Новости за 20.05.2017

Kyiv will host KidsMovieFest international children’s film festival on May 20-21. Read more here   

CHISINAU – Moldova’s pro-Russian president, Igor Dodon, has accused the European Union of providing “geopolitical assistance” to his country in order to keep a series of pro-EU governments in power in Chisinau. Read more here

Head of Ukraine’s State Border Guard Service Viktor Nazarenko has said that the authority is finishing works to create the intellectual guarding model for the state border with Russia in Kharkiv region. Works are underway in Sumy and Luhansk regions. “Today we are finishing of all the planned measures in Kharkiv region. We have started […]

Ukraine’s State Border Guard Service is ready for the visa free regime with the European Union (EU) and expects that passenger flow would grow by up to 30% in the first day of introducing it. “As for our forecasts and expectations for June 11, we have studied the experience of our Moldovan and Georgian colleagues. […]

The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) has confirmed that its detectives are investigating cases against two lawmakers – Yevhen Deidei and Andriy Lozovy – after analyzing e-declarations. “In response to mass media inquiries on the request of the Ukrainian Prosecutor General to remove parliamentary immunity from three deputies against whom NABU is investigating cases, […]

The three biggest Ukrainian mobile operators Kyivstar, Vodafone Ukraine, and Lifecell have started blocking access to Russian websites recently sanctioned by a May 16 order of President Petro Poroshenko, in advance of the deadline to comply by the new regulation. The sanctions list includes such social networks as Vkontakte and Odnoklassniki, and also Mail.ru — […]

BERLIN – German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko agreed Saturday to try to improve the security situation in eastern Ukraine and return to implementing the Minsk ceasefire deal after an upsurge in violence there. A ceasefire agreement signed in February 2015 in Minsk that aims to end the conflict between Ukrainian government […]

GRANSEE – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko expects that G7 summit in Sicily would express the common position with Ukraine. “It is important that this meeting is held before G7 summit. We hope that the Sicilian meeting will display the unity of the civilized world and Ukraine,” he told reporters before the meeting with German Chancellor […]

GRANSEE – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said that decisive steps should be taken to force Russia to fulfill Minsk agreements. “Of course, now we have another situation when Russian President Vladimir Putin issued an order regarding recognition of fake IDs, the Russian government actually spread the ruble zone to the occupied territory of Ukraine, […]

Ukrainian Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak has said that militants are fully maintained by the Russian Federation receiving material and technical support. “Ukrainian units are constantly shelled by pro-Russian terrorist troops. Maintenance and logistical support of these troops is entirely provided by Russian Federation,” the minister said in Vilnius (Lithuania) speaking to journalists, according to a […]

Ukrainian authorized agencies have banned around 40 Russian actors and singers from entering Ukraine over their illegal visits of Crimea, Head of Ukraine’s State Border Guard Service Viktor Nazarenko has said. “As for artists and other public figures from Russia who visited Crimea, today we have revealed around 40 people. We are thankful for the […]

“On May 20, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko will go on a one-day working visit to Germany at the invitation of Federal Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel,” the report says. Negotiations between the two leaders will be held in the residence of the German Federal Government, Schloss Meseberg, in the town of Gransee, Brandenburg. Read […]

The former FBI director James Comey is to testify in front of cameras following his shock sacking, it has been announced, as a series of damaging revelations pile further pressure on the embattled US president, Donald Trump. Comey, who was sacked by Trump on 9 May in the midst of an investigation into the president’s […]

The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, hearing the Ukraine versus Russia case where Kyiv accuses Moscow of violating the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination has set the date for […]

The New York Times has reported that President Trump told Russian officials that his firing of former FBI Director James Comey had eased “great pressure” Trump faced. The newspaper cited a document detailing the White House meeting Trump held with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russia’s ambassador to Washington in the Oval Office the […]

MOSCOW – Russia on Friday condemned a strike by the US-led coalition against Syrian pro-regime forces as “illegitimate” and said it could harm efforts to fight Islamic State jihadists. “It is illegitimate, unlawful and yet another gross violation of Syria s sovereignty,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in televised comments while on a trip to […]

In the Trump White House, it’s getting lonely at the top. President Donald Trump’s fellow Republicans in Congress are showing signs of going their own way, both on politics and policy, determined to salvage what they can of their agenda on healthcare and tax reform in the wake of one of the most difficult weeks […]

PENTAGON — U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis said North Koreans probably learned a lot from their latest rocket launch, adding that attempts to resolve the North Korea missile crisis through military force would be “tragic.” Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon on Friday, Mattis declined to say whether the missile North Korea launched earlier this […]