Новости за 11.05.2017

Tattoo Collection Festival Tattoo Collection gathers artists to show that tattoos are not just for criminals, as many people believed in Soviet times, but art that enlightens one’s soul. Visitors will also witness an interactive Biker show and music performances. Tattoo Collection Festival. May 19-21. 9 a.m. – 8 p.m. VDNH (1 Akademika Hlushkova Av.) […]

An ex-SBU state security service officer and another man spent hours in a parked car at night on Ivana Franka Street as a bomb was planted 120 meters away under the car of Pavel Sheremet, a Belarusian-Ukrainian journalist killed when the explosive detonated as he drove to work on the morning of July 20. This […]

Huawei began as a small opera­tion when it was founded in 1987 by Ren Zhengfei, a former engineer in China’s People’s Liberation Army. It has since then grown into a global multinational headquartered in Shenzhen, in China’s Guangdong Province. At first manufacturing for industry, it gradually expanded into telecommunications and consumer electronics, releasing its first […]

Ukrainian officials risk losing $3.65 billion in Chinese loans targeted for Ukraine’s energy sector, with Economy Minister Stepan Kubiv arranging last-ditch meetings to save the deal while on a trip to Beijing. The credit line — initially agreed in 2012 under President Viktor Yanukovych for coal gasification projects — is being offered by the state-owned […]

In China, there is a phrase companies use when they are scouring the globe to find the location for their next investment: “country shopping.” Alexander Borodkin, of the Kyiv-based law firm Vasil Kisil and Partners, remembers the term well from his visit in July to Shanghai and Beijing. As a partner responsible for attracting new […]

When it comes to doing business with the Chinese, it pays to take things slowly and steadily. Ukraine has learned the slow part quite well, but needs to improve on the steady part. Chinese businesspeople think decades ahead, use cultural events as a backdrop for negotiations and avoid complaining when something goes wrong, said Ruslan […]

Ukraine’s exports to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and elsewhere in Asia slumped by 40 percent after Russia banned the transit of Ukrainian goods through its territory in the winter of 2016. But inspired by the Silk Road – an ancient network of trade routes that linked the Far East and Europe – Ukrainian authorities found alternative routes, […]

Some 122 million Chinese traveled abroad as tourists in 2016, spending $109.8 billion, the Chinese Tourism Academy estimates, with especially strong numbers in Thailand, Japan, Russia and the United Kingdom. But only 20,000 Chinese tourists made it to Ukraine the same year. While a record number, it still represents less than 1 percent of Chinese […]

Defense lawyer for Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash, Dan Webb, on May 9 filed a motion asking U.S. District Court Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer to dismiss the case launched by the U.S. Justice Ministry against his client, according to Chicago Tribune. “The Indictment fails to allege a single illicit act by Firtash that either occurred in the […]

Timebelle, a band that represents Switzerland in Eurovision 2017, has an old tradition to hug each other before getting on stage. They are not just a group of musicians, who work together, they are a family. While the lead vocalist Miruna Manescu is having rest in her hotel room after getting cold right before the […]

Ukrainian police investigating the car-bomb killing of a Belarus-born journalist are sifting through a new documentary film’s claims about the unsolved case, including that a current or former Ukrainian security agent was present when the explosive was planted. Read more here.

Suspected Russia-backed hackers have launched exploratory cyber attacks against the energy networks of the Baltic states, sources said, raising security concerns inside the West’s main military alliance, NATO. Read more here.

The European Council on May 11 approved visa-free travel for Ukrainians, fulfilling a key promise to cement ties with Kyiv as it remains embroiled in a deadly conflict with Russian-backed separatists. Read more here.

Ukraine will appoint a new central bank governor probably by September, the country’s finance minister said on May 11, and is planning a $1 billion eurobond to make its first return to debt markets since its IMF bailout. Read more here.

A U.S. far-right online activist credited with initially sharing on Twitter hacked emails from the French presidential campaign of centrist Emmanuel Macron is the latest conservative media figure to receive White House access from the Trump administration. Read more here.

On May 10 was Valeria Gontareva’s last working day as head of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU). From May 11, she is on leave until the Verkhovna Rada accepts her resignation. Read more here.

Imri Ziv, a 25-year-old Eurovision 2017 contestant from Israeli better known as Imri, started singing when he was just two years old. “I think I sang before I started to speak,” he says laughing, “I sang ‘We Are the Champions’ by Queen. Since then I was just in love with music, singing, acting and the […]

Donald Trump, the President of the United States, along with Steve Mnuchin, the treasury secretary, and Gary Cohn, the director of the National Economic Council, sat down for a conversation with editors from The Economist on May 4, 2017. What follows is a lightly edited transcript. Read the transcript here.

LONDON – Sprinkle the sequins, spark up the disco lights and get ready for battle – it’s time for the Eurovision Song Contest, a celebration of kitsch and cheesy pop with an undercurrent of politics and patriotism. More than a singing contest, it’s diplomacy in dancing shoes. Read more here.

An unabashed Donald Trump called for warmer US relations with Russia on May 10 even as his firing of Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey sparked pressure from Democrats for an independent probe of his election campaign’s alleged ties to Moscow. Read more here.

Every time FBI Director James B. Comey appeared in public, an ever-watchful President Trump grew increasingly agitated that the topic was the one that he was most desperate to avoid: Russia. Read more here.

As the Eurovision Song Contest finals approach, last year’s winner, Ukraine’s Jamala, told DW about the politics of the music spectacle. She also explained why she’s worried about the future of Crimea. Read more here.

FBI Director James Comey, days before President Donald Trump fired him, told lawmakers he sought more resources for his agency’s probe into possible collusion between Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia to sway the 2016 U.S. election, a congressional source said on May 10. Read more here.

Vice President Mike Pence has told his Ukrainian counterpart that the US remains firmly committed the cause of Ukrainian sovereignty. At the same time, Trump met Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Read more here.