Новости за 09.10.2017

The Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine has drafted and approved the document titled “Fuel structure of thermal power plants and heat and power plants for 2018”, which provides an outlook for the country’s demand for thermal generation on coal at 26.6 million tonnes next year, of which 4.9 million tonnes is a […]

Ukraine’s finance minister says the country remains committed to deep reforms required under a $17.5 billion IMF bailout programme, despite its success in tapping capital markets for a $3 billion eurobond last month. Read more here.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said, during a visit to Ukraine, that Turkey won’t recognize Russia’s annexation of Crimea. Read more here.

WASHINGTON – Google has discovered Russian operatives spent tens of thousands of dollars on ads on its YouTube, Gmail and Google Search products in an effort to meddle in the 2016 US presidential election, a person briefed on the company’s probe told Reuters on Oct.9. Read more here.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko thanked President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for confirming the unchanging support for our state’s sovereignty and territorial integrity in its internationally recognized borders, the presidential administration’s press service reported. Read more here.

WASHINGTON — Russian operatives bought tens of thousands of dollars of advertising on the giant internet search engine Google last year in an attempt to help real estate mogul Donald Trump win the US presidency, according to a new report from The Washington Post. Read more here.

MOSCOW – US government-sponsored Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) said on Oct.9 Moscow had threatened to brand their Russian language service projects as “foreign agents” in retaliation for what Moscow calls US pressure on a Kremlin-backed TV station. Read more here.

SAN FRANCISCO — Google has found evidence that Russian agents bought ads on its wide-ranging networks in an effort to interfere with the 2016 presidential campaign. Read more here.

Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan said on Oct.9 a US decision to suspend visa services in Turkey was upsetting, adding that Turkish foreign ministry officials had contacted their US counterparts over the issue. Read more here.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said that Ukraine is interested in increasing Turkey’s representation in the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (OSCE SMM) and counts on Turkey’s support for the deployment of a UN peacekeeping mission to Donbas, the official website of the Ukrainian president has reported. “We would be very interested in increasing […]

A newly disclosed email sent by the Russian lawyer who attended a now-infamous meeting with senior Trump campaign officials appears to suggest that she believed it had little to do with Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. Read more here.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that Ukraine and Turkey intend to boost trade between the countries to $10 billion. “Today, taking into account recent events, we’ve decided to bring our goods turnover to as high as $10 billion as soon as possible,” he said at a joint briefing with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko […]

Two Ukrainian border guards who were earlier detained by the Russian security forces near the Ukrainian-Russian border were arrested by the Russian court for a period of two months, according to a speaker of the State Border Service of Ukraine, Oleh Slobodian. Read more here.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that Turkey continues to support the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine and does not recognize the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation. “We have not and will not recognize the illegal annexation of Crimea,” he said at a joint briefing with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in […]

Ukraine will host a session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in 2020, its first time, local media reported on Oct.9, citing a senior parliamentary official. Read more here.

LONDON – Ukraine will look at whether it needs to buy back or rework the terms of the GDP-linked bonds it used to sweeten its 2015 debt restructuring, the country’s finance minister said on Oct.9. Read more here.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko expects that Turkey will join an international group on the de-occupation of Crimea. “We also look forward to involving Turkey in the international group of friends on Crimea’s de-occupation. The idea of its formation I announced from the UN rostrum in New York City,” he said during a joint briefing […]

SUMY, Ukraine – Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili on Oct. 8, together with several opposition mayors, held a rally in the northern Ukrainian city of Sumy, the latest stop on his continuing tour around Ukraine to drum up support. At the rally, Saakashvili called on President Petro Poroshenko to resign if he fails to meet […]

More than six months after Russian State Duma ex-lawmaker Denys Voronenkov was gunned down on a busy street in Kyiv, Ukrainian authorities have accused Russian citizen Vladimir Tyurin of arranging the assassination at the behest of Russia’s Federal Security Service, or FSB. Tyurin is now in Russia, Prosecutor General Lutsenko said. The accusations, if true, […]

The Russian side has not provided any information on how Ukrainian border guards from the Sumy border detachment fell into the hands of Russian FSB officers, according to Oleh Slobodian, an assistant to the chief of the Ukrainian State Border Service. Read more here.

Ukrainian Finance Minister Oleksandr Danylyuk and British Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Alan Duncan have signed a protocol on amending the agreement between the governments of Ukraine and the United Kingdom on avoiding double taxation, the Ukrainian Finance Ministry has reported. According to the protocol, the signing of the protocol helps avoid […]

Barley exports from Ukraine dropped by 10.5 percent over the first two months of the 2017/18 marketing season, while exports of Ukrainian barely to China are already 87 percent more than for the whole last marketing season, the UkrAgroConsult company reports. Read more here.

  II Ukrainian Renewable Energy Forum’17 will be held on 30 November 2017 in Kyiv with the focus on investment potential of Ukrainian renewable energy market. Forum Organizer — A7 CONFERENCES, Co-organizer — Dentons, General Renewable Energy Partner – RENTECHNO, Investment partner — A7 CAPITAL. Forum venue: Fairmont Grand Hotel Kyiv, 1, Naberezhno-Khreshatytska Str., Kyiv, […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Google for the first time has uncovered evidence that Russian operatives exploited the company’s platforms in an attempt to interfere in the 2016 election, according to people familiar with the company’s investigation. Read more here.

Turkey has issued an arrest warrant for a US consulate worker, the second in a week, media reports say. Read more here.