Новости за 01.09.2017

Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III is reviewing a letter drafted by President Trump and a top aide in the days before the firing of FBI Director James B. Comey laying out in detail why the president wanted to get rid of the country’s top law enforcement official, according to people familiar with the Mueller […]

Russia has the equipment necessary to prepare its citizens for the introduction of biometric control in Ukraine, as Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs Anton Herashchenko told 112.UA Channel on air. Read more here.

The calls started flooding in from hundreds of irate North Carolina voters just after 7 a.m. on Election Day last November. Dozens were told they were ineligible to vote and were turned away at the polls, even when they displayed current registration cards. Others were sent from one polling place to another, only to be […]

The political prisoner from Crimea Oleksandr Kolchenko was banned from continuing of his education at the Tavrida National Vernadsky University at geography department remotely. The First Vice-Speaker of the Parliament and the representative of Ukraine in the humanitarian subgroup of the Trilateral Contact Group in Minsk Iryna Gerashchenko reported. Read more here.

The United States says it may resume conducting limited interviews at its three Russia consulates for people seeking US visas. Read more here.

A Russian businessman who explored building a tower in Moscow with Donald Trump’s company during the presidential campaign is a little-known developer of working-class apartments on the city’s outskirts. Read more here.

MOSCOW – Russian officials vowed on Sept.1 to respond to a US order to shut the Russian Consulate in San Francisco and offices in Washington and New York, but also indicated that Moscow was not inclined to raise the stakes in the diplomatic tit-for-tat between the two countries. Read more here.  

The official account of Crimea on Twitter has trolled the Russian Embassy in the UK which claimed in its tweet that the peninsula belongs to Russia. Read more here.

The Russia-Belarus Zapad-2017 exercise poses a threat to NATO countries and the nations of the post-Soviet world, Ukraine’s Armed Forces Chief of Staff and Commander-in-Chief Viktor Muzhenko said. “We are evaluating various scenarios of the adversary’s actions, including offensive action,” the Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s press service quoted Muzhenko as saying. The contents of the events […]

The actions of state agencies of Ukraine if former Odesa governor Mikheil Saakashvili attempts to return to Ukraine are the responsibility of the Interior Ministry, the State Migration Service and State Border Service of Ukraine, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said during a visit on Sept.1 to Kharkiv. “When the State Migration Service presented to the citizenship […]

MOSCOW – Russia said on Sept.1 it would respond harshly to any US measures designed to hurt it, a day after the United States told Moscow to close its San Francisco consulate and buildings in Washington and New York. Read more here.

BRUSSELS — European Union chief Jean-Claude Juncker is welcoming the full entry into force of an agreement on closer ties with Ukraine, despite Russian attempts to derail the accord. Read more here.

KHARKIV – Ukraine will closely monitor joint Russian-Belarusian strategic military drills, dubbed Zapad 2017 (West 2017) because they could threaten Ukraine’s territorial integrity, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said. “We are looking at the drills with great interest because we see a potential threat, including a threat to Ukraine’s territorial integrity,” Poroshenko said during a […]

Ukraine’s logistics is by far more expensive by international standards. The World Bank 2016 Logistics Performance Index (LPI) ranks Ukraine 80th among 160 countries, down from 61th place in 2014. Its LPI score is almost 55 percent lower than the value of the top performer, Germany (2.74 vs. 4.23). Read more here.

The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) intends to begin placing three-month deposit certificates from Sept. 13. According to a report on the website of the National Bank of Ukraine, the placement of these deposit certificates will take place once a week, on Wednesday, at a percentage tender on the principle of a single price.

Donald Trump owes hundreds of millions to Deutsche Bank in connection with past real estate deals. Some politicians who are not fans of the president are blowing smoke hoping people will think there’s a fire. Read the full story here.

Principal Deputy Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (OSCE SMM) to Ukraine Alexander Hug has said that that the ceasefire regime in the Donbas is not respected. Read more here.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has ordered the Cabinet of Ministers to take measures to improve the legislation on the procedures governing the stay in Ukraine of foreigners, including citizens of Russia, within a month’s time. The order is stated in the presidential decree enacting the decision made by the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council […]

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko says that starting Jan. 1, 2018 new rules of border crossing are to be introduced for citizens of the countries that pose risk to Ukraine, according to the official website of the president. Read more here.

The Kremlin is considering pitting a female candidate against President Vladimir Putin in next year’s elections, the Vedomosti newspaper cited presidential administration sources as saying Sept. 1. Read more here.

Ukraine will have to repay foreign debt worth about $4.6 billion in 2019, Deputy Finance Minister Yuriy Butsa has told the Ekonomichna Pravda online news site. Read more here.

MOSCOW — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says Moscow has yet to study the United States’ decision to shut its consulate in San Francisco before considering possible retaliation. Read more here.

After coming under pressure from lawmakers, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has taken steps toward spending tens of millions of dollars to counter propaganda by Islamist extremists and governments such as Russia. Read more here.

MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin warned on Sept. 1 that the tense standoff between North Korea and the United States was on the verge of large-scale conflict and said it was a mistake to try to pressure Pyongyang over its nuclear missile program. Read more here.

The Association Agreement between the European Union and Ukraine enters fully into force on Sept. 1. Read more here.