Новости за 11.12.2017

ArtDocFest, a popular Russian festival of documentary films in its tenth year, made news in Moscow this weekend — but not on the culture pages. Read more here.

Ukrainian prosecutors on Dec. 11 sought house arrest for former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili, who is accused by the Ukrainian authorities of trying to stage a coup sponsored by Russia. Read more here.

Interior Minister of Ukraine Arsen Avakov has arrived in the Obolonsky District Court of Kyiv, where the case of high treason of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych is being heard. Currently, Yatsenyuk is giving testimony.

Confused by all the news about Russia and the 2016 presidential election? We are here to help. Read more here.

The total debt of the population, enterprises and institutions for heating and hot water to PJSC Kyivenergo as of Dec. 1, was Hr 4 billion. According to Director of Kyiv Energy Supply Company Andriy Taliar, the total debt of the population for heating and hot water in Kyiv is about Hr 3 billion. “We hope […]

The number of Ukrainians traveling to European Union (EU) countries has significantly increased after the introduction of a visa-free measure, a press release issued by the EU said on Dec. 11. Read more here.

Polish Ambassador to Ukraine Jan Pieklo has said he hopes that a new concept of Polish-Ukrainian relations will be developed during Polish President Andrzej Duda’s visit to Ukraine so as to help eliminate tension in relations between the two countries. Read more here.

New York City Police say a man is being held after an explosion at a bus station in Manhattan. Read more here.

Shakhtar will challenge Roma in Champions League 1/8 finals while Dynamo Kyiv is set to play with AEK in Europa League 1/16 finals. Read more here.

The best books of 2017 are about music, nicotine and the tsunami in Japan. Read more here.

Mikheil Saakashvili, the former Georgian president turned opposition leader in Ukraine, is in court in the Ukrainian capital. Read more here.

Batkivschyna Party leader Yulia Tymoshenko has said she is willing to take New Forces Movement Party leader and former Georgia President Mikheil Saakashvili “into her custody,” Baktivschyna Party parliament deputy Alona Shkrum has said. “Yulia Volodymyrivna is ready to take Mikheil Saakashvili into her custody. ‘With the aim of re-educating,’ Saakashvili added and laughed,” Shkrum, […]

President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian troops to withdraw from Syria during a surprise visit to a Russian airbase in the country on Dec. 11 morning, where he was greeted by Syrian President Bashar Assad. Read more here.

On Dec. 11, hryvnia quotations against the dollar on the interbank forex market settled at Hr 27.13/27.17 to the dollar by the middle of trade, a commercial bank dealer told UNIAN. Read more here.

TOKYO – Russia’s military chief warned on Dec. 11 that military exercises by Japan, the United States and South Korea aimed at countering North Korea only raise hysteria and create more instability in the region. Read more here.

The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has estimated the losses of the Ukrainian economy as a result of the trade blockade of the temporary occupied areas in Donetsk and Luhansk regions at $1.8 billion ($66.4 million) in 2017 and $0.5 billion ($18.4 million) in 2018, according to the regulator’s press service. Read more here.

Ukrainian businessman Serhiy Kurchenko, who is hiding in the Russian Federation, has sued President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko. As reported in the Unified State Register of Court Rulings, the lawsuit was registered on Oct. 4 this year under No. 2-4203/17, the essence of the dispute is: “On the protection of honor, dignity and business reputation.” […]

Polish Ambassador to Ukraine Jan Pieklo in an interview with Dilova Stolytsia publication said he believed certain marginal groups both in Poland and Ukraine want to spoil bilateral relations between the two countries, much to Russia’s pleasure. Read more here.

For eight years, Kazakhstan’s BTA Bank has waged a legal war on three continents against former Chairman Mukhtar Ablyazov. It’s a clash that has featured death threats, a hack of Kazakh government computers and at least $4 billion in missing bank assets. Now, court cases playing out on both sides of the Atlantic could pull […]

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) has been growing for six consecutive quarters. Read more here.

Mikheil Saakashvili, leader of the Movement of New Forces and former president of Georgia, is feeling well, Yuriy Derevianko, his associate and an independent deputy in Ukraine, said. “He feels fine and full of energy despite being on hunger strike,” Derevianko told reporters in the morning near Kyiv’s Pechersky District Court, where Saakashvili is now […]

In what was deemed a technical chess match between two amateur greats, Vasyl Lomachenko (10-1, 8ko’s) and Guillermo Rigondeaux’s (17-1, 11ko’s) first in a lifetime battle, was little more than a mismatch. Ukraine’s Vasyl Lomachenko didn’t, at any point, allow Cuba’s Guillermo Rigondeaux to fight his style, until the beginning of round seven, when a […]

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry on the Human Rights Day marked on Dec. 10 urged the Russian Federation to stop repression in the occupied Crimea and to release all illegally detained persons. Read more here.

The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (OSCE SMM) has recorded an increase in the number of ceasefire violations in Donbas for the period from 7.30 p.m. on Dec. 7 to 7.30 p.m. on Dec. 8, according to a reported published by the organization on Dec. 9. “In Donetsk region the SMM recorded more ceasefire […]

A Ukrainian court is set to decide on Dec. 11 whether to impose pretrial restrictions on jailed Ukrainian opposition leader Mikheil Saakashvili’s movements. Read more here.