Новости за 12.05.2017

The United States warned China on May 12 that North Korea’s attendance at a weekend summit on China’s new Silk Road could affect the participation of other countries, casting a shadow over what is Beijing’s biggest diplomatic event of 2017. Read more here.

Leaked alleged NSA hacking tools appear to be behind a massive ransomware campaign disrupting hospitals and companies across Europe. Read more here.

A huge cyberattack brought disruption to Britain’s health system on May 12 and infected many Spanish companies with malicious software, and security researchers said a dozen other countries may be affected. Read more here.

Song “Time” to be performed by Ukrainian O.Torvald band at Eurovision-2017 song contest was transcribed into sign language. The video was published on the official Youtube page of Saatchi & Saatchi Ukraine advertising agency. Read more here.

On May 11, President Trump tweeted something kind of strange — a photo of him with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, pasted right next to a picture of him beaming near the gruff-looking Foreign Minister of Ukraine, Pavlo Klimkin. Read more here.

International Human Rights Organization Amnesty International demands from Ukrainian Government to hold an open competition for the ombudsmen post. Oksana Pokalchyuk the Chief Acting Officer of the Amnesty International claimed this in her interview for Ukrainian News. Read more here.

Ukrainians will enjoy visa-free travel to over 100 countries in the near future, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has said. “As of now, we have visa-free travel with 52 countries, and after the entire Schengen zone opens for us, we will be connected to 26 EU countries and four more states. We are negotiating visa-free […]

Chancellor Angela Merkel said Germany’s economic overhaul more than a decade ago could be a model for Emmanuel Macron, setting the tone for his visit to Berlin a day after his inauguration. Read more here.

The Ukrainian High Council of Justice has dismissed 91 Crimean judges for committing a significant disciplinary offense. The High Council of Justice adopted a corresponding decision at its meeting on May 11, having considered the issue of the dismissal of 98 judges of courts in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol. […]

The Ukrainian army positions in Donbas have been shelled 22 times since midnight on May 12, one serviceman has been injured, the press center for the Ukrainian military headquarters said on Facebook on May 12. The enemy fired various weapons in the direction of Mariupol near Shyrokyne, Vodiane, Pavlopil, Hnutove and Chermalyk, the press center said. […]

Iceland claimed the willingness to establish the visa-free regime with Ukraine following EU. Andriy Olefirov, the Ukrainian Ambassador to Finland and Iceland, reported this at Twitter. Read more here.

Ukrainian Minister of Infrastructure Volodymyr Omelyan has delivered certificates of merit to members of the crew of a Ukrainian rescue boat, which was involved in an incident in the Black Sea off the port city of Skadovsk in Ukraine’s Kherson region. “They did not surrender, they rescued both themselves and the Ukrainian boat… I would […]

An extensive cyberattack hit Britain’s National Health Service on May 12, blocking doctors from gaining access to patient files, causing emergency rooms to divert patients and stoking fears about hackers’ ability to wreak havoc on vital public services. Read more here.

The hearing at the suit of Ukraine about violation of UN convention on the Law of the Sea by Russia takes place in the International Court of Justice in The Hague. Pavlo Klimkin the Minister of the Foreign Affairs of Ukraine reported this during the briefing that was broadcasted by 112 Ukraine. Read more here.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko will give a press conference on Sunday, May 14. The press conference will be held on the occasion of the Europe Day and the country’s getting a visa-free regime with the European Union, according to the president’s press service. The press conference will begin at 15:00 in the presidential administration.

Lawyers for President Donald Trump said May 12 that a review of his last 10 years of tax returns did not reflect “any income of any type from Russian sources,” but the letter included exceptions related to previously cited income generated from a beauty pageant and sale of a Florida estate. Read more here.

The Infrastructure Ministry of Ukraine is negotiating with the German government about the use of 100 million euro in the framework of the previously reached agreement on granting Ukraine an unrelated financial loan with a total amount of 500 million euro for upgrading suburban electric trains for Ukrzaliznytsya, the ministry’s press service has said. “It […]

The United States may engage in the implementation of the Minsk Agreements in Donbas ‘in a variety of ways’, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has said. “The U.S. is ready to get involved in order to make Russia comply with the Minsk Agreements,” Klimkin said at a press briefing in Kyiv on May 12, in […]

PrivatBank (Dnipro) has proposed repaying Hr 13.8 billion debt on refinancing to the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), which will free ex-co-owner of the financial institution Ihor Kolomoisky from personal guarantees, NBU Head Valeriya Gontareva said. “The bank wants to repay this refinancing to us, but then they will rid Kolomoisky of all the guarantees […]

One day before the grand final of the Eurovision Song Contest, all names of the 26 finalists are finally known. For the full list check out the Kyiv Post story with profiles for each contestant. The grand final will be held on May 13, the show will start at 10 p.m. Kyiv time. Last dress rehearsals […]

Macedonia’s Eurovision entrant squealed with delight as her fiance proposed to her in front of an audience of millions during the second semi-final in Kyiv. Read more here.

In a statement marking the long-awaited EU visa waiver for Ukrainian citizens, Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko said on May 12 his country had now completed its “break up with the Russian Empire”. Read more here.

Eurovision isn’t all about songs. It’s about business, too. Initially, it was to have cost Ukraine about $24 million to host the show. Instead, Ukraine’s taxpayer-funded national broadcaster is spending $32 million on the contest – an eye-popping sum for a country at war, and almost three times the amount spent by last year’s Eurovision […]

While there are numerous city guides available online and in bookstores, to see Kyiv’s best tourist spots nothing beats being shown around the city by one of the locals. So a new Show Around service has been set up to connect visitors to the Ukrainian capital with locals who are ready to show them the […]

The Schengen Area is a zone composed of 26 European countries that have officially abolished border controls between their territories. Watch the infographics here.