Новости за 08.09.2017

The investigation’s preliminary findings indicate that a Toyota Camry with Georgian license plates was blown up in central Kyiv on Sept. 8 evening by means of a planted explosive device, which killed Georgian citizen Timur Makhauri and severely injured his wife; the third passenger, a child, was not harmed, Ukrainian Interior Ministry spokesperson Artem Shevchenko […]

A Georgian man was killed and a woman was injured in a car explosion in the center of Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, in Sept. 8 evening’s rush hour, police said. Read more here.

KYIV – Mikheil Saakashvili, the feisty former Georgian president and ex-governor of Ukraine’s Odesa region, is gathering forces in Warsaw ahead of an attempt to reenter Ukraine from Poland – a move that could escalate the showdown between him and his former ally, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. Read more here.

MOSCOW – Russia’s newly installed ambassador to Washington said on Sept. 8 that he had a warm and constructive meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, Russian news agencies reported. Read more here.

Hryvnia quotations against the dollar on the interbank currency market on Sept. 8 fell to Hr 26.05/26.08 to the dollar by the middle of trade, a broker at a commercial bank has told a UNIAN correspondent. Read more here.

MINSK – An unauthorized opposition rally against the Zapad 2017 joint Belarusian-Russian exercise in Belarus is taking place in the center of the Belarusian capital on Sept. 8. The rally was initiated by opposition politician and 2010 presidential candidate Nikolai Statkevich. Around 150-200 protestors have gathered in Oktyabrskaya Square in central Minsk. They are protesting […]

Pavlo Hryb, a Ukrainian citizen kidnapped by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) in Belarus, is being held at a detention facility in the Russian city of Krasnodar, Vasyl Kyrylych, head of a unit at Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry, told Ukrainska Pravda on Sept. 7. The FSB declined to comment on the issue on Sept. 8. Belarus’ […]

BERLIN – German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sept. 8 that she wanted European Union sanctions against Russia lifted, but only once peaceful conditions had been achieved in eastern Ukraine. Read more here.

The Prosecutor General’s Office said late on Sept. 8 that it would not consider Georgia’s extradition request for ex-Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and would send it back to the Ukrainian Justice Ministry. Saakashvili, who was stripped by President Petro Poroshenko of his Ukrainian citizenship in July, is planning to come back to Ukraine through the […]

MOSCOW – If the United Nations Security Council approves Russia’s initiative on deploying a UN peacekeeping mission along the line of contact in Donbas, its implementation would improve the security of the OSCE monitors in the region, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. Russia takes seriously the concerns about regularly emerging risks to the security […]

Darth Vader is standing on a pedestal in the yard of a plant in the suburbs of the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa. In his previous life he was a monument to Lenin, transformed into the Star Wars hero by Ukrainian artist Oleksandr Milov. Read more here.

Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman has said that Ukraine counts on completing the demarcation of the state border with Moldova until the end of 2017. Groysman in Odesa held a meeting with Prime Minister of Moldova Pavel Filipp, during which the parties discussed the strengthening of cooperation in the economy and the development of […]

One person was killed and two injured in a car bombing in the heart of Kyiv near Bessaravska Square on Sept. 8. One of the injured is a child. The killed man was Timur Mahauri, a Chechen with Georgian citizenship. Mahauri reportedly participated in the fighting in the eastern Ukraine as part of a Chechen volunteer battalion on […]

The Heads of Ukrzaliznytsia (Ukrainian Railways), Georgian Railway and Azerbaijan Railways signed a Memorandum on the cooperation and joint usage of the ferries of Ukrainian Railways in Odesa. The press service of Ukrzaliznytsia reported this. Read more here.

Moscow officials are planning to remove a plaque installed in honor of slain opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, the state-run TASS news agency reported. Read more here.

MOSCOW – Arbitration court in Moscow has once more rejected a Siemens request to impound the turbines that were diverted to Crimea, according to the case file in the arbitration suit. The plaintiff, Siemens, requested that the court impound the four turbines, because Tekhnopromexport is working to install them. In its filing, Siemens argued that […]

WARSAW, Poland — Mikhail Saakashvili, the former president of Georgia and a former governor in Ukraine, says he’s not afraid to try and return to Ukraine even though his citizenship there has been withdrawn, making him stateless. Read more here.

Fernando Romero, world-wide known architect, global investor and representative of the billionaire Carlos Slim family, visited Allseeds Oil-Extraction Plant in Yuzhny Port nearby Odessa during his visit to Ukraine. Mr. Romero said that Ukraine has significant investment potential, especially in the agrarian sector, and such companies as Allseeds bring it to a higher level of […]

Ukrainian venture firm AVentures Capital has invested $500,000 in a Ukrainian information technology startup that works with Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. Called Spinbackup, the IT company, which has its main offices in Kyiv and Odesa, developed the cloud-to-cloud backup and cybersecurity technology used in Google’s G Suite tools (Sheets, Docs, Gmail) and Office 356 by […]

The Foreign Ministry of Ukraine expresses its strong protest to the Russian side in connection with the unreasonable detention of the 19-year-old Ukrainian citizen, Pavlo Hryb, and urges Russia to immediately return him to Ukraine. Read more here.

The last Russian activist imprisoned following clashes at a protest on the eve of President Vladimir Putin’s inauguration in 2012 has left the country after serving his 30-month sentence. Read more here.

The Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Hungary and Romania have criticized of the language-related provisions of the new Ukrainian law on education, passed by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Sept. 5. Relevant statements are published on the websites of the ministries. “Ukraine has stabbed Hungary in the back by amending its education act, which […]

Former Ukrainian Justice Minister Oleksandr Lavrynovych has been served a suspicion notice, a document stating that he is accused of seizing state power, when he visited the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office, Lavrynovych said. “That was an investigatory action, a handover of the suspicion [notice]. They don’t ask any questions,” Lavrynovych told reporters following his visit […]

WBO cruiserweight champion Oleksandr Usyk hopes to unite all belts in his fight against German Marco Huck as part of the World Boxing Super Series, the tournament that begins in Berlin on Sept. 9. Read more here.

HRUNIVKA, Ukraine – As gunfire crackled across the sweltering fields, Max Stodola looked on with blank dread: “It happened so fast — there was nothing I could do. I just thought, ‘See ya, guys, nice knowing you.’” Read the full story here.