Новости за 11.12.2017

Kyiv’s Pechersk Court on Dec. 11 released ex-Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili from custody, rejecting prosecutors’ motion to place him under house arrest. Hundreds of protesters gathered in front of the court to support Saakashvili. After Saakashvili was released, he marched with his supporters to his house on Kostyolna Street near Maidan Nezalezhnosti. Prosecutor General Yuriy […]

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin, in his column for Evropeiska Pravda, wrote about the conclusions of the Venice Commission as to whether the education law recently adopted in Ukraine doesn’t break any laws. Read more here.

A federal judge on Dec.11 warned former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort that he shouldn’t discuss his case in the press after documents showed Manafort was involved in drafting an op-ed defending his work in Ukraine. Read more here.

Ukrainian opposition figure Mikheil Saakashvili was freed from detention on Dec.11, after a Ukrainian judge turned down the prosecutors’ request to place him under house arrest – the latest twist in his dramatic standoff with the authorities. Read more here.

Ex-premier of Ukraine, leader of the People’s Front party, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, has said that in Feb. 2014 he had two talks with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on the initiative of the Russian side; in his opinion, these conversations indicate that Russia then recognized the legitimacy of the change of power in Ukraine and the […]

US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson scolded Manafort for contributing to an opinion article published last week in the Kyiv Post despite her order to refrain from using the media to influence public opinion about his Oct. 27 money-laundering and conspiracy indictment in the news media. Read more here.

US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson scolded Manafort for contributing to an opinion article published last week in the Kyiv Post despite her order to refrain from using the media to influence public opinion about his Oct. 27 money-laundering and conspiracy indictment in the news media. Read more here.

ANKARA – Russia and Turkey agree that a US decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel is destabilizing the situation in the Middle East, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Dec.11. Read more here.

Businessman Serhiy Kurchenko has said he does not know the leader of the New Forces Movement party, ex-President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili, but is acquainted with President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko. “I do not know Saakashvili and I do not want to get acquainted with him, but I know Poroshenko very well,” Kurchenko’s press service […]

WASHINGTON – A US federal judge on Dec.11 issued a stern warning to President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort to refrain from making statements to the media that could harm his right to a fair trial. Read more here.

Official Kyiv clearly defines the goals of cooperation with NATO, Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze has said. “The biggest strategic achievement of the year is that we have finalized our vision of the goals of cooperation with NATO, which is enshrined in legislation: Ukraine’s strategic goal is to achieve […]

WASHINGTON – Netcracker Technology Corp will not face criminal charges for allowing Russian nationals without security clearance to work on a US defense project after it agreed to adopt enhanced cyber security measures, authorities said on Dec.11. Read more here.

The next court hearing on Yanukovych’s state treason is scheduled for Dec. 13, as ruling judge Vladyslav Deviatko said. Read more here.

Baktivschyna faction leader Yulia Tymoshenko said she finds the detention of Mikheil Saakashvili, leader of the Movement of New Forces party and former president of Georgia, to be baseless. “If there is a court in Ukraine, Mikheil Saakashvili should now be released from custody right in this room, without any house arrests. Just release a […]

Hundreds of supporters of Ukrainian opposition politician Mikheil Saakashvili have clashed with police in Kyiv as a hearing was held on whether he should remain in custody. Read more here.

US Secretary of Defense (in 2015-2017) Ashton Carter believes that the idea of rapprochement of the US with Russia has no support either in the US society, in the press, or among politicians. It is important to note that the opportunity to relax relations with Russia now has no support either in the media, in […]

UNITED NATIONS – China failed on Dec.11 to stop the fourth annual United Nations Security Council meeting on human rights abuses in North Korea, saying it was not the right forum to discuss the issue and warning that it could further escalate tensions in the region. Read more here.

The Ukrainian military drama ‘Cyborgs’ earned more than 300 000 dollars in the first weekend of the release as Pylyp Ilienko, the Head of the State Film reported. Read more here.

On Dec. 10, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) received the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo. ICAN won the prize “for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons.” Beatrice Fihn, […]

Obolonsky District Court of Kyiv will continue considering the case of high treason of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych on Dec. 13, at 10 a.m. On Dec. 11, after the interrogation of Interior Minister of Ukraine Arsen Avakov as a witness in the case, the court declared a break in the session until Dec. 13, when […]

Businessman Serhiy Kurchenko has said he does not know the leader of the New Forces Movement party, ex-President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili, but is acquainted with President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko. “I do not know Saakashvili and I do not want to get acquainted with him, but I know well Poroshenko,” Kurchenko’s press service quoted […]

Playing between mines and unexploded bombs, children in a small village in eastern Ukraine, less than a kilometer from the front line, have to cope with traumatic experiences, while parents look on helplessly. Watch a video here.

Former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych signed 50 agreements in favor of Russia from 2010 to 2014, former Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has said. Read more here.

Avdiyivka, Donetsk region was shelled with grads on Dec. 11, as Pavlo Malykhin, head of local administration, writes on Facebook. Due to the attack, the area where the gas pipeline is being built was damaged, as well as the powerline. The city was left without power for about half an hour. Read more here.

Ukraine’s state-run military-industrial concern Ukroboronprom rose in the SIPRI Top 100 arms-producing and military services companies by seven positions in 2016 and ranks 77th, with the sales index at the level of $1.06 billion. Read more here.