Новости за 13.01.2017

Civilians living in eastern Ukraine and the Russian-annexed Ukrainian territory of Crimea need better protection from abuses and persecution, rights watchdog Human Rights Watch said in its latest world report, issued on Jan. 12. Speaking at a media briefing in Kyiv on the day the report was released, Tanya Cooper, Ukraine researcher at Human Rights […]

WASHINGTON – A senior U.S. official says the Obama administration is aware of frequent contacts between President-elect Donald Trump’s top national security adviser and Russia’s ambassador to the United States. The official says the contacts happened on the day President Barack Obama expelled dozens of Russian officials from the U.S. and imposed sanctions as punishment […]

Ukrainska Pravda, an online newspaper, on Jan. 13 published the names of 400 people who were awarded weapons by Interior Minister Arsen Avakov in 2014 and 2015. The newspaper cited law enforcement sources. Avakov’s generous distribution of firearms has been criticized as often unwarranted, and is seen by some of his opponents as a way […]

The Republic of Belarus has introduced temporary restrictions on poultry imports from Odesa and Chernivtsi regions due to bird flu outbreaks, according to instructions dated Jan. 4, posted on the website of the Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry’s Veterinary and Food Control Department. The ban is imposed on imports of live poultry and poultry meat, […]

Barack Obama’s envoy to Brussels warned Donald Trump against the “lunacy” of backing an EU break-up, saying Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage may have given the incoming U.S. president a false impression that more countries might follow Britain out of the bloc. Anthony Gardner, a banker who has run U.S. relations with the European Union for […]

Less than two weeks into 2017 Ukraine has already used up its 5,200-ton quota of duty-free honey exports to the European Union, an agriculture ministry official said on Jan. 13. Producers have also used up the bulk of Ukraine’s sugar quota to the EU (64 percent of 12,834 tons) and the quota for grape and […]

Chinese and Germans are among dozens of investors taking Ukraine up on its offer to turn the grounds of one of the world’s worst nuclear disasters into a massive solar park. Thirteen international investors are among the 39 groups seeking Ukraine permission to install about 2 gigawatts of solar panels inside the radioactive exclusion zone […]

Serbia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs says authorities have detained two Serbian citizens wanted in connection with an alleged coup attempt in Montenegro. The ministry confirmed to RFE/RL on Jan. 13 that Predrag Bogicevic and Nemanja Ristic have been arrested on suspicion of involvement in the alleged plot to overthrow Montenegro’s government, which received an invitation […]

In the face of a sharp drop in the value of the hryvnia, Ukraine’s national currency, the country’s central bank is to sell $100 million on the interbank currency market. The hryvnia weakened to Hr 28.75 per dollar on Jan. 13, down from Hr 27.40 during the previous week. “Under such circumstances, the NBU is […]

MINSK – The Belarusian Foreign Ministry is ready to host this year’s first meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine, Foreign Ministry spokesman Dmitry Mironchik told Interfax. “We are ready for the conduct of a session of the Contact Group, as well as all of its four working subgroups,” Mironchik said. It was reported […]

Russian Agriculture Minister Alexander Tkachev, who is on a European Union list of Russians banned from entering the bloc, will next week attend a meeting in Berlin with his G20 counterparts at Germany’s invitation. European Union leaders last July extended economic sanctions against Russia first imposed in 2014 after it annexed Crimea and went on […]

Ukraine’s Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman and U.S. Vice-President Joseph Biden will meet in Kyiv on Jan. 16, and not on Jan. 15 as was announced earlier, according to the Ukrainian government’s website. “On January 16, Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman will hold a meeting with U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden. The event starts at 07:30,” […]

President-elect Donald Trump renewed his criticism of the intelligence community on Jan. 13 morning, blaming it once again for leaking an unverified report containing compromising and salacious allegations about him to the media and citing the Russian government as proof that the dossier’s allegations are false. That report, which had circulated for months among government officials […]

Hryvnia quotations against the dollar on the interbank currency market on Jan. 13 fell to Hr 27.55/27.70 to the dollar by the middle of trade, a broker at a commercial bank has told a UNIAN correspondent. Hryvnia quotes against the euro have settled at Hr 29.3242/29.4811, while those against the Russian ruble have settled at Hr […]

Joe Biden will go on one final overseas jaunt as vice president, travelling to Ukraine and Switzerland, the White House announced. “In Ukraine the Vice President will participate in bilateral meetings with President Poroshenko and Prime Minister Groysman. The Vice President’s trip to Ukraine will underscore U.S. support – and highlight his personal involvement in providing […]

VILNIUS, Lithuania – A top NATO official says the deployment of US troops in Poland at Russia’s doorstep is a “proportionate and measured” move. In an interview published on Jan. 13 by the Baltic News Service, NATO Deputy Secretary General Rose Gottemoeller acknowledged that Russians “are concerned about what NATO is doing.” Read more here.

Three Ukrainian servicemen have been wounded in eastern Ukraine in the past 24 hours, Ukrainian Defense Ministry spokesman for military issues Oleksandr Motuzianyk has said. “No Ukrainian servicemen died in the hostilities over the past day but three suffered injuries; that happened near Popasna,” he told a press briefing in Kyiv on Jan. 13.

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The EU must take better care of its own security in the Trump era and must establish control of immigration, German chancellor Angela Merkel said. The German leader, who is seeking re-election this year, spoke on a visit to Belgium and Luxembourg on Jan. 12. Read more here.

U.S. President Barack Obama surprised Vice President Joe Biden on Jan. 12 by awarding him the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction in an emotional White House ceremony that celebrated their partnership over eight years in office. “This is an extraordinary man,” Obama said of his friend and running mate at a surprise ceremony with staff, […]

WASHINGTON – Two leading national security picks for Donald Trump’s incoming administration warned that Russia is seeking to disrupt U.S. and European institutions and advocated an aggressive military and intelligence approach to counter Moscow. The comments by James Mattis and Mike Pompeo, Trump’s picks to run the Pentagon and the CIA, respectively, contrast with the […]

National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) has started the pretrial investigation against Head of the National Bank of Ukraine Valeriya Gontareva and Head of the Individuals Deposit Guarantee Fund Kostiantyn Vorushylin, prosecutor of the Prosecutor General’s Office Vladyslav Kutsenko wtrote on his Facebook page. A copy of an official letter, written by the Prosecutor General’s […]

Nations in Europe, where Germany and France this year hold elections, are erecting defenses to counter possible Russian cyber attacks and disinformation to sway Western politics, but intelligence experts say this might be too little and too late. The issue of Russian “influence operations” has taken on new urgency after U.S. intelligence agencies released a […]

Britain’s world number one Andy Murray will play Ukraine’s Ilya Marchenko in the Australian Open first round. Murray was drawn in the same quarter as Roger Federer – meaning the pair could face each other in the last eight. Read more here.

Representative of the international human rights organization Human Rights Watch in Ukraine Tatyana Cooper said that the level of homophobia and transphobia among Ukrainian officials remains strong. The fact that the level of homophobia and transphobia among Ukrainian officials remains strong is a cause for concern, Cooper said during the presentation of the Human Rights […]