Новости за 13.06.2017

OPEC has slightly lowered its 2017 forecast for non-OPEC oil supply to the world market due to Russia, Brunei, Kazakhstan and Sudan. The monthly OPEC report for June said that oil supplies from non-OPEC countries in 2017 will total 58.14 million barrels per day (bpd), down 110,000 bpd on the forecast published in May. The […]

Russia-backed separatists on June 13 again attacked residential quarters of the Ukrainian-controlled town of Avdiyivka in Donetsk region, as a result of which a local female resident received a shrapnel wound, the National Police’s main department in Donetsk region has reported. “The shells that came from the separatist-held areas exploded near a private house on […]

The government of Canada has handed a modern digital radiography system, Calypso, over to the State Border Service of Ukraine’s Odesa hospital. The official transfer took place on June 13, as part of the international technical assistance project on stepping up security of Ukraine’s borders, the service said. The event was attended by head of […]

The Pride Week ins underway in Kyiv; on June 13, the Ukrainian capital hosted the anti-LGBTQ protest action. 112 Ukraine TV channel reported that on late June 13. Read more here. 

If a referendum on accession to NATO were held in Moldova, 65 percent would vote against accession, 21 percent for it and 14 percent would be undecided, judging by a poll conducted by the Public Opinion Fund. The poll conducted from May 26 through June 5 at the request of the Poliexpert consultancy, involved 1,799 […]

Former members of Ukraine’s special forces, known as Berkut, were sighted working as OMON riot police at yesterday’s anti-corruption protests in Russia, reported Ukrainian news outlet LB.ua. Read more here. 

Mykhailo Zhyznevsky, one of the activists who deceased during Euromaidan protests in Ukraine in winter 2014 received the Star of the Hero of Ukraine. President Petro Poroshenko granted the late Belarusian protester respective title and passed his parents the award. Read more here. 

The Moscow Tverskoy District Court on June 13 sentenced oppositionist Ilya Yashin to 15 days of administrative arrest for disobedience to police at a protest action in central Moscow on June 12, an Interfax correspondent reported. “Yashin is found guilty of committing an offense enshrined in part 1 Article 19.3 of the Administrative Offense Code […]

The Board of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights demands that the Russian government lift all bans concerning Crimean Tatars residing in the Russian-annexed peninsula. This was mentioned in the report released by the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine. Read more here. 

First Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine Dmytro Storozhuk and Attorney General of Thailand Pongniwat Yuthapanboriparn have signed a cooperation agreement. The press service of Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) reported on June 13 that the agreement was signed in the capital of Thailand Bangkok at a meeting of Storozhuk with Yuthapanboriparn. The signing of the […]

This is the first article within the “Big Job” project prepared by a KSE student with the assistance of the VoxUkraine editors. The goal of this project is to identify and analyze trends in the job market and, using mathematical methods, to assess how much the association with each particular skill is valued in Ukraine […]

The notorious former chief of the Kyiv Berkut riot police unit, Colonel Serhiy Kusiuk, who is wanted since summer 2015 on suspicion of involvement in massacres of activists during the Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine, has been spotted dispersing an anti-corruption rally in Moscow on June 12, according to the Ukrainian television news service TSN. […]

Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) is raiding the building of public joint-stock company Ukrzaliznytsia over a large embezzlement of funds belonged to the company, Deputy Head of the procedural management department of PGO Oleksandr Tsyliurik said. “Now PGO officers are raiding the building of Ukrzaliznytsia to record a crime related to embezzlement of a large […]

Up to 382,000 people in Donetsk Oblast have lost supplies of running water amid an upsurge of fighting in the region, local authorities and emergency services report. After the shelling of a pumping station inside the war zone, the South Donbas water pipeline has been dry for five days, cutting main water supplies to government-controlled […]

Moldovan intelligence believes five Russian diplomats expelled from Moldova last month were spies who were recruiting fighters for the Moscow-backed insurgency in neighboring Ukraine, a government source and two diplomatic sources told Reuters. Read more here.

The National Anti-corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) together with the special investigations bureau of Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) is continuing its investigation into the so-called ‘black ledger’ used by the Party of Regions. NABU on June 9 said that a year of investigating the case included handwriting expertise to establish the authenticity of signatures of […]

Poland’s economy has made it past a record stretch of deflation and the biggest institutional crisis to grip the nation since the fall of communism. Demographic problems, on the other hand, have a way of sticking around. Read more here.

Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallström will visit Kyiv and Odesa during her stay in Ukraine and will take part in the 6th Sweden-Ukraine Business Forum. Read more here.

Investors wanting to take the temperature of Ukraine’s reform drive could do worse than look in on state-run energy firm Naftogaz, where a battle for control underscores the obstacles hampering wider efforts to clean up the ex-communist economy. Read more here.

The United States, the European Union, and human rights groups have condemned the detention of hundreds of peaceful protesters across Russia. Read more here.

Russia-backed separatists conducted 57 attacks on Ukrainian positions in Donbas on June 12, where one Ukrainian soldier has been killed and another five have been wounded in the past 24 hours, the press service of the Ukrainian military said on its Facebook account. In the Mariupol sector, separatists used grenade launchers and infantry fighting vehicle weapons against Maryinka […]

Ukraine’s Kazakh Embassy has lodged a protest over maps near an international energy exposition in Astana that show Ukraine’s occupied Crimean Peninsula as part of Russia. Read more here.

Russia’s opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been sentenced to 30 days’ administrative arrest for repeatedly violating the law on staging rallies. Read more here.

National Security and Defense Council Secretary Oleksandr Turchynov believes Ukraine needs to finish the so-called “anti-terrorist operation (ATO)” and move to a new format of protecting the country from the hybrid war with Russia. “Hostilities in the east of our country have continued for three years and have outgrown both the duration and the scale […]

WASHINGTON — Senate leaders said they had reached an agreement late on June 12 to approve new sanctions against Russia for interfering in the 2016 presidential election and for the country’s conduct in Ukraine and Syria, delivering a striking message to a foreign power that continues to shadow President Trump. Read more here.