Новости за 29.08.2017

Real wages in Ukraine in July 2017 grew by 17.2 percent from July 2016 but decreased by 0.5 percent from June 2017, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine reported on August 29. The average nominal salary of full-time employees in July 2017 declined by 0.3 percent compared to June 2017, while it grew by 36.6 […]

Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) will carry out operational dredging of the Bug-Dnieper-Lyman Canal (BDLC) and Kherson Sea Canal (KSC) to support their technical characteristics and operating conditions, UkrAgroConsult reported. Read more here. 

Russia’s central bank launched one of the biggest banking bail-outs in its history on August 29, saying it would rescue troubled private lender Otkritie which has suffered a sustained run on its deposits amid worries about its loan portfolio. The central bank said it planned to tap its own funds in order to become a […]

Germany and Europe want to ensure that new U.S. sanctions against Russia do not lead to a new “ice age” in ties between Russia and the West, German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said on August 29. Gabriel said he spoke with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson about the sanctions in a meeting in Washington, […]

The Ukrainian party of the Minsk talks group offered to hold the video conference of the group on August 31. The reason is the failure of Russian mercenaries to observe the ceasefire. Daria Olifer, the press secretary of Leonid Kuchma, Ukraine’s ex-president and current envoy of Ukraine in the Minsk group, posted that at Facebook. […]

A Russian employee in the Swedish branch of Canadian plane and train maker Bombardier has pleaded not guilty to charges of aggravated bribery. If found guilty, Evgeny Pavlov, an employee of Bombardier Transportation Sweden AB in Azerbaijan, could face a six-year jail sentence and deportation. Read more here. 

A landslide took place in Fontanka village, Odesa region on August 29. A local official reported that on Facebook. Part of the street, which lies adjacent to the beach, slid under the ground; the length of the landslide made about 100 meters. Read more here. 

Russia seized control of stricken lender Bank Otkritie FC after the bank lost a quarter of its deposits in recent months and the return of its largest shareholder failed to steady investor nerves. The rescue — Russia’s first of a systemically important lender — will see shareholders’ stake in the bank shrink to a maximum […]

Poland expressed concern to Russia on August 29 over what it called “difficulties” in accessing the site of the 2010 plane crash in Russia that killed Poland’s President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others. Poland’s Foreign Ministry said Deputy Foreign Minister Bartosz Cichocki handed a diplomatic note to Russia’s Ambassador Sergei Andreyev regarding access to the […]

Russia’s central bank stepped in on August 29 to save Otkritie from a deposit run, in one of the largest bank rescues in the country’s history. The collapse of Otkritie marks the first time that one of the 10 Russian banks listed as “systemically important” has faced failure. The country introduced a law in May […]

President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker has said that Ukraine is not “‘European’ in the sense of the European Union.” Read more here.

TBILISI – Southern Georgia will host the Agile Spirit 2017 multinational exercise engaging NATO member countries and partners on Sept. 3-11, the Georgian Defense Ministry said in a report on August 29. “The exercise will test the troops’ readiness for joint operations with the NATO Response Force (NRF) and practice interaction with the United States […]

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on August 29 that he had ordered the country’s armed forces to continue abiding by the ceasefire with Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine that took effect on Aug. 25. Read more here.

Ukrainian security said on August 29 it had barred two Spanish journalists from the country over their coverage of a conflict with eastern separatists – a move media groups decried as an attack on free speech. Read more here.

The Ukrainian movie “Black Level” will compete for an Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 2018 Oscars. The Ukrainian Oscar Committee, which chose the drama to represent Ukraine at the Academy Awards, announced its decision on its Facebook page on Aug. 29. Directed by Ukrainian screenwriter and director Valentyn Vasianovych, “Black Level” […]

The entry-exit checkpoints in Donbas will switch to the autumn schedule in line with the temporary procedure for crossing the contact line along Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Read more here.

MOSCOW – Russia said on August 29 joint war games with Belarus would be purely defensive in nature and rejected what it said were false allegations it might use the drills as a springboard to launch invasions of Poland, Lithuania or Ukraine. Read more here.

ST. PETERSBURG – The police have detained one of the top managers of Ukrainian bank Finance and Credit Oleh Shapkin wanted by Interpol on suspicion of misappropriation and embezzlement in St. Petersburg. “At 18:00 on August 24, 2017 during a raid by the Interpol officers of the Main Department of the Interior Ministry of Russia […]

While most surveys of business leaders show that corruption and lack of rule of law are the reasons why investors shy away from Ukraine, others have a simpler explanation: It’s the fault of the critical independent media or overly self-critical Ukrainians. At least that was the message some speakers delivered to the 50th anniversary celebration […]

PARIS – Russia’s up-and-coming economy minister says his country is no longer suffering from U.S. and EU sanctions, and sees better prospects for future trade in Asia. Read more here.

Money transfers from Germany to Ukraine in 2016 amounted to 56 million euros, the highest figure in the last five years, Germany’s international broadcaster Deutsche Welle has reported. Read more here.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has welcomed the German and French leaders’ statement urging the sides to comply with a truce declared in Donbas due to the start of a new school year. “I welcome the statement of the leaders of Germany and France insistently calling first and foremost on the president of Russia, as the […]

These are the covert surveillance photographs said to offer key proof Russian intelligence officers plotted a violent coup that would have ended in the assassination of a European leader. Read more here.

President Trump’s campaign-season flattery of Russian President Vladimir Putin, a head scratcher at the time, makes a bit more sense after The Washington Post reported on August 27 night that Trump’s company was working on a deal to build a skyscraper in Moscow. Read more here.

Qatar Airways airline has made its first flight from Doha to Boryspil on August 28. Photo of the plane that landed at Boryspil airport in Kyiv was published on Facebook page by Ukraine’s Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan. Read more here.