Новости за 03.04.2017

MOSCOW — Last Sunday, tens of thousands turned out across Russia to protest rampant corruption in the upper echelons of power. It was a thunderous roar that Russians were not happy with President Vladimir Putin’s government. Read the story here 

Ukraine got the money – or will soon: another $1 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund, bringing to $8.38 billion the amount lent to the nation since 2015. But the IMF set out its own list of demands that it expects Ukraine to fulfill by 2019 if it hopes to get another $9 billion […]

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on April 3 completed the third review of Ukraine’s economic program under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF), which enables the disbursement of SDR 734.05 million (about $1.00 billion). The allocation of this tranche will bring total disbursements under the arrangement to SDR 6.178 billion (about $8.38 […]

Defence minister Raimundas Karoblis says the situation is ‘terrifying’ and that there is a ‘danger to the territorial integrity’ of his country. Russia has developed the capability to launch an attack on the Baltic states with as little as 24 hours’ notice, limiting Nato’s options to respond, according to Lithuania’s intelligence service. Read more here. 

It`s still too soon to say who is responsible for the bombing of the subway in St. Petersburg, Russia—but it wouldn’t be surprising if international terrorists were responsible. Russia is fast replacing the United States as the No. 1 enemy of Al Qaeda, the Islamic State and other Sunni jihadist groups motivated by violent and […]

MP Artur Herasimov was elected a new chairman of the Bloc of Petro Poroshenko faction. Read more here. 

Russia and Belarus have resolved all the disputes between them over energy, the countries’ two presidents said on April 3 after meeting in the Russian city of St Petersburg. Russian President Vladimir Putin said the Russian and Belarussian governments will implement the two leaders’ agreement within the next 10 days, and that a roadmap had […]

Ukrainian television and radio channels are broadcasted on almost 70 percent of the territory of Luhansk and Donetsk regions. Information Policy Minister of Ukraine Yuri Stets said this in an interview with RBC-Ukraine. Read more here. 

Security has been tightened in Ukraine in the light of the explosions in the St. Petersburg metro on April 3, Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said. “Security has been tightened,” the Interior Ministry press service quoted Avakov as saying. An explosion occurred in a train car in the St. Petersburg metro between the stations Sennaya […]

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed the law on ratification of the convention between the government of Ukraine and Luxembourg to avoid double taxation and prevent tax evasion with respect to income and capital tax, the presidential press service has reported. According to the report, the document will contribute to the creation of an effective […]

A bomb went off in the St. Petersburg subway on April 3 afternoon. The explosion occurred at about 2:30 p.m., local time, at the Tekhnologicheskiy Institut station. Here’s what we know, so far. Read more here. 

Russia has developed the capability to launch an attack on the Baltic states with as little as 24 hours’ notice, limiting NATO’s options to respond other than to have military forces already deployed in the region, Lithuania’s intelligence service said on April 3. Read more here. 

Nine people have been killed and over 20 injured in St. Petersburg metro explosion, the National Antiterrorism Committee (NAC) said. “According to preliminary data, the explosion in the St. Petersburg metro killed nine people, over 20 people sustained injuries, including severe,” the NAC said in a statement obtained by Interfax.

MOSCOW – If the subway explosion that killed at least 10 people and injured 50 others in St. Petersburg turns out to have been a terrorist attack, it would be the latest in a long line of attacks targeting Russia in recent years. Read more here.

U.S. President Donald Trump used Twitter on April 3 morning to revive criticisms about Russia, Hillary Clinton, and Clinton’s campaign manager, John Podesta. Read more here.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has signed the law on ratification of the free trade agreement between Ukraine and Canada. According to the press service of the Ukrainian president, this agreement was signed during the visit to Ukraine of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on July 11. The agreement will enter into force on the […]

Families and rescuers searched desperately on April 2 through mud-plastered rubble for victims of flooding and landslides in Colombia that have killed 254 people, injured hundreds and devastated entire neighborhoods. Read more here.

Two years after the nation’s development goals were defined by President Petro Poroshenko in the administration’s Ukraine 2020 strategy, the Cabinet of Ministers during its meeting on April 3 has passed its own action plan to be completed also in three years. Top priorities, according to Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman, are privatization, healthcare, education, as […]

ST. PETERSBURG – Another explosive device has been discovered at the Ploshchad Vosstaniya station of the St. Petersburg metro, a city law enforcement source told Interfax. “An unexploded device has been discovered at the Ploshchad Vosstaniya station,” the source said. Interfax has no official confirmation of this information.

When Anatoliy Varfolomeyev, a blind resident of Kyiv, got his Labrador guide dog Tiger a few months ago, he expected that it would give him more freedom to move about the city independently. But when on the evening of April 2 he tried to use Kyiv’s underground railway, the metro, he was brought to an unexpected […]

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko on April 3 held a telephone conversation with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande, the presidential press service has reported. “The interlocutors discussed the situation in Donbas. Poroshenko condemned the continuing aggression on the part of Russia and the continuation of shelling by its military, as well as […]

The gray glacier of refuse across the field from Natalia Kryshtalyuk’s home reveals a mounting obstacle to Ukraine’s development: the country torn by war is also drowning in its own waste. Read more here.

Head of Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) Yuriy Lutsenko owns a 859 square meter house in Kyiv region’s Kyivo-Sviatoshynsky district, a land plot measuring 2,475 square meters and a 80 sq m garage, according to his electronic declaration. He also owns a collection of books from the end of the 19th century and start of […]

ODESA – The French Navy’s La Fayette frigate arrived in Odesa on March 31 for a friendly four-day visit. The French navy officers held protocol meetings with representatives of the Ukrainian Navy command, the Odesa regional administration and the Odesa city council, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian Navy Command said. The French ship was also used […]

Almost every day, Sen. John McCain (R) said on April 2, there’s some new revelation about Russia’s alleged attempts to interfere in the 2016 U.S. election. Read more here.