Новости за 16.03.2016

Yevhen Seleznyov was on top of the soccer world less than a year ago, as a star striker for an ascendant club with millions of fellow Ukrainians cheering him on.

It was the summer 2014 and the war with Russia was in full swing. Ukraine was putting together its army which had been degraded during the years since independence, and new volunteer battalions were stepping into the fight against the aggressor. While Ukraine was all too aware who she was fighting against, it was not always easy to prove to the world that Russian tanks were on Ukrainian soil. Much proof of Russia’s invasion has since come to light, and more continues to do so.

A separatist leader in eastern Ukraine began handing out passports, saying local residents would need them to vote in planned regional elections.

Ukraine's top prosecutor, who had reportedly resigned last month amid domestic and international pressure and accusations of stonewalling reforms, has resumed his duties.

The U.S.-backed government in Ukraine is burdened by “dirty money and dirty politics” and its frozen conflict with Russia-backed separatists in the nation’s east is “heating up again,” the State Department’s point woman for European policy warned on March 15.

The U.S.-backed government in Ukraine is burdened by “dirty money and dirty politics” and its frozen conflict with Russia-backed separatists in the nation’s east is “heating up again,” the State Department’s point woman for European policy warned on March 15.

Russia is interested in seeing Egypt as a key tourist destination for Russian citizens, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

Georgia's rationalism in relations with Russia, in no way means the abandonment of national interests, and the giving up with the loss of territories, Georgian presidential adviser for international affairs, Tengiz Pkhaladze, said at a briefing on March 16.

Moscow is satisfied with the security measures, which Egypt is taking at its airports, republican Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said.

The Ukrainian military positions came under 24 shell attacks from "illegal armed formations" between midnight and 6 p.m., Kyiv says.

Vladimir Putin has long enjoyed a reputation for springing surprises on the international stage. He has done so again by announcing the withdrawal of the “main part” of Russia’s military forces from Syria, barely six months after he deployed them. The Obama administration, and the rest of the world, have been left to puzzle over his motives.

Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said on Wednesday that OPEC and non-OPEC nations would discuss a possible deal on an oil production freeze, but not one on exports at their meeting in Doha on April 17.

When her 19-year-old daughter passed away two years ago after being hit by a car at a Moscow crosswalk, Yelena Sablina was devastated. One month after burying Alina, her only child, Sablina suffered another shattering blow.

At the Ukraine Financial Forum, hosted under the Vienna Initiative, National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) governor Valeria Gontareva, in Kiev to take stock of key reforms in the country’s banking sector said that “Ukraine needs to develop mechanisms to resolve non-performing loans (NPLs) generated in 2008-2015. To restart bank lending, Ukraine also needs creditor rights enforcement as well as implementation of judicial reforms. We are committed to continuing with financial sector reform. What we can... Читать дальше...

Editor's Note: The following is a question-and-answer session written by Timothy Ash, the London-based head of Central Eastern Europe, Middle East & Africa credit strategy for Nomura International, a Japanese financial holding company. Ash said it is based on his communication with institutional investors in the U.S. and Europe in recent weeks.

On a recent afternoon, a large white van pulled up to a red brick building on the outskirts of Dnepropetrovsk, a city in eastern Ukraine. A woman with a plump face and dark eyes stepped out. She smiled hesitantly, looking out at one of several newly built transit centres for displaced Ukrainian Jews.

Moscow (AFP) - President Vladimir Putin on Thursday will bestow state awards on Russian military personnel who fought in Syria after ordering the withdrawal of armed forces from the war-torn country, the Kremlin said.

Russia is working on resuming direct flights to Egypt which were halted after the downing of a Russian passenger jet.

PARIS (AP) — The wife of a Kazakh banker-turned-dissident accused of embezzling billions urged French authorities to block his pending extradition to Russia.

A meeting of the foreign chiefs of Normandy Format (Germany, France, Ukraine and Russia) is not on the immediate agenda, Foreign Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin has said.

MOSCOW, March 16 The Rothschild Group is looking at taking on new hires for its Russian operation later this year, bucking the trend for big Western money advisers to scale back, partly because it feels it can make money out of the struggling economy.

The Verkhovna Rada Committee on Legislative Support of Law Enforcement has recommended that the Ukrainian parliament back the draft decree on consent to dismiss Prosecutor General of Ukraine Viktor Shokin.

When Roman Kisliak, a man living with cerebral palsy, was forced to leave a restaurant in Lviv because the waiter thought his behavior was suspicious, the public was outraged.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko wasted no time before signing a law establishing public oversight of officials’ assets.

The resignation letter of Infrastructure Minister of Ukraine Andriy Pyvovarsky remains in force.