Новости за 23.03.2017

All dressed up for a party but nowhere to go? Looking for an interesting venue for a business meeting, or an unusual location for a photoshoot? Then look no more: the Kyiv Post has scoured the Ukrainian capital for the best places for hire to hold these and other types of events. Attic Space Attic […]

Massive fires still raged on March 23 at the Ukrainian armed forces’ biggest ammunition depot, near Balakliya in Kharkiv Oblast some 600 kilometers east of Kyiv. The base was rocked by a series of massive explosions of unknown origin, although deliberate sabotage is one of the suspected causes. An invsetigation is under way. Further detonations […]

Independence Square, is perhaps the most familiar place in Ukraine, the scene of heroic and tragic events. In the winter of 2013-14, it was the focal point of the EuroMaidan Revolution that ousted President Viktor Yanukovych. It was also the place where many of the bodies of those shot by snipers on Feb. 20, 2014 […]

Babylon’ opera-circus “Babylon” is based on a biblical legend about the conflict between a man and god. Staged by outstanding Ukrainian director Vlad Troitskyi, the ancient legend is adapted to a modern setting. The performance mixes a range of musical styles, vocal techniques and unusual musical instruments. “BABYLON” opera-circus. March 24. 8 p.m. KPI Palace […]

A former Russian MP who fled to Ukraine last year has been shot dead outside a hotel in the capital. Denis Voronenkov and his bodyguard were attacked as they left the Premier Palace hotel in the centre of the city, reports say. Read more here. 

Ukrainian citizens haven’t been injured or killed during the terrorist attack in central London on March 22, the Department of Consular Service of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry reported. “London police have disclosed the list of dead and wounded, there are no Ukrainians among them,” the department said in a statement on Twitter on March 23. […]

Kyiv became the center for the world-known international arbitration practitioners on March 17, 2017 On March 17, 2017 the International Commercial Arbitration Court at the Ukrainian CCI jointly with Vasil Kisil and Partners hosted the conference “International Arbitration: Emerging Changes” in Kyiv, Ukraine. Around 250 international arbitration practitioners from the USA, Europe and Ukraine, as […]

Officers from a special unit of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) have been assigned to guard Maria Maksakova, the widow of former Russian State Duma deputy Denis Voronenkov, who was assassinated in Kyiv on March 23, and former Duma deputy Ilya Ponomaryov. Maksakova, a prominent opera singer, is also a former State Duma deputy. “It’s […]

Ukraine Central Bank Deputy Governor Kateryna Rozhkova said on March 23 that the subsidiaries of Russian banks in Ukraine, hit with new sanctions from Kyiv, are stable and don’t pose a threat to the financial system. Read more here.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) plans to announce a new date of an Executive Board meeting on the completion of the third revision of the EFF program for Ukraine in the near future, IMF spokesperson Gerry Rice has said. “The IMF Executive Board meeting on Ukraine has been postponed to allow the staff time to […]

The killer, who shot dead former Russian Duma deputy Denis Voronenkov in central Kyiv on March 23, has died at Kyiv city clinic hospital No. 17 from gunshot wounds sustained during an exchange of fire. “The murderer of the Duma ex-deputy Voronenkov has died in hospital,” Larysa Sarhan, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian prosecutor general, […]

The investigation into the assassination of former State Duma deputy Denis Voronenkov is probing into two theories, i.e. his murder as a witness to the former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych case and as a witness to contraband in the Federal Security Service (FSB) structure, Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko said. “At the time preliminary theories […]

Investigators are establishing the identity of the assassin of former State Duma deputy Denis Voronenkov, who had documents of a Ukrainian citizen on him, Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko said. “Yes, his identity is being verified, documents are being checked,” he said at a briefing in Kyiv on March 23. The prosecutor general also noted […]

WASHINGTON – U.S. Treasury Department agents have recently obtained information about offshore financial transactions involving President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, as part of a federal anti-corruption probe into his work in Eastern Europe, The Associated Press has learned. Read more here.

According to estimates made by LGBTI Human Rights Nash Mir Center, there are at least 100-200 thousand same-sex couples live in Ukraine at the moment. Two men or two women are emotionally attached to each other, jointly share joy and sorrow, maintain a common household, acquire property perhaps, and sometimes such couples raise children together. […]

The Minister of Defense of Ukraine Stepan Poltorak has informed about the strengthening of security and defense in military warehouses throughout Ukraine after an act of sabotage at artillery depots near Balaklia, Kharkiv region. “This is not the first time when an act of sabotage is conducted in our strategic facilities … The decision has […]

The host of this year’s Eurovision song contest, Ukraine, has banned Russia’s entry from the country after it emerged that she performed in Crimea back in 2015. Read more here.

MOSCOW – None of the Russian television stations will broadcast this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, a VGTRK television company reporter said in a Rossiya 24 TV channel program posted on the vesti.ru website. “No one will go [to the Eurovision Song Contest] from Russia this year. Consequently, no one will broadcast this contest [in Russia] […]

The ongoing scandal around emerging links between Donald Trump’s associates and the Russian establishment found a new twist on March 22. According to an exclusive Associated Press report, the former Trump campaign head Paul Manafort contacted Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska in 2005 proposing a strategy to “greatly benefit” Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government. Read more […]

A new regulation approved by Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine has sparked fears that apartments abandoned by people who fled the fighting in the region could be seized on a mass scale. Watch the video here.

The Ukrainian military said unknown saboteurs blew up a warehouse storing tank ammunition at a military base in the east of the country early on March 23, but nobody was hurt. Read more here.

Five people were killed and about 40 injured in London on March 23 after a car plowed into pedestrians and a suspected Islamist-inspired attacker stabbed a policeman close to Britain’s parliament. Read more here.

Explosions with varying degrees of intensity were recorded on the premises of a military warehouse in Balaklia in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region as of 7:00 a.m. on March 22 morning, the press service of the Ukrainian State Service for Emergency Situations said. Around 15,000 people are being evacuated from the possible danger area. Passenger traffic via the […]

The White House on March 22 sought to again distance itself from President Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, who is under increasing scrutiny over his connections to Russian business interests. Read more here.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The “Ukraine Macroeconomic Situation – February 2017” analytical report is found below and as an attachment to this communication.  The monthly macroeconomic situation report is prepared by the SigmaBleyzer multinational private equity firm, www.SigmaBleyzer.com, and The Bleyzer Foundation (TBF), www.BleyzerFoundation.org, Kyiv, Ukraine, who are members of the U.S.-Ukraine Business Council (USUBC), http://www.USUBC.org. Read the report here