Новости за 16.11.2017

The head of the European Council, Donald Tusk, has urged EU nations to swiftly adopt a change of rules to help the bloc in its attempt to regulate Russia’s planned Nord Stream 2 pipeline. Read more here. 

A driver of Dacia Logan ran into ‘Karavan’ hypermarket in Kharkiv on November 16 as 057 reported citing the local police. The car continued to run when it was in the hypermarket. Read more here. 

Russia’s central bank has the tools to address market shocks if the United States applies new sanctions on Russian treasury bonds, its central bank governor said on November 16. Read more here. 

The District Administrative Court of the city of Kyiv has opened an inquiry into the suit of New Forces Movement party’s leader, ex-head of Odesa Regional State Administration and ex-President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, against the Interior Ministry of Ukraine and the State Migration Service. The plaintiff requests the court to recognize as illegal and […]

Oleg Senstov, Ukrainian movie maker faced health issues while in detention in Russia. According to his lawyer Serhiy Dinze, Sentsov suffered from bad nutrition regime, which resulted in weight loss and heart problems. On November 15, he was transferred to the White Bear penal colony; doctors requested his patient chart to assign the diet and […]

The OSCE’s media watchdog said on November 16 moves by the United States and Russia to force some foreign media to register as “foreign agents” were unacceptable and dangerous. Russia’s lower house of parliament this week approved a law allowing Moscow to force foreign media to describe news they provide to Russians as the work […]

The EU allocated more than 12 billion euros to Ukraine during the last three years as Hugues Mingarelli, the Head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine claimed this at the conference as RBK-Ukraine reported. Read more here. 

Venezuela won easier debt terms from Russia and got a vote of confidence from China on November 15,  as the oil-rich country said it had started making interest payments on bonds after a delay that had threatened to trigger a default. Read more here. 

Foreign Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin has met with the leadership of the global satellite operator Societe Europeenne des Satellites (SES) during his visit to Luxembourg. “An exciting meeting with the leadership of the global satellite communications operator SES. We spoke about the growth of the telecommunications services market and the company’s activities in Ukraine,” […]

Public activists, known for active steps in implementing reforms in Ukraine, face threats and cases of legal harassment in their work. U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch reported this when speaking at the forum for civil society organization development in Kyiv. Read more here. 

A brother of Kyrgyzstan’s president-elect, Sooronbai Jeenbekov, has been appointed as Kyrgyzstan’s new ambassador to Ukraine. Kyrgyzstan’s presidential website said on November 16 that President Almazbek Atambaev had signed a decree appointing Jusupbek Sharipov as Bishkek’s ambassador to Kyiv. Read more here. 

Ukraine’s roads are among the worst ones in the world, with only Mozambique and Moldova lagging behind. However, in the coming years, the situation may change. The government plans to carry out a tremendous renovation of the country’s motorway infrastructure. UNIAN decided to find out where road construction and repair will start and what will be […]

Moscow’s Tagansky District Court has turned down the investigator’s pretrial incarceration request with regard to the former head of Ukraine’s State Management Office and the Ukrainian national joint-stock company Naftogaz, Ihor Bakai, who is suspected of embezzling $12 million dollars. “The court resolved on November 15 to refuse the investigator’s request to choose a measure […]

Detectives from the National Anti-corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) have conducted searches and detained the eighth suspect as part of an inquiry into embezzlement of funds from the ‘Wall’ project to build fences and dig a ditch on the border with Russia. “The suspect may have been involved in a corruption scheme aimed at taking […]

Russia on November 16 named nine U.S. government-sponsored news outlets likely to be labelled “foreign agents” under a new law that is being rushed through parliament in response to what Moscow says is unacceptable U.S. pressure on Russian media. Russia’s lower house of parliament approved the law – allowing Moscow to force foreign media to […]

The National Agency for Corruption Prevention has refused to conduct a full audit of the declaration of Chief of the State Guard Department Valeriy Heletey for 2016, the Center for Combating Corruption (CCC) has said. “Refuse the subject of the request in a full verification of the declaration of the person authorized to perform the […]

Russia, Turkey and Iran will hold summit talks on Syria next week as Ankara threatens a possible attack on U.S.-allied Kurdish forces and tensions rise between Moscow and Washington over the future of the war-torn state.  Russian President Vladimir Putin will host his Turkish and Iranian counterparts, Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Hassan Rouhani, on Nov. […]

November 24, 2013. On this date, “about 50,000 demonstrators rallied in the center of Kyiv … to demand that Ukraine’s government reverse course and sign a landmark agreement with the European Union in defiance of Russia,” The Washington Post reported in a brief the following morning. Read more here. 

The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s parliament, passed government-prepared draft law No. 7275 in the first reading and as a whole on November 16 to amend some legislative acts to ensure that law enforcement observes the rights of participants in criminal proceedings and other persons by agencies amid pre-trial investigations, according to an UNIAN correspondent. Read more […]

MSP Stiftung international investment fund (Liechtenstein) has concentrated 9.9 percent of shares in PJSC Alfa-Bank (Kyiv), according to a press release of the bank. “MSP Stiftung fund, created by Martin Schlaff, one of the largest Austrian businessmen with interests in the financial sector and industrial production, became a shareholder of PJSC Alfa-Bank (Ukraine). After agreeing […]

The competition commission has elected Roman Truba as director of the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI). Such a decision was supported by nine out of 19 commission members, Ukrinform reports. Read more here. 

Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline contradicts the strategic goal of the European Union on gas supplies through Ukraine. Read more here.

The Ukrainian parliament has passed a bill that amends existing legislation to protect businesses against extortion, harassment, and illegal searches by law enforcement agencies. Read more here.

The tender commission for holding a competition for the post of director of the State Investigations Bureau recommends to appoint Roman Truba, head of the department of LLC legal company ‘Legal Sector’ as head of the State Bureau of Investigations. The decision to introduce to Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman the candidacy of Truba for the […]

In Ukraine, opinion leaders in social networks have become a special caste that have a significant influence over the country’s society, according to Novoye Vremya magazine. Read more here.