Новости за 22.11.2017

Russia said Wednesday it will make every effort to defend Russian billionaire businessman and Senator Suleiman Kerimov, who was arrested in France Monday in connection with a tax evasion case. Read more here

MOSCOW — Russia has withdrawn a bid to host the 2023 basketball World Cup, saying that international criticism of the country’s athletes was to blame for the decision. Read more here

Ukraine will lose the opportunity to receive a €600 million tranche of macro-financial assistance from the European Union if in the near future the authorities fail to fulfill a number of requirements, head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine Hugues Mingarelli told Europeiska Pravda. Read more here

The British Ministry of Defense is ready to cooperate with the Interior Ministry of Ukraine in professional training of personnel of the National Guard of Ukraine, the press service of the National Guard said. During a working meeting with representatives of the National Guard, Defense Attaché of the UK Embassy in Ukraine David Warner noted […]

MOSCOW – Opposition activist Alexei Navalny said the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has decided to consider his appeal against the new judgment in the Kirovles case. “On November 13, the European Court accepted the second Kirovles case for consideration,” Navalny wrote on his Telegram account. On February 8, 2017, Kirov’s Leninsky District Court […]

Russian hackers are using New Yorkers’ stolen identities to get net neutrality repealed — and New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says the feds are refusing to cooperate with investigations into the fraud. Read more here

In 2011, Nord Stream AG, a consortium led by Russia’s Gazprom natural gas company, started looking at plans to build a new pipeline under the Baltic Sea, which would double Russia’s gas exports to Germany. Read more here

MOSCOW – Russian television personality Kseniya Sobchak, who has announced her intention to run for president in 2018, said that the Prosecutor General’s Office is inquiring into her statements regarding Crimea. “A check by the Prosecutor General’s Office is already underway, they’re inquiring into my statements on Crimea, we received an official letter,” Sobchak told […]

Among the priorities of the European Investment Plan for Ukraine, which envisages EUR 50 billion worth of direct investment in the Ukrainian economy over a 10-year period will be infrastructure development and hi-tech, Foreign Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin told reporters ahead of the government meeting on Wednesday. Read more here

Larysa Golnyk, a judge of Poltava’s Oktryabrsky District Court, was attacked and beaten by unknown men as she was leaving the court building on Nov. 22. Golnyk is known for blowing a whistle on Poltava Mayor Oleksandr Mamai allegedly trying to bribe her to close a corruption case against him in 2016. Golnyk said that […]

Transparency International (TI) Ukraine has called for strengthening control over violations of anti-tobacco legislation in order to stop tobacco corporations from interfering in the state healthcare policy. “To stop interference of tobacco corporations with state healthcare policy in Ukraine, it is necessary to strengthen control over violations of anti-tobacco legislation, to counteract the conflict of […]

A Kyiv court has released a Kazakh blogger from detention at a Ukrainian lawmaker’s request while authorities consider her possible extradition to Kazakhstan. Read more here

The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) continues to note the presence of military-type vehicles and unidentified armed men – many of them with white arm-bands and covered faces – in the centre of Luhansk city. This was reported by the OSCE press service. Read more here

A video has been uploaded on social networks showing one of the militant commanders in the so-called “Luhansk People’s Republic” appealing to the self-proclaimed “leader” of the neighboring “Donetsk People’s Republic” (DPR) terrorist organization, Alexander Zakharchenko, to “revive ‘Novorossiya’.” Read more here

Most Ukrainians believe the conflict in eastern Ukraine is the most urgent problem in the state. Read more here

The volume of construction work in Ukraine in October 2017 increased by 13.1 percent compared to October 2016, while the increase in September 2017 from September 2016 was 10.2 percent. According to the State Statistics Service, the data are given without taking into account the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea and Sevastopol and part of the […]

MOSCOW – The presence of armed men in the streets of the capital of Ukraine’s breakaway Luhansk region is an attempted coup by a fired local police chief, Igor Plotnitsky, the self-proclaimed leader of the Moscow-backed separatist stronghold of Luhansk, said on Nov. 22. Read more here.

Industrial production in Ukraine in October increased by 0.4 percent compared to the same month in 2016, while in September it decreased by 0.3 percent, and in August grew by 1.2 percent, the State Statistics Service has said. The agency said with the adjustment to the effect of calendar days industrial production in October 2017 […]

Ukraine’s National Police on Oct. 21 illegally deported three Georgian citizens without court warrants to Georgia, Ukraine’s Human Rights Ombudsman Valeria Lutkovska said at a news briefing on Nov. 22, citing an official letter that she had received from the State Migration Service. Forced deportation without a court warrant is explicitly banned by Ukrainian law. […]

Russia has warned the EU against promoting itself in what it sees as its neighbourhood, amid final preparations for an EU summit with former Soviet states. Read more here.

A total of 2,400 women have signed contracts for military service in the Armed Forces of Ukraine this year. Read more here.

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has been meeting with leaders of the Greens and the Free Democrats (FDP) parties to discuss a way forward, following the collapse of German coalition talks. Read more here.

Of course you’ve heard of Ukraine and Romania. But did you know that wedged between those two countries is the Republic of Moldova? If not, you’re not alone. Moldova is one of the least visited countries in Europe. But don’t cry for Moldova. The tiny nation has something no one else has: Mileștii Mici Winery, […]

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. — Army National Guard members from upstate New York are taking over the mission to train Ukrainian soldiers in their homeland. Read more here.

Georgian citizens were deported from Ukraine in October and November with violations of Ukrainian legislation and relevant instructions, ombudsperson Valeria Lutkovska has said, alleging that the National Police could rig the documents and facts on these issues. “The state, having carried out the measures not within the framework of the legislation, having gone beyond the […]