Новости за 30.10.2017

A Ukrainian lawmaker says a Chechen man sought by Russia on charges of involvement in a botched plot to kill President Vladimir Putin has been wounded in an ambush near the Ukrainian capital. Read more here.

Amina Okuyeva, a Ukrainian citizen and ethnic Chechen who served as a volunteer soldier in the war against Russian-backed forces in eastern Ukraine, was killed late on Oct. 30 in Hlevaha village, 10 kilometers southwest of Kyiv. Okuyeva, 34, who was in a car with her husband, Adam Osmayev, died on a scene as a result […]

Russia had been planning the abduction of Ukrainian border guards Bohdan Martson and Ihor Dziubak for two months before they disappeared, Ukrainska Pravda informs with a reference to their sources in the law enforcement. Read more here.

Charges against President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort emboldened Democrats to call for greater protection for special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Read more here.

Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III on Oct.30 revealed an indictment against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his longtime business partner Rick Gates, as well as charges against former Trump foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty earlier this month. The developments stem from a sweeping investigation Mueller is conducting into possible collusion […]

As a result of the shooting by indentified people at a car at the railway crossing near the town of Hlevakha in Kyiv region, volunteer Donbas soldier and paramedic Amina Okuyeva died, and her husband Adam Osmayev was wounded, adviser to the interior minister of Ukraine, MP Anton Gerashchenko of the People’s Front said. “The […]

LUHANSK – Toni Frisch, an OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) coordinator of the humanitarian subgroup of the Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine, has visited Ukrainian prisoners of war held in a Luhansk detention facility in order to monitor their incarceration conditions. He visited the detention facility and met some prisoners, Frisch told reporters. The coordinator […]

Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine Liliya Hrynevych gave an interview to 112.UA, concerning the recently adopted law on education, which caused outrage in some countries due to the limitation of classes taught in the languages of national minorities. Read more here.

The withdrawal of Russian troops from areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions outside the Ukrainian government’s control is one of the priority measures necessary for the deployment of a UN peacekeeping mission to Donbas, US Special Representative for Ukraine Kurt Volker said. At first, the parties should agree that the mission will be deployed and […]

WASHINGTON — Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian election meddling ramped up on Oct.30, with an indictment of President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman and one of his associates. Separately, former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos is pleading guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russians. Read more here.

The federal investigation into whether President Donald Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia took a major turn on Oct.30 as authorities charged three people – a former campaign chief, his business associate and an ex-policy adviser – with crimes including money laundering, lying to the FBI and conspiracy. Read more here.

The charges announced on Oct.30 against Paul Manafort, a former campaign manager to President Donald Trump, as part of a US probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, include money laundering as well as the lesser-known offence of conspiracy against the United States. Read more here.

TBILISI – The Georgian side is expecting specific steps from Kyiv regarding the extradition of former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili, Georgian Deputy Chief Prosecutor Giorgi Gogadze said. “We have made requests with the relevant Ukrainian competent authorities three times and are expecting effective steps from them,” Gogadze told reporters, commenting on the situation with Saakashvili’s […]

Donald Trump’s former presidential campaign manager, Paul Manafort, has been charged with conspiring to defraud the US in his dealings with Ukraine. Read more here.

Police officers broke into Jugendhub, a Kyiv night club, in an anti-drug raid early on Oct. 28 and brutally beat clients regardless of whether they were suspects or not, eyewitnesses to the incident say. And lawyers for the clients say the raid was conducted with numerous violations of the law and procedure. The police deny accusations of […]

The High Court of United Kingdom rejected Ukraine’s appeal on payment of about $12 million of compensation to JKX Oil & Gas (UK). Read more here.

WASHINGTON – Paul Manafort, a businessman and long-time Republican Party operative, surrendered on Oct.30 to the FBI to face the first charges produced by a special counsel investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election. Read more here.

PJSC Ukrnafta saw its net profit rise by 2.6 times (by Hr 670.579 million) in January-September compared to the same period in 2016, to Hr 1.097 billion. According to a company report in the information disclosure system of the National Commission on Securities and the Stock Market, its net income for the first nine months […]

The UEFA Control, Ethics and Disciplinary Body (CEDB) has decided to fine Shakhtar Donetsk 12,000 euro for the conduct of fans at a Champions League match against Italy’s Napoli (2-1) on Sept. 13. Read more here.

WASHINGTON — Rick Gates followed Paul Manafort to Eastern Europe, Africa, the Trump presidential campaign, and now a federal building where he surrendered on Monday to the F.B.I. Read more here.

The top five regions in the rating of the business climate in Ukraine’s regions included Vinnytsia, Lviv, Rivne, Ternopil and Zakarpattia regions, according to the rating of the country’s regions in terms of business climate, posted by the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting. “Vinnytsia region ranked first among the regions. This is the […]

Paul Manafort and Richard Gates, two former top campaign officials for President Donald Trump, have been indicted on 12 counts, according to documents made public on Oct. 30, making them the first people to be charged in special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into 2016 foreign election interference. Read more here.

George Papadopoulos, a foreign policy adviser for U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s successful presidential campaign, pleaded guilty to perjury in early October after apparently lying to FBI agents over his ties to people associated with the Russian government. A plea agreement released by the office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Oct. 30 shows that Papadopoulos […]

Eyewitnesses and human rights advocates say Ukrainian authorities used excessive force when they arrested 17 young clubgoers for drug possession and detained 32 others they described as draft dodgers in an early morning raid on a popular Kyiv nightclub. Read more here.

Fitch expects the next program tranche (possibly $1.9 billion) for Ukraine next year after the approval of the 2018 budget and an agreement between the IMF and the government regarding changes to the formula to adjust household heating tariffs, Fitch Ratings said in a press release. Read more here.