Новости за 18.07.2017

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said that Ukraine and Georgia will not allow anyone to impose their will on their peoples. “There is the same threat to our freedom, democracy, and independence. We will not allow anyone to dictate the future to our great nations,” he said at a joint news conference with Georgian President […]

After a new round of talks failed to resolve the issue, Russia’s Foreign Ministry reiterated on July 18 that it reserved the right to retaliate against the United States for its seizure of diplomatic property as punishment for Moscow’s meddling in last year’s presidential election. Read more here. 

Canada welcomes the decision of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) to hold the judicial process in the case of the downed MH17 airliner of the Malaysia Airlines in the Netherlands and declares its readiness to provide every possible assistance in these efforts, Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland has said. “Recently, on July 5, the Joint […]

The European Union is planning to impose duties of up to 33 percent on hot-rolled steel imports from Brazil, Iran, Russia and Ukraine to counter what it sees as unfairly low prices, according to a document seen by Reuters. Read more here. 

The Foreign Ministry of Ukraine has welcomed the completion of the procedures for appointments of Thomas Greminger as the OSCE secretary general, Lamberto Zannier as the high commissioner on national minorities, Harlem Désir as the representative on freedom of the media and Ingibjorg Solrun Gisladottir as the director of the Office for Democratic Institutions and […]

The Supervisory Board of the National Oil and Gas Holding Naftogaz of Ukraine has authorized the company’s management to conclude framework agreements for the supply and delivery of gas with another two European gas traders – Vattenfall Energy and Trafigura Trading, that’s according to a Naftogaz statement published July 18. Read more here. 

Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry welcomed the new heads of OSCE institutions, who have been appointed most recently; the press service of the authority reported that on July 18 evening. Read more here. 

The announcement by the leader of Russia-backed separatists Alexander Zakharchenko, of the creation of Malorossiya is his personal initiative, the Russian president’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov said. “The announcement Zakharchenko made this morning on the subject of Malorossiya is his personal initiative,” Peskov told journalists on July 18. “Moscow learnt about it from the media […]

A man who works for a Moscow-based developer with ties to U.S. President Donald Trump was identified on July 18 as the eighth person to attend a June 2016 meeting where Trump’s son hoped to get damaging information on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Read more here. 

The leader of a rebel-held breakaway region in eastern Ukraine has announced a plan to abolish the country and replace it with the new state of “Malorossiya”, in the latest blow to faltering peace talks aimed at ending a more than three-year conflict. Read more here.

The supervisory board of PrivatBank (Kyiv) has announced McKinsey & Company the winner of a tender to select an internationally recognized company responsible for drawing up a strategy of the financial institution.

The European Union and a U.S. government commission have sharply criticized a Russian Supreme Court decision that they say amounts to a nationwide ban on the Jehovah’s Witnesses. Read more here. 

The Georgian government did not demand that Ukraine extradite Mikheil Saakashvili, the former head of Odesa regional state administration and ex-president of Georgia. Ukraine’s leader Petro Poroshenko said that at a briefing in Tbilisi, Georgia. Read more here. 

Pierluigi Collina, the renowned football judge broke the contract with the Federation of Football of Ukraine, UA Football reported. He did not attend the early training sessions of Ukrainian referees; he skipped the tests, briefings and seminars. Read more here. 

Kyiv’s Dniprovsky District Court has found Vitaliy Sediuk guilty of hooliganism during the final of the Eurovision 2017 Song Contest. “The court finds Sediuk guilty of hooliganism and fines him 500 non-taxable minimums (a total of Hr 8,500),” the spokesperson for Kyiv Prosecutor’s Office, Nadia Maksymets, told the Kyiv-based Interfax-Ukraine news agency. Prosecutors, who will […]

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s representative office for the Autonomous Republic of Crimea in the city of Kherson, Ukraine, has announced the suspension of work and stopped handling citizens’ requests in the office, according to the office’s press service. Read more here. 

Pechersky district court of Kyiv started hearing the case against the leader of Radical Party Oleh Lyashko. He is accused of the alleged combining in 2006 deputy’s work with management in the agency that does not in business anymore. This was reported by the journalist on air of 112 Ukraine TV channel. Read more here. 

Russia is trying to use the statement by separatist leader Alexander Zakharchenko about the establishment of Malorossiya to play out the ‘Abkhaz scenario’ in Donbas, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said. “Just when the Ukrainian delegation is visiting Georgia, the Kremlin is trying to play out the Abkhaz scenario in Donbas. We and our partners […]

Ukraine’s oil production fell by 6.3 percent in January-June 2017 (H1) year-over-year (y-o-y), to 751,500 tonnes, according to the Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Ministry’s press service. Read more here. 

There are no grounds for the extension of a state of emergency in the energy sector, Ukrenergo Head Vsevolod Kovalchuk has told journalists in Kyiv. “The term of a state of emergency in the energy sector has expired. And now there is no legislative basis for its extension,” he stated. Kovalchuk clarified the law, on […]

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in partnership with Ukraine’s Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry has launched a Norway-funded project whose main goal is to create a national food safety system for fishery products in Ukraine, according to FAO’s press service. Read more here.

Statement of the leader of Russia-backed separatists, Alexander Zakharchenko, on the creation of Malorossiya can paralyze the negotiations of the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG), Ukrainian representative in the TGG security subgroup Yevhen Marchuk has said. “This statement can generally block the negotiation process,” he said in an interview with 112.Ukraine TV channel on July 18. […]

Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn plans to set up a fund to raise money to pay his legal bills stemming from multiple investigations into possible Trump campaign ties to Russia, according to a person close to Flynn. Read more here. 

As part of its ticket price-cutting campaign, Ukraine International Airlines offers passengers low-cost ticket fares for some scheduled flights to Europe, the Unites States, Asia and the Middle East, avianews.com reports. Read more here. 

The Russians expected to be seated in a distant corner and ignored – but got a red-carpet reception instead. An unofficial delegation of 16 legislators, bankers and political pundits arrived in Washington, DC, in February to participate in an annual Presidential Prayer Breakfast hosted by the US Congress and attended by the incumbent president. Read […]