Новости за 05.10.2017

The Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security and Defense supported the presidential bill on the specifics of state policy to ensure state sovereignty of Ukraine over temporarily occupied territories in Donetsk and Luhansk regions (No. 7163), at the same time instructing that the working group draft a number of amendments, according to an UNIAN correspondent. […]

On a sprawling campus on the outskirts of the Chinese city of Chongqing, dozens of Ukrainian aviation experts arrive by bus to help start the production lines for some of the world’s most advanced aircraft engines. Read more here.

The leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Oct. 4 largely endorsed the findings of the intelligence community that Russia sought to sway the 2016 U.S. elections through a hacking and influence campaign, and they called for a “more aggressive, whole-of-government approach” to ensure future elections are not similarly compromised. Read more here.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has said Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko intends to sign the bill on pension reform by Oct. 9. “The president will sign the bill [on pension reform] by Monday,” he said during a conference call on the implementation of the pension reform in Kyiv on Oct. 5. The prime minister noted […]

Some 300 residents of the Kyiv’s Pozniaky district and local activists held a rally on Oct. 4 evening demanding that a new gas station on Revutskoho Street, which they claim has been built too close to the residential area, be deconstructed, as reported by LB.ua. Read more here.

Since the launch of the updated application, Parking UA has doubled the number of the customers and active users. Kyiv, September 28, 2017 – LeoGaming and Mastercard presented an updated mobile application Parking UA (former — Kyiv Parking App), which allows to pay for parking at 219 municipal parking lots of Kyivtransparkservis, with the integrated […]

Ukraine’s forex reserves as of early October totaled $18.638 billion, which is $602 million or 3.3 percent more than a month ago, the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) said on its website on Oct. 5. Since early 2017, the reserves expanded by 20 percent.

WASHINGTON – The special counsel investigating whether Russia tried to sway the 2016 U.S. election has taken over FBI inquiries into a former British spy’s dossier of allegations of Russian financial and personal links to President Donald Trump’s campaign and associates, sources familiar with the inquiry told Reuters. Read more here.

As Canadian lawmakers took up legislation on Oct. 4 that would bar businesses from dealing with foreigners who have committed human rights abuses, a nonprofit group called the Russian Congress of Canada pushed hard against the measure. Read more here.

The Security Service of Ukraine has deported Vyacheslav Nemyshev, an employee of the Russian NTV television channel, to Russia, and banned him from entering Ukraine for three years. “Due to activities harming the national interests of Ukraine, after the appropriate procedural actions today, on Oct. 5, at 04:00 a.m. Nemyshev was forcibly returned to the […]

An unidentified attacker has shot several times at Deputy Chairman of the Odesa regional council Oleh Radkovsky. The incident occurred outside one of the restaurants in the central part of the city in the late hours of Oct. 4, local police official has told UNIAN. Read more here.

Kurt Volker, the U.S. special envoy for efforts to end the conflict in eastern Ukraine, says he will meet with Kremlin aide Vladislav Surkov on Oct. 7 in Serbia’s capital, Belgrade. Read more here.

MOSCOW — President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said on Oct. 4 that relations with America had “become hostage to the internal political situation in the U.S.,” but that his country had “many friends” in the United States who can help improve relations between the two nations when the political tensions in America settle down. Read […]

Polish Energy Minister Krzysztof Tchórzewski assured that the authorities would probe into coal supplies from the separatist-controlled parts of Donbas and further such supplies would be banned, Ukrainian Energy Minister Ihor Nasalyk said, according to 112 Ukraine TV channel. Read more here.

The situation in the Ukrainian eastern region Donbas remained tense on Oct. 4, with Russia-backed separatists violating the ceasefire 19 times, the press center of the Ukrainian military has reported. Read more here.

That is the prickly question a growing number of Ukrainians are asking as American football slowly makes its impact on the crisis-torn former Soviet republic now forging an ever-closer alliance with the West. Read more here.