Новости за 29.01.2016

Intellectuals in Russia today suffer a fate that they consider to be worse than death - being forced to remain silent.

Foreign nationals, who serve in Ukraine's Armed Forces, may acquire Ukrainian citizenship after three years of residence in the country, starting from the date their military contract commenced.

‘Putin get away and I won't be sorry, Ukraine won't be your territory'. This song's title is ‘World support Ukraine' and this singer – Diana Mess hopes to perform it during the 2016 Eurovision song contest. But Mess isn't bidding to represent Ukraine...she is in running to become a contestant from the United Kingdom.

Ukraine's Constitutional Court will begin on January 30 the consideration of the Verkhovna Rada's request to issue its opinion on the compliance of the updated bill on amendments to the fundamental law of Ukraine in the part of the justice with the requirements of Articles 157 and 158 of the Constitution.

Russia's central bank said on Jan. 29 that rate hikes were not off the table if inflation risks grew, toughening its rhetoric after a relentless oil price slump that has sent the rouble crashing to record lows.

The Kremlin has lashed out at the White House after it backed up an allegation from the US Treasury Department that President Vladimir Putin is corrupt.

Be Like Bill has made its way to Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus -- albeit in adapted form.

Andy Hunder, Ukraine's American Chamber of Commerce president, joins us on ViewPoint to discuss the Davos Forum outcome for Ukraine and Ukraine's government reforms progress.

Istanbul - A Turkish citizen fighting in Syria who Moscow has accused of killing a Russian pilot said Jan. 29 he was not scared Russian forces are targeting him, after making an unexpected public appearance in Istanbul.

Ukraine has become the object of high-stakes diplomacy. This does not mean that fighting has stopped—quite the opposite.

VOLODYMYRETS – Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko has said that the country has finally become independent from Russian natural gas, having survived this autumn and winter without it.

Gennady Kanishchenko, owner of the legendary Kyiv bar Baraban (Ukrainian for “drum”), says the landlord tries to force the bar out.

KUZNETSOVSK - President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko believes that the biggest reforms are implemented in the energy sector, which allowed Ukraine to achieve energy independence from Russia.

WARSAW/BRUSSELS - A new pipeline to double Russian gas flows to Germany will only go ahead if Russia does not cut off Ukraine and eastern European gas flows, German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel told the Polish government on Jan. 29.

VOLODYMYRETS - Ukraine has managed to save Hr 45 billion thanks to the introduction of an electronic procurement system, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said.

One of the key conditions for achieving financial stability and economic growth in Ukraine is the continuation of the reforms envisaged in the program of cooperation with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other international financial institutions, Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk has stated.

The Kremlin on Jan. 29 lashed out at the White House after it backed up an allegation from the US Treasury that President Vladimir Putin is corrupt.

As the president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili rarely missed a chance to present himself as a man whose mission was to dismantle every vestige of Soviet or Russian imperial legacy. He opened a museum of occupation in Tbilisi and ordered a gigantic World War II memorial be blown up to make way for a new Georgian parliament building. He made English rather than Russian the primary foreign language in Georgian schools and later called on Ukrainians to follow suit.

The monitors of OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) registered heavy weapons of that haven't been withdrawn by militants.

Most of the funds for repayment of debts to the former general contractor of the construction of a new Okhmatdyt facility, Ukrprofmed LLC, have been blocked on the account of state enterprise Ukrmedproektbud, pending the decision of competent authorities on the legality of actions of the Ukrmedproektbud management.

Meet Ivan Agulov. He's teaching these school children in the Russian town of Kirovgrad his version of patriotism. He does it, in part, by frightening them out of their wits. Today, he's telling them the discredited story that the Ukrainian army crucified a small boy and his mother.

Two Ukrainian troops have been wounded in Donbas in the past 24 hours, Ukrainian presidential administration official Andriy Lysenko said.

On the Day of Kruty Heroes, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko paid tribute to the heroic feat of Ukrainians executed by the Bolshevik Red Army on Jan. 29, 1918 at Kruty, according to the official website of the President of Ukraine.

Ukraine’s hryvnia headed for the worst weekly depreciation in the world as the central bank limited the supply of dollars to protect reserves amid a delay in negotiations to release the next part of a $17.5 billion International Monetary Fund loan.

VOLODYMYRETS – Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko expects that Ukrainians will get the visa-free regime with the EU in the second half of this year.