Новости за 29.01.2016

Human rights workers say at least 9,000 dead - mostly civilians - in eastern Ukraine.

Some Ukrainian artists and singers have appealed to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko with a request to close Ukrainian broadcasting space to video and audio products from Russia.

Russia for the first time publicly embraced talking to the OPEC oil cartel about jointly cutting global oil production by up to 5 percent to prop up collapsing oil prices.

Bohdan Hawrylyshyn, born in the small Ukrainian village of Koropets 89 years ago, has come a long way.

Ukraine has enough funds to buy natural gas for the 2016-2017 heating season, Finance Minister of Ukraine Natalie Jaresko said in the parliament on Jan. 29.

Africa, the continent home to the world’s fastest growing middle class, has become the latest target for Ukraine’s farmers amid shifting export markets.

Ukraine’s parliament on Jan. 28 approved a long-awaited bill to grant citizenship to foreigners fighting in the country’s military – but some are doubtful the law is anything more than a PR stunt.

Russian investigators have completed their investigation into five men accused of killing of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov outside the Kremlin last year, paving the way for their trial.

WARSAW - German Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel said on Jan. 29 Poland and Germany had differing views on what role Russia should have in the proposed Nord Stream II pipeline, which is led by Gazprom and aims to increase Russian natural gas supplies to Europe.

Russia's central bank on Jan. 29 warned of possible interest rate hikes ahead if inflation risks rise, as it held its key rate at 11 percent after a fresh oil price drop.

As Ukraine grapples with a plethora of challenges, including endemic corruption and trade disputes with Russia, cyberattacks against the country's critical infrastructure can now be added to the list of issues.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the Nordic Environment Finance Corporation (NEFCO) and the Eastern Europe Energy Efficiency and Environment Partnership (E5P) provide a financing package of € 27.5 million to Lviv city to implement a project on the upgrade of wastewater treatment in the city, the EBRD said in a press release on Jan. 29.

Ukraine has become the object of high-stakes diplomacy. This does not mean that fighting has stopped—quite the opposite. Russian forces continue to launch probes and violate the cease-fire agreement; they have substantially reinforced themselves, as have the Ukrainian forces arrayed against them. Nevertheless, a major diplomatic campaign is occurring.

Military instructors of the Royal Marines of Great Britain are carrying the education courses for junior commanders of a separate marine brigade of the Ukrainian Navy.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko will make a working visit to Germany on Feb. 1, according to the official website of the President of Ukraine.

A rumble of artillery prompts the biker gang to pause inside their stronghold. It has been some time since the rebel-held city of Luhansk in eastern Ukraine, on the war-torn fringes of Europe, has witnessed any frontline action. An explosion sends pulses racing.

A decision on cutting oil production is possible only if all crude-exporting nations are in agreement and there’s no timing for talks, Russia’s Energy Minister Alexander Novak said.

The introduction of amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine to grant a special status to certain areas of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts, under demand of the Russian envoys in Trilateral Contact Group, is fundamentally unacceptable, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said.

Statements by U.S. officials alleging that Russian President Vladimir Putin is corrupt are outrageous and insulting, the Kremlin said on Jan. 29, adding that they were an attempt to influence Russia's next presidential election.

If anybody wants a quick reminder of how easy it is to mislead film viewers, they should watch Paul Moreira’s ‘Masks of the Revolution’. They may then wish to ask France’s popular Canal Plus cable television channel why it has collaborated in the making of such a film and why it has scheduled its broadcast for Feb. 1.

On the 98th anniversary of the Battle of Kruty, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has thanked the young Ukrainians who join the ranks of the defenders of our country following their heart.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said that 2,269 Ukrainian servicemen have been killed during the fighting in Donbas.

One day after Sweden disclosed plans to deport up to 80,000 migrants, a senior official said Finland expects to expel nearly 20,000 migrants out of the 32,000 who sought asylum there last year.

Ukrainian enterprises will lose $0.8-$1.1 billion in revenues in 2016 from the trade restrictions imposed by the Russian Federation, Ukrainian Economic Development and Trade Minister Aivaras Abromavicius said in the Verkhovna Rada on Jan. 29.

Russian-separatist forces have violated the ceasefire in Donbas 71 times in the past 24 hours, the press center of Kyiv's army operation in eastern Ukraine has reported.