Новости за 07.09.2017

Russian authorities are investigating Sova Center, a respected research organization that tracks hate crimes and extremist movements in Russia, in connection with a controversial law on “undesirable organizations,” a move that could severely curtail its work. The Moscow-based nonprofit said in a statement September 7 that the Moscow Prosecutor-General’s Office had opened its probe after […]

Russia would benefit from extending the accord with OPEC to limit oil production, said the country’s finance minister. “Extending the deal would be beneficial for all involved,” Anton Siluanov said in an interview with Bloomberg News. Failure to do so would probably lead to a “sharp change in price.” Read more here. 

FBI Director Christopher Wray said on September 7 he has not “detected any whiff of interference” into the ongoing investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Read more here. 

Ukrainian Embassy in Russia and the country’s Consulate General in Rostov-on-Don turned to Russia’s foreign ministry. The Ukrainian side demands that the Russian government lets Ukrainian consuls see detained Pavlo Hryb, the son of Ukrainian military officer. The Russian administration should also report on the reasons why they detained the young man and provide him […]

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has said that the priority tasks facing the Ukrainian authorities are the country’s closest approach to the criteria for membership in the European Union and NATO. “The first thing we have to do now is to fulfill the Association Agreement, but this should not be limited, and new steps should […]

A court on September 6 ruled that Russian airline Aeroflot cannot tell staff what size clothing to wear after a stewardess complained she had been taken off international routes because she did not fit into the regulation-size uniform. The stewardess, Yevgenia Magurina, said she had been transferred to lower paying domestic flights because she exceeded […]

Ukraine first in the world launched the electronic state auction on blockchain technology. The Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman reported this on Facebook. ‘Blockchain is the world trend and it considered as the key innovation that can change all spheres from the financial to the state governance. Exactly this technology provides the decentralized storage […]

European Union Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Maja Kocijancic has announced the European Union does not recognize any “governor’s elections” in the Russian-occupied city of Sevastopol scheduled for September 10, nor the “governor” to be elected. Read more here. 

The Kyiv Prosecutor’s Office on September 4 lodged a lawsuit with Kyiv’s Economic Court to return a 12.7 percent stake in power supplier Kyivenergo, a 61 percent stake in gas supplier Kyivgaz and a 67 percent stake in water supplier Kyivvodokanal to the city, Kyiv Prosecutor Roman Hovda said at a press conference in Kyiv […]

Next year, 16 Ukrainian TV channels will be broadcasting in the Russian-occupied Crimea. The press service of the National Council for TV and Radio Broadcasting reported that in the statement released on September 7. ‘We are not only expanding the broadcasting area of Ukrainian TV and radio channels to the southern part of Kherson region and […]

A vehicle belonging to an international monitoring mission in eastern Ukraine that struck a landmine in April, killing a U.S. paramedic on board, was not the mine’s intended target, an independent investigation has found. Read more here.

CHISINAU – The Moldovan government said on Sept. 7 it has sent 57 servicemen to Ukraine to participate in military exercises starting this week, deepening a row with the pro-Russian president who had vetoed the move. Read more here.

A total of 410 people have gone missing in eastern Ukraine. Yuri Kachanov, the head of the joint coordination center for search and release of captives and hostages and search for people gone missing in the combat area under the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), said this during a roundtable meeting at the Ukrinform news agency. Read […]

BRUSSELS – European Union governments on Sept. 7 rejected measures to counter dumping of hot-rolled steel from Brazil, Iran, Russia and Ukraine. Read more here.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has rejected the idea of transferring the right to choose Ukraine’s president to the Verkhovna Rada. “I will never agree with proposals to take away from people the right to elect a president,” he said, delivering his annual message on Sept. 7 in parliament. Poroshenko pointed out that he had […]

Around 100,000 Russian soldiers will take part in the upcoming Zapad 2017 drill, despite Moscow’s claims that the drill will only have 12,700 participants, said Germany’s Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen. Read more here.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says that the purpose of a proposed UN-mandated peacekeeping mission in war-torn eastern Ukrainian must be to foster peace, not to cement what he called “Russia’s occupation” of a chunk of his country. Read more here.

CHISINAU – Moldovan President Igor Dodon has threatened to strip soldiers taking part in military exercises in Ukraine of their ranks, Presidential Press Secretary Ion Ceban said. “The president for the first time gave orders to conduct inspections at army units to check for the presence or absence of servicemen and take relevant decisions in […]

A 19-year-old citizen of Ukraine, Pavlo Hryb, who was reported missing after he traveled to Belarus August 24 for a date with a Russian girl and was allegedly abducted by Russia’s FSB, is now being held at a detention facility in the Russian city of Krasnodar, the teenager’s father, Ihor Hryb, has told an UNIAN […]

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says he fears that Russia could use massive military manoeuvres next week as a cover for invasion. Read more here.

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia – Vladimir Putin took a jab at Rex Tillerson on Sept. 7, joking that the U.S. Secretary of State had “fallen in with the wrong company” since he had awarded him a Russian state honor for his contribution to Russian-U.S. relations. Read more here.

Ukraine stands ready for a substantive conversation with the UN Security Council members regarding the deployment of a UN peacekeeping mission in Donbas, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said. “First, we favor the deployment of a full-scale UN peacekeeping mission in Donbas. Its purpose should be not to perpetuate the Russian occupation and legalize the Russian […]

U.S. President Donald Trump’s eldest son will testify privately before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Sept. 7 as it investigates allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Read more here.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Sept. 7 said he opposed holding elections earlier than is mandated by the constitution. Read more here.

The soon release of Donbas and the cessation of the war in 2014 became impossible only because of Russian intervention, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said. “We managed to return the most part of Donbas to the sovereignty of Ukraine in the summer of 2014. Only direct intervention by Russian troops using modern technology and weapons stopped […]