Новости за 28.11.2017

Twitter and Facebook say they are willing to assist with the UK’s probe of potential Russian interference in last year’s “Brexit” vote for the country to leave the European Union. Read more here.

Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada Human Rights Commissioner Valeriya Lutkovska has asked her Russian counterpart, Tatyana Moskalkova, to provide information about the health of Ukrainian citizen Oleksandr Kolchenko, who is illegally held in Russia, in light of reports about his hospitalization, the Ukrainian commissioner’s press service said. “I request that you tell me the name of the […]

Ukraine, OSCE, and Russia agreed on prisoners exchange; the arrangements were made on the highest possible level. However, Russia is apparently blocking solution of other Donbas-related problems. Yevhen Marchuk, Ukraine’s envoy in security subgroup of Minsk talks said this when commenting on the course of peace negotiations. Read more here.

A peacekeeping mission in Donbas will be necessary until local elections are held there, after which the responsibility for security in the region will be shifted to the Ukrainian government, United States Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations Kurt Volker said. There will be a period of deployment to ensure the safe holding of elections, and […]

MOSCOW – Moscow’s ambassador to the United States will inspect the Russian consulate in San Francisco, from which staff has been expelled, on a visit to California later this month, the Russian embassy to the United States said on Nov.28, according to the news agency RIA. Read more here.  

United States Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations Kurt Volker says Ukraine has own requirements adopted under the Minsk peace agreements on Donbas, they include, among other things, a special status and limited amnesty for Russian-backed militants, according to the Ukrainian news portal LB.ua. Read more here.

US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch notes that the construction of the bridge across the Kerch Strait by the Russian Federation hampers the implementation of transport communication between Ukraine and international markets. Russia’s continued construction of the Kerch Bridge significantly limits the delivery of cargo to Ukrainian ports in the Azov Sea, which are important […]

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson delivered a stern message to Russia during a speech on US-European relations, saying the country’s cyberattacks, energy policy and invasion of Ukraine “are not the behaviors of a responsible nation.” Read more here.

LONDON – Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab has never been asked by Russian intelligence services to spy on targets in the West and the company’s founder and the chief executive said he would move his company out of the country if he ever faced such a demand. Read more here.

WASHINGTON – US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has stressed Washington’s commitment to European security, especially in combating threats from Russia. Read more here.

Interior Minister of Ukraine Arsen Avakov has said they recently have prevented a number of provocative actions aimed at destabilizing the situation in the country and said he does not rule out further provocations. “The internal attack factor remains the main problem. And the fact that it’s getting really tough at the front does not […]

Facebook and Twitter have agreed to hand over some information relating to the reach of Russian-backed posts during the Brexit referendum, according to the House of Commons media watchdog. Read more here.

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is seeking to reassure Europe that the United States remains fully committed to European security, particularly in combating threats from Russia. Read more here.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has announced that the US Department of the Treasury will prepare a new list of Russian businessmen and companies that may be subject to sanctions over Ukraine. Read more here.

The United States emphasizes the need to restore social benefits for internally displaced persons (IDPs), as well as for those who live in certain districts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch has said. The government should optimize the process of granting pensions and restore the payments to which Ukrainians are […]

Attempts to return the Russian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will lead to the discrediting of the Council of Europe as a whole, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has said. “I think that these attempts can discredit the very logic of the Council of Europe, because this platform is […]

The InformNapalm, an international journalist network performing open-source investigations into Russia’s global military activity, has identified two Russian regular army servicemen among the troops fighting against Ukraine in the Donbas. The investigation, published by the organization’s volunteer Irakli Komaxidze on Nov. 27  concerns Aslanbi Tekudzhev and Evgeniy Yepishyn, who are identified as active duty officers belonging to Russia’s 18th […]

The Court of Appeals of Kirovohrad region has confirmed the decision of the first instance to recover more than $200 million from the former top managers and owners of Creative Group, Maksym Berezkin and Yuriy Davydov, in favor of state-controlled Oschadbank. According to a press release from the financial institution, the court issued the relevant […]

Portuguese surrealist painter Santiago Ribeiro finds new and unusual avenues to showcase his art and promote the international art exhibit In an attempt to take art to the people en masse – and promote the largest group exhibit of surreal art this winter — Portuguese surrealist painter Santiago Ribeiro is teasing the public with flash […]

Sales of electric cars in Ukraine (new and used ones) grew 3.2-fold in January-October year-over-year, to 2,225 cars, the Ukrautoprom association has reported. The association said that the share of used electric cars reached 86 percent of the primary registration market, while a year ago it was 42 percent. Residents of Kyiv city bought the largest […]

MOSCOW – A colleague of Katerina Tikhonova from the world of acrobatic rock‘n‘roll has confirmed that she is the younger daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Read more here.

Macedonian police say they have detained dozens of people — including a former interior minister, former police officials, and conservative opposition lawmakers — over violence at the parliament building in April. Read more here.

Kyiv prosecutors on Nov. 28 forwarded an indictment against Andriy Medvedko and Denys Polishchuk, suspected of murdering the Ukrainian journalist Oles Buzyna, to court. “The indictment has been sent for trial to the Shevchenkivsky district court of the capital,” a spokesperson for Kyiv prosecutor’s office said on Nov. 28.

According to the UN, over 10,220 Ukrainians have been killed as a result of Russian aggression since 2014. First Deputy Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Iryna Gerashchenko announced these data at a meeting of the Ukraine-NATO Inter-Parliamentary Council, an Ukrinform correspondent in Brussels reports. Read more here.

BERLIN – A senior Russia’s foreign ministry official on Nov. 28 said he was not worried by the European Union’s move to integrate European defenses, saying the initiative was “just words” and did not appear to be aimed at Moscow. Read more here.