Новости за 14.08.2016

Employees of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine and the Prosecutor General’s Office have engaged in a scuffle as the conflict between the two agencies escalates.

An activist says she will continue to bring a banner calling for gender equality in Iran to Olympic events despite being asked to abandon the sign.

BEREZNIKI, Russia - While fears of the Zika virus have kept some people away from the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, for residents of one Russian town the more mosquito bites the better.

Swiss police said Sunday that the man who attacked people with a knife and burning liquid aboard a train died of his wounds, and so did a 34-year-old woman he had injured.

Russia's top sports official voiced outraged over the last-minute ban of Darya Klishina, the sole Russian track and field athlete who had been allowed to compete at the Rio Olympics.

A recently founded Dutch company is on the road to winning a tender to explore Ukraine’s largest shale gas field after the firm’s proposal was chosen as the best among a group of bidders.

A trial which highlighted the total degradation of the justice system under former President Viktor Yanukovych has re-emerged in post-Maidan Ukraine, and so far, the authorities have failed the challenge it poses.

More and more troops reportedly desert ranks of combined Russian-backed separatist forces fighting in eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian military intelligence reported on Sunday, August 14, on its Facebook page.

No Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and three were wounded over the last 24 hours in the eastern Ukraine combat zone.

Leader of the Ukrainian women's sabre fencing team, the full holder of the Olympic awards Olga Kharlan, and newly minted medalists in 2016, Alina Komashchuk, Olena Kravatska and Olena Voronina, have shared their first thoughts after winning the silver medal in the early hours of Sunday, August 14.

The epicenter of fighting in Donbas between the Ukrainian armed forces and the combined Russian-separatist forces has shifted closer to the Ukrainian controlled strategic port city of Mariupol, whose sector has seen 27 attacks in the past day, according to the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) headquarters.

Aug 14 Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko said on Sunday the suspension of long jumper Darya Klishina at the Rio Games may not be the "last provocation" against Russian sportsmen, TASS news agency reported.

Russian long jumper Darya Klishina -the only Russian athlete allowed to compete in the Rio Summer Games - was banned from Olympics 2016.

It is not yet time to restore local border traffic with Russia's Kaliningrad region, according to Poland's Deputy Interior Minister Jarosław Zieliński, Radio Polandreports.

Ministers have warned that the UK could take longer to leave the EU than expected, even as May prepares to trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, which would begin the process.

At least 90 people have been killed in overnight air strikes by the Syrian government and Russian forces across Syria, according to monitors and opposition activists.

The Ukrainian women's sabre fencing team has won silver at 2016 Rio Olympics.

DONETSK - It is Wednesday, May 4, 2016, and five grade 11 boys run gleefully on to the football field next to the school.

Canadian Foreign Minister Stephane Dion issued a statement where he commented on the increased tensions between Russia and Ukraine.

According to officials, at 02:40 on August 13 an OPEL Vivaro minibus collided with a DAF-240 truck near the village of Kryve Ozero on the Kyiv-Odesa highway.

Ukrainian border guards report seeing a stationary Lynx low volume aerostat and Mi-8 helicopters on the administrative border with occupied Crimea, the press service of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine told a UNIAN correspondent.

Russia should allow observers, including Western journalists, to attend upcoming military drills that could again put Ukraine on edge, just as Russian President Vladimir Putin has sharpened his rhetoric, the commander of the U.S. Army in Europe told Reuters.

While European countries have tended to normalize relations with Russia, this will not occur at the expense of concessions in matters of principle, in particular Russia's aggression against Ukraine, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the Council of Europe Dmytro Kuleba said on Radio Liberty.

As war fever returns in Ukraine, the question of why Russian President Vladimir Putin went from would-be modernizer to aggressive autocrat is being revived. Whatever the reason – fear for his safety, a sense of historical grievance, or both – Putin’s inability to reform Russia’s economy seems certain to be his downfall.

Germany's foreign minister says humanitarian aid is desperately needed in the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo and that it may be necessary to start an 'air bridge' to bring it in.