Новости за 09.10.2017

Chief Commercial Officer of national oil and gas holding Naftogaz of Ukraine Yuriy Vitrenko says the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce is to make final decisions by the end of November 2017 on mutual claims between NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine and Russia’s gas monopoly Gazprom in relation to two contracts for the […]

The European Commission for Democracy through Law, better known as the Venice Commission, on Oct. 9 rejected President Petro Poroshenko’s idea of creating an anti-corruption chamber within Ukraine’s existing court system. Instead, the commission supported legislation to create independent anti-corruption courts, a measure sponsored by opposition lawmakers and supported by Ukraine’s civil society as an […]

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine has confirmed the death of one Ukrainian as a result of the crash of An-12 plane in the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Kinshasa on Sept. 30, and not three, as it was reported earlier, spokeswoman of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Mariana Betsa has reported. […]

Ukraine’s top prosecutor has claimed that the killing of a former Russian lawmaker who was shot dead in Kyiv in March was ordered by a former partner of the victim’s wife, and suggested that the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) was behind it. Read more here.

Maria Maksakova, the widow of former State Duma deputy Denis Voronenkov, regularly talked to her former common-law husband Vladimir Tyurin, Ilya Ponomaryov, former deputy of the Russian State Duma, said. “Mr. Tyurin did not have a direct motive to order this killing and, from the very start, when this theory was considered, Masha [Maria Maksakova] […]

BISHKEK — Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambaev has cancelled a trip to Russia for a Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) summit this week, citing what he said were fears of violent unrest during Kyrgyzstan’s October 15 presidential election. Read more here.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko are meeting on Oct. 9 afternoon in the Presidential Administration of Ukraine in Kyiv. Erdogan together with his wife Emine came to the presidential administration on Oct. 9 afternoon, where they were met by Poroshenko and his wife Maryna. On the occasion of the arrival of the Turkish president […]

Developing-nation debt will be one of the most lucrative bets over the next three to five years as growth accelerates from Indonesia to Brazil, according to one of the sector’s top investors. Read more here.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has met Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who arrived on an official visit to Ukraine, an Ukrinform correspondent reports. Read more here.

The investigation into the killing of journalist Pavel Sheremet will go more actively when the investigators get “leads,” Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yury Lutsenko said. “We are also working on the Sheremet case. In this case, the prosecutors are only leading the procedure, while the Interior Ministry’s investigative group is doing even more massive information collection, […]

Ukraine’s chief prosecutor says the killing in March of renegade Russian lawmaker Denis Voronenkov was staged by a Russian crime lord linked to Russia’s security agency. Read more here.

You don’t read much about Kyrgyzstan in the international press, but it’s a fascinating part of a fascinating region. A predominantly Muslim former Soviet state of 6 million that borders China along its eastern border, it contends with competing currents created by Russia, China, the United States, and the Muslim world. And it’s a genuine […]

Russian citizen Vladimir Tyurin has been told he is suspected of masterminding the killing of former Russian State Duma deputy Denis Voronenkov, Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yury Lutsenko said. “Tyurin, 59, is now suspected of several counts of crimes: organizing the deliberate illegal killing of a different person, premeditated murder for financial gain motives, organization of […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree that allows foreign citizens serving in the Russian Army on a contractual basis to take part in Russian military operations abroad. Read more here.

LONDON – Ukraine is committed to its aid programme with the International Monetary Fund and expects to receive a further tranche of funds by the end of 2017, Finance Minister Oleksandr Danylyuk told Reuters on Oct. 9. Read more here.

Ukraine and Georgia “sooner or later” can become member states of NATO, but today they need to focus on implementation of reforms. Read more here.

Ukrainian investigators have identified all participants in the criminal group involved in the killing of former Russian State Duma deputy Denis Voronenkov in central Kyiv and the prosecutors are sending the case to court, Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko said. “A large-scale investigation has helped to identify all participants in the criminal group, including the […]

The assets and bank accounts of former National Security and Defense Council Secretary and former Head of the Presidential Administration Andriy Kliuyev and his brother, Serhiy, have been arrested as part of criminal proceedings investigated by the Prosecutor General’s Office both in Ukraine and abroad, UNN reported on Oct. 8, with reference to the PGO. […]

Private joint-stock company Smart-Holding sent Hr 5 million to the account of the State Treasury Service as a bail for director of private joint-stock company Ukrgazvydobutok, part of the holding, and Khakiv volunteer Vadym Mokhov, Spokesman of Smart-Holding Yevhen Zahorulko has told Interfax-Ukraine. According to a copy of the transfer order, the funds were paid […]

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on Oct. 12 will hold an urgent debate on the new Ukrainian law on education. Read more here.

Editor’s Note: The following is the English-language transcript of Hromadske Radio’s “Ukraine Calling” program on Oct. 7, interviewing language expert Volodymyr Kulyk about why Ukraine’s new education law is causing controversy. Hello and welcome to this week’s Ukraine Calling programme. I’m Oksana Smerechuk for Hromadske Radio in Kyiv, bringing you a roundup of the weekly news. […]

The US has suspended the processing of the vast majority of new visas in Turkey after Turkish authorities arrested a US embassy employee last week, escalating a brewing diplomatic crisis between the two allies and, in effect, blocking thousands of Turks from travel to the US. Read more here.

BUCHAREST – NATO launches a new multinational force in Romania on Oct. 9 in its latest step to counter Russia along its eastern flank and to check a growing Russian presence in the Black Sea following the Kremlin’s 2014 seizure of Crimea. Read more here.

Ukraine team won two silver medals at 2017 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Montreal, Canada. Read more here.

Ukraine will for the first time host a session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in 2020, according to First Deputy Speaker of the Ukrainian parliament and Ukraine’s envoy in the Minsk Trilateral Contact Group’s humanitarian subgroup Iryna Gerashchenko. Read more here.