Новости за 24.05.2016

Ukrainian operating banks, excluding insolvent ones, posted Hr 11.5 billion, or $457.6 million, in aggregate loss as of May 1, which was lower by 16.6 percent year-over-year, according to the National Bank of Ukraine.

Technology company RevJet has moved its office and 20 employees to Saint John from Ukraine and is going to receive upwards of $400,000 from Opportunities New Brunswick to maintain the positions for three years.

MOSCOW—Russia managed to sell more than half of its planned Eurobond issue, according to people familiar with the matter.

The IMF mission was recently in Ukraine. The visit focused on the new government and its ability to stay on the reforms path. So what was the outcome?

The chairman of NATO's Military Committee, General Petr Pavel, told RFE/RL on May 24 that the alliance's planned buildup on its eastern flank is a direct response to Russian military actions in Georgia, Ukraine, and Syria.

The newly elected Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, Andriy Parubiy, wasted no time in announcing a series of internal reforms for the Ukrainian parliament, which has long been the most hated institution of public life. In the latest International Republican Institute (IRI) poll, 88 percent of Ukrainians viewed the institution unfavorably.

MOSCOW - Russia on May 24 raised $1.75 billion in its first Eurobond since sanctions were imposed on it over the conflict in Ukraine, four financial market sources said, with foreigners among the investors buying the paper.

The amount of imported cheese in the Russian market has grown for the first time since Russia introduced an embargo on Western food products in 2014, the Kommersant newspaper reported on May 24.

Public joint-stock company Ukrnafta on July 7, 2016 will hold a meeting of its shareholders where they will discuss the proposal of the supervisory board to introduce a financial readjustment plan and settle the problem of a Hr 11 billion tax debt to the budget, Naftogaz Ukrainy Board Chairman Andriy Kobolev has said.

The Principal Deputy Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), Alexander Hug, jointly with OSCE observers will visit Stanytsia Luhanska on May 25 to assess the overall security situation in the region.

The defenders of Ukrainian pilot Nadia Savchenko, convicted to 22 years of imprisonment for the murder of Russian journalists, will try to persuade her to appeal for pardon, because in March 2016 she banned her lawyers from filing appeal, petition for pardon or admission of guilt.

MOSCOW/VIENNA – The issue of sending the OSCE police mission to Donbas is being considered in the context of ensuring the security of elections in the region, while the organization has made proposals in this regard.

Ukraine's Interior Ministry in cooperation with the United States is implementing about 24 programs, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov has said at a meeting with Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection R. Gil Kerlikowske.

The loss of operating Ukrainian banks in January through April 2016 reached Hr 11.5 billion. This is 16.7 percent down year-over-year (Hr 13.8 billion), the regulator has reported on its website.

KHARKIV - Former Ukrainian Deputy Prosecutor General Davit Sakvarelidze has announced plans to create a new political party.

The situation with posting the list of journalists who were accredited in the so called Donetsk People's Republic on the Myrotvorets website should led to rules for media journalists reporting from the occupied territory of Ukraine, Ukraine's Vice Premier for European Integration Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze has stated.

The supervisory board of public joint-stock company Ukrnafta at a meeting on Wednesday backed the proposal to prepare the company for financial readjustment, a source at Naftogaz Ukrainy has told Interfax-Ukraine.

Seven Ukrainian soldiers have died in the country's war-torn east over the past 24 hours, the biggest casualty toll in a single day this year, Kyiv said on May 24.

Newly appointed Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko has announced plans to appoint Assistant U.S. Attorney of the U.S. Attorney's Office Economic Crime Unit Bohdan Vitvitsky as head of a commission to select members of the General Inspectorate under the Prosecutor General's Office.

The deputy minister of Ukraine on the temporarily occupied territories and internally displaced persons, the former head of the Luhansk regional civil and military administration, Heorhiy Tuka, has stated he has never been against elections in Donbas, but appropriate conditions are necessary for their implementation.

The good news: the rights of companies are violated far less blatantly in Ukraine than before. The bad news? The violations that do occur are becoming far more complex and subtle.

The area near Horlivka in Donetsk Oblast is one of the hardest-hit zones, constantly shelled by Russian-backed separatist forces. This is also where the Ukrainian army positions are located. And this is where we find Stas Stovban. This at-first-glance ordinary soldier is a legend among his peers.

The European Union is going to allocate € 20 million for implementation of the infrastructure projects in Ukraine.

Ukraine was in many ways unprepared for the war against the Russian-backed separatists of Russian-separatist forces in the country's east. Its army, after years of mismanagement and corruption, was left with just 6,000 combat-ready troops, and its hospitals had never had to deal with the kinds of horrific injuries sustained by both soldiers and civilians.

The next stage in the process of reforming the Interior Ministry will be setting up a police academy and replacement of driver licensing offices for new service centers, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov has stated.