutor.