Новости за 02.11.2017

Hackers tried to access confidential data in powerful but stealthy phishing attacks launched in parallel with an eyeball-grabbing ransomware strike called BadRabbit last week, the head of the Ukrainian state cyber police said on Nov. 2. Read more here.

A court has sentenced to eight years in prison a 48-year-old resident of Donetsk, who systematically, from May to June 2015, informed Russia-backed separatists about the whereabouts and movement of Ukrainian Armed Forces units, the press service of the Donetsk Regional Prosecutor’s Office has reported. “The court, supporting the position of the public prosecution, which was […]

Ex-head of the State Agency for Investments and National Projects (Derzhinvestproekt) of Ukraine, Vladyslav Kaskiv, was bailed in the amount of Hr 160,000 on Nov. 1. Lawyer Viktor Ermolayev bailed this amount on Nov. 1, press secretary of Prosecutor General Larysa Sarhan told 112.Ukraine TV channel. In turn, Yermolayev said on his Facebook page: “… […]

WASHINGTON – A visa program aimed at diversifying the U.S. immigrant population came under attack from President Donald Trump on Wednesday after he learned that the man accused of killing eight people in New York City on Oct. 31 used it to enter the country. Read more here.

Ukrainian gymnast Oleg Verniaiev has won the first prize at the Arthur Gander Memorial in the Swiss town of Morges for the fourth consecutive time. Read more here.

MOSCOW – The Moscow Arbitration Court has denied a Ukrainian petition to dismiss Tatneft’s $144 million lawsuit against the country, an Interfax correspondent reported from the courtroom. “The petition is denied,” the judge said. Tatneft requested that the court enforce an international arbitration ruling from July 29, 2014 ordering Ukraine to pay the Russian oil […]

An officer who developed an artillery-guidance app used by the Ukrainian military in its fight against Moscow-backed separatists was among 545 members of Ukraine’s political and military elite targeted by a hacking group with alleged links to Russian security services, according to an investigation by the Associated Press. Read more here.

While internet users held a fierce debate on how to fix an emoji of a burger for smartphones, Ukraine issued a tongue-in-cheek appeal to tech giants Apple and Google to create an emoji for Ukraine’s national dish – borscht. The burger-emoji discussion kicked off on Oct. 30, when Danish writer Thomas Baakdel posted the tweet […]

The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine on Oct. 31 arrested the son of Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, who is arguably the nation’s second most powerful person after President Petro Poroshenko. The arrest is the NABU’s most high-profile anti-graft raid since the detention of State Fiscal Service Chief Roman Nasirov in March and ex-People’s Front party […]

For the chairman of a foreign company that appears to have fallen victim to corporate raiding, Danish citizen Thomas Sillesen is remarkably upbeat about Ukraine. He lists a string of positives about doing business here with his engineering company BIIR: his Ukrainian staff’s high technical skills; their attitude and creativity; the progress of reforms; and […]

WARSAW – Poland plans to bar Ukrainians with “anti-Polish views”, its foreign minister said on Nov. 2, emphasizing the nationalist credentials of his ruling party that often talks of the “historic wrongs” inflicted on Poles by their neighbors. Read more here.

A former high-ranking official of the Georgian Interior Ministry, who was placed on the international wanted list in 2012 at the request of Georgian law enforcers, was arrested by a Ukrainian court for 40 days and the procedure for his extradition to Georgia has begun. “According to a ruling of the Halytsky District Court of […]

When a serious cyberattack against the U.S. begins, at first you’ll blame the weather, or an accident, or corporate incompetence. It’ll be a power outage that lasts a few hours at most. But things will start to get more unsettling when reports trickle out that the blackout is the work of hackers, most likely connected […]

In addition to targeting Democrats and Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, Russian hackers took aim at the emails of top U.S. officials for more than a year leading up to the election. Read more here.

Archaeologists have uncovered a mysterious enclosure hidden deep inside the Great Pyramid of Giza, the oldest of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Read more here.

A total of 178 prisoners have been transferred since 2015 from Russian-annexed Crimea and separatist-held territories of eastern region Donbas to the territory under Kyiv’s control, Verkhovna Rada Human Rights Commissioner Valeria Lutkovska has told Interfax-Ukraine. “Some 166 prisoners were transferred from territories controlled by the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics (DPR/LPR) and 12 from […]

Can we pause on the burger emoji debate for a second? People in Ukraine want a different dish to get some emoji love. Read more here.

WASHINGTON – Paul Manafort, who served briefly as Donald Trump’s election campaign manager, and business associate Rick Gates are expected to make their first appearances on Nov. 2 before the U.S. judge overseeing a criminal case brought by a special counsel investigating campaign ties to Russia. Read more here.

Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka has met with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko for talks in the United Arab Emirates. Read more here.

Ukraine is moving towards a functioning market economy and liberal democracy, after stabilising its economy, cleaning up the banking sector and putting inflation under control, the chief economic adviser to the Ukrainian prime minister told EURACTIV Slovakia. Read more here.

MARIUPOL, Ukraine – The glory days of the volunteer fighting units of the ultra-nationalist Right Sector organization are over – at least for now. The controversial group has been riven by disagreements over politics, and the need to integrate with Ukraine’s military command structure. While there are two splinter groups still operating independently in the […]

Following the talks between President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates, ruler of the Emirate of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, a visa-free regime between the two states was agreed. Read more here.

JOHN KERRY Secretary of state under President Barack Obama, Democratic presidential nominee in 2004, former U.S. senator from Massachusetts. Read more here.

WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump does not recall a meeting with his foreign policy advisers in March 2016 in which one of them suggested he could arrange a meeting between candidate Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, the White House said on Nov. 1. Read more here.

MOSCOW – Technopromexport (TPE) had assumed that turbines for the thermal power plants in Crimea would be manufactured by the Russian company Siemens Gas Turbine Technology, but it turns out they were made in Germany, TPE’s lawyer said in Moscow’s Arbitration Court on Nov. 1. “A condition in the contract had called for the turbines […]