Новости за 18.03.2016

An unknown assailant tossed a can of flammable liquid at the house of Victoria Voytsitska, a Samopomich Party lawmaker active in battling corruption in the energy sector. It caused a brief fire but no injuries.

Anton Shevtsov, ex-police chief of Vinnytsya Oblast, was arrested by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) when trying to cross the border to Russia late on March 17.

KYIV. March 18 (Interfax-Ukraine) - Ukraine's National Council of Television and Radio Broadcasting has banned 13 Russian channels, while permitting to broadcast one French channel – Mezzo Live HD in Ukraine

KYIV. March 18 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Ukraine's Minister of Foreign Affairs Pavlo Klimkin and European Commissioner for Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn have discussed the possibility of the European Union's supporting the implementation of the civil service reform in Ukraine.

KYIV. March 18 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk has said that a financial stabilization plan for public joint-stock company Ukrnafta should be designed.

When she moved into her office as deputy speaker of Parliament a little over a year ago, Oksana I. Syroyid hung a large oil painting called “The Edge of the Sky Is Glowing.” It shows a man turning his back on the viewer while flames burn on the horizon.

Ukraine has identified nearly 50 people it considers responsible for the "illegal detention and falsified trial" of Ukrainian military pilot Nadia Savchenko and has urged the European Union to impose sanctions against them.

KYIV. March 18 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The sanctions list of persons involved in the case of Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has passed to European Parliament President Martin Schulz and President of the European Council Donald Tusk, contains 46 names, Radio Poland has reported.

The Brit claimed the 39-year-old's world titles in their first bout in Dusseldorf last year - and they look set to do battle once more

With only three weeks left to a referendum in the Netherlands on Ukraine’s association agreement with the European Union, Ukraine is stepping up efforts for the uphill battle to win support of Dutch voters for the treaty.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has confirmed that five Russian servicemen had died during the course of the campaign in Syria and 33 billion roubles ($480 million) were spent by the Ministry of Defence on the operation itself.

DZHANKOI, SIMFEROPOL, KERCH, Crimea — The soldiers carry assault rifles and stand guard, some of them wearing black balaclavas to protect their faces. No more than 100 meters and a bridge separate them from the nearest Ukrainian positions. There, against the gray sky, a blue and yellow flag flickers above a makeshift hut.

Dancers from two celebrated groups -- Ukraine's Virsky Ensemble and Georgia's Rustavi Ensemble -- are touring Ukrainian cities with an acrobatic dance showdown.

The 38th Ukrainian Fashion Week that started on March 17 gathers 86 fashion designers who present their Autumn-Winer 2016-2017 collections in Mystetsky Arsenal. Fashion Week is one of the biggest events in Ukrainian fashion industry with 18,000 people expected to visit shows.

Lithuania's foreign minister says Europe is engaged in an information war with Russia, and losing.

Ukraine's top 100 largest state-run companies saw revenue of Hr 187 billion in 2015, a 45.1% rise compared to a year ago, First Deputy Economic Development and Trade Minister Yulia Kovaliv said at a government meeting on Friday.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said Ukraine is preparing a new list of persons against whom sanctions should be imposed in connection with their involvement in the torture of 11 Ukrainian political prisoners.

MOSCOW - Russian warplanes are continuing to conduct airstrikes in Syria, Russian military officials said Friday, making clear that the Kremlin intends to maintain muscular support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad despite an announced drawdown earlier this week.

Lawmakers of Kyiv City Council at a plenary session on Thursday passed the comprehensive targeted program on increasing energy efficiency and developing city's utilities network for 2016-2020.

The European Council and the European Parliament in April this year will receive legislative initiatives on granting Ukraine a visa-free regime with EU countries from the middle of this year, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has said.

The militants have deployed main battle tanks and Grad multiple rocket launchers in the city of Luhansk and the towns of Krasniy Luch and Horlivka, according to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.

Joint Ukraine-British military exercises are underway at a base near Zhytomyr, in the western part of the country.

The Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office (PGO) puts pressure on the defendants in the case against ex-Justice Minister Olena Lukash in order to obtain necessary incriminating evidence, the witness and suspect in the case and her lawyers have said.

The chairman of the Union of Theatrical Personalities of Ukraine, film and theater director and People's Artist of Ukraine Les Taniuk has died, the presidential representative in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, MP from the Bloc of Petro Poroshenko faction Stepan Kubiv, has said.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk at a meeting with European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management Christos Stylianides has thanked the EU for humanitarian aid provided since the start of the conflict in Donbas, including a new package of such assistance in the amount of 20million euros.