Новости за 12.06.2017

Kyiv police have uncovered and arrested members of a criminal group, which reportedly assisted individuals on the wanted list to receive Ukrainian citizenship. Kyiv city’s Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) said on June 12 that investigators had established that members of the group hatched plots involving Ukraine’s State Migration Service, to which forged documents were proffered […]

Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs Witold Waszczykowski announced that US President Donald Trump will discuss Russia-Ukraine war during his working visit to the country, according to “Polish radio”. “The preparation for the visit of American President Donal Trump to Poland continues. Foreign Ministry assumes that US President will come to Poland on July 5 in […]

Ukraine’s petrochemical plant Karpatnaftokhim has resumed operations after five years of downtime, according to the company’s press service. Read more here. 

Twenty-four out of the 68 criminal cases sent by the National Anti-corruption Agency of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) to courts after pretrial investigations are over and indictments have been drawn up still remain unattended. “At the same time, some cases have been left unattended by court workers for more than […]

US Attorney General Jeff Sessions will testify in public to the Senate Intelligence Committee on June 13 on his role in the Russia investigation. Mr Sessions, who wrote to the Senate Intelligence Committee at the weekend, has asked that the hearing be open. Read more here. 

Kyiv prosecutor’s office and National Police busted group of people who contributed to legalization of those wanted in Russia for grave or particularly grave crimes. As it was reported on Facebook by Nadiya Maksymets, the press secretary of Kyiv prosecutor’s office, Oleksandr Dakar, who shot volunteers Adam Osmaev and Amina Okueva, received documents in terms […]

Opposition politician Alexei Navalny has been taken to the Moscow Simonovsky District Court, where an administrative case over the breaching of the rules of holding rallies and disobedience to police by him will be tried. Navalny “has been brought to the Simonovsky District Court,” his lawyer Vadim Kobzev tweeted. As earlier reported, two protocols dealing […]

The Confederations Cup is heading to unfamiliar territory in Russia, a country that will be hosting its first major multi-city soccer tournament. The eight-team event, which runs from June 17-July 2, is a key test of readiness for next year’s World Cup. Read more here. 

Smirnoff has mocked US President Donald Trump’s alleged ties to Russia with a new advertising campaign. The vodka brand’s new ad posters are emblazoned with the message: “Made in America, but we’d be happy to speak about our ties to Russia under oath.” Read more here. 

Baton-wielding riot police broke up anti-corruption protests and detained hundreds of demonstrators in Moscow and other Russian cities on June 12 soon after arresting opposition leader Alexei Navalny. The protests, called by Navalny, a strong critic of Russian President Vladmir Putin, drew thousands of people and were some of the biggest in Russia since 2012. […]

MOSCOW – Riot police in Moscow and St. Petersburg have detained more than 200 anticorruption protesters at unsanctioned demonstrations organized by opposition politician Aleksei Navalny. Read more here.

Two cyber security companies said they have uncovered a sophisticated piece of malicious software capable of causing power outages by ordering industrial computers to shut down electricity transmission. Read more here.

On June 12, Ukraine’s patrol police announced recruitment for 2300 new vacancies for the road patrol units. The same day, hundreds of patrol policemen stepped onto the roadways across the country – it is their first day at work. Read more here.

As Ukraine celebrated the abolishing of its visa regime with the European Union on June 11, the war in the country’s eastern Donbas region sharply increased in intensity. Seven Ukrainian soldiers were killed over a period of three days. Four were killed and 14 more reported wounded over the weekend of June 10-11, with the […]

Seven Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in just three days in renewed fighting with Russian-backed separatists in the east of the country, the military said June 12. Read more here.

Some 22 separatists were killed and 60 wounded in Donbas last week, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s spokesman, Andriy Lysenko, said. “The confirmed losses of the enemy over the past week are 22 dead, and 60 wounded militants, more than half of the losses fall on the Bakhmutka highway and Avdiyivka,” Lysenko said at a briefing in […]

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed a bill banning the production and public use of Saint George (Guards) ribbons and introducing administrative responsibility for this. The Verkhovna Rada passed bill No. 2987 on amendments to the Code of Ukraine on Administrative Offenses on the ban on the production and popularization of Saint George (Guards) on […]

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry’s Directorate General for Consular Service has reported that less than 3 percent of Ukrainians who crossed the Ukraine-EU border on the first day of the visa-free regime did not have a visa in their passport, according to the Ukrainian news portal Europeiska Pravda. Read more here.

Pavlo Klimkin, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine stands for the creation of the pre-announcement system for citizens of Russia when they want to visit Ukraine. He claimed this during the airing of 1+1 channel. Interfax-Ukraine reported this. Read more here.

Ministry of Trade and Industry of Egypt has introduced temporary duties as part of the antidumping investigation into imports of steel rebar for construction purposes originated from China, Turkey and Ukraine. Egyptian news agency Ahram online reported, referring to Trade Minister Tarek Kabil, that the antidumping duty on China’s steel is set at 17 percent, Turkey’s […]

Near-final results from France’s first-round parliamentary elections showed President Emmanuel Macron’s new movement winning by a large margin and set to land a huge majority in the final-round vote. Read more here.

Police in Russia’s Far East have detained several people trying to demonstrate as part of nationwide anticorruption protests organized by opposition politician Aleksei Navalny and his supporters. Read more here.

Russia-backed separatists attacked Ukrainian army positions in Donbas 67 times in the past 24 hours, with two Ukrainian soldiers reported as killed in action (KIA) and four as wounded in action (WIA), according to the press service of the Ukrainian military. Read more here.

Ukrainians on June 11 celebrated the first day of visa-free access to the European Union, with thousands crossing the border as President Petro Poroshenko proclaimed a dramatic “exit” from Moscow’s grip. Read more here.

Several thousand people took part in demonstrations across Moldova on June 11, protesting both in favor of and against proposed changes to the electoral system that European rights experts see as “inappropriate”. Read more here.