Новости за 03.12.2015

The Ukrainian government this year has allocated about Hr 3 billion for local governance projects, First Deputy Minister of Regional Development, Construction, Housing and Utilities Services Viacheslav Nehoda has said.

A boarding school in Shchaslyve village in Kyiv Oblast cut its heating expenses by 25 percent last winter. To do that, the school switched from burning natural gas to wood pellets, biofuel derived from wood waste.

A boarding school in Shchaslyve village in Kyiv Oblast cut its heating expenses by 25 percent last winter. To do that, the school switched from burning natural gas to wood pellets, biofuel derived from wood waste.

Ukraine's Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin is confident the Verkhovna Rada will support the draft national budget for 2016 providing Hr 100 billion funding for the security and defense sector.

When Vladyslav Chechotkin and his wife Iryna were launching Rozetka in 2004, he says nobody believed he would be able to build successful store online. But Rozetka is today the country’s biggest online retailer, boasting more than 1.5 million visits per day.

Ukraine's Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said that Ukraine is not going to abandon its plans to start the implementation of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement.

"Language doesn't divide people: you can speak Russian and still be a Ukrainian patriot"

This report investigates the claims of Russian involvement in the attacks leading up to and during the assault on Novoazovs’k between 23 and 27 Aug. 2014. The report analyzes open source evidence to determine the source of artillery fire on Ukrainian units, as well as the origin of armored vehicles sighted inside Ukraine in the Novoazovs’k area.

The formation of the Prosecutor's Office in Ukraine, which is specifically designed for the fight against corruption is a key aspect in the preparation of Kyiv for a visa-free regime with the EU, European Commission's spokesman Margaritis Schinas said at a briefing in Brussels on Dec. 3.

The client base of any Ukrainian business in the early 2000s was usually kept in an excel file with each person’s name and phone number. Yet, Terrasoft has now provided an alternative: customer relationship management, or CRM.

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s decision to donate nearly all of their Facebook stock to philanthropic causes raises questions about influence, tax dodges, and democracy.

The Trilateral Contact Group will convene its next meeting in Minsk on Dec. 8, said Darka Olifer, the press secretary of the Ukrainian representative to the Group, second Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma.

Ukraine's Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry warns about the threat of accidents at Crimean Soda Plant and Perekopsky Bromine Plant (both based in Crimea) and the threat of environmental pollution in case if electricity is not supplied to these facilities.

When 5,000 people flooded into a city of 500,000 in one night with little more than the pajamas on their backs, they were greeted by the mayor and an assemblage of churches and civic groups ready to embrace them with shelter, food, clothing and moral support. The scene might sound like something from Europe’s west, where refugees are flooding in from the Middle East and Africa. But this is Ukraine in the midst of a war and an economic crisis, and two years into upheaval, the strain is beginning to show. Читать дальше...

Russian-speaking Islamic State militant standing on a rocky beach and holding a large knife leans over a man kneeling in an orange jumpsuit, threatens Russian President Vladimir Putin, and then calmly decapitates his hostage.

Ukrainian state company Centrenergo is expecting the arrival of the first batch of coal from South Africa in the amount of 168,000 tonnes by Dec. 4.

President Vladimir Putin has used an annual speech to Russian officials to lash out against the Turkish government, saying it facilitates terrorism and calling the recent shooting down by Turkey of a Russian warplane along the Turkey-Syria border a "betrayal."

Ukraine on December 1 through Dec. 3, 2015 decreased the volume of gas to import from Slovakia in its applications to 1.5-8.5 million cubic meters of gas a day, according to tentative data from the Slovakian gas transport system operator Eustream.

Three Ukrainian servicemen have suffered injuries in Donbas over the past day, according to Ukrainian Presidential Administration spokesman for the army operation Oleksandr Motuzianyk.

ROSTOV-ON-DON - The lawyers of Ukrainian pilot Nadia Savchenko charged with complicity in the killing of Russian journalists want to question her sister at the nearest court session.

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will hold negotiations with leading Ukrainian officials, meet with civil society activists, and speak at the Ukrainian parliament during a visit to Ukraine on December 7-8, a White House senior official said.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has told a group of European foreign ministers that Russia and Ukraine both must work to end tensions and restore the cease-fire in Ukraine.

I am leaving Kyiv much more negative than I have been for a very long time, and it seems to me that the International Monetary Fund reform program and, indeed, the reform team within the administration is right on the edge now.

BELGRADE - Secretary of State John F. Kerry called on Russia Dec. 3 to withdraw its troops and equipment from eastern Ukraine so a peace deal can take effect by the end of the year.

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. - A heavily armed man and woman terrorized this city on Dec. 2, killing at least 14 people and wounding at least 17 at a social services center before leading the police on a manhunt culminating in a shootout that left the two suspects dead, the authorities said.