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Ukrinform. Ukraine and world news
April 11, 2018
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin will pay an official visit to Macedonia on April 11-12, the press service of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has ... and preparing for the conclusion of an agreement between the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and the Government of the Republic of Macedonia on theÃâà...
Ukrinform. Ukraine and world news
April 11, 2018
Speaking about Canada, the Ukrainian official said that Canadian government did not give an affirmative answer to the proposal of the national security committee of the Canadian Parliament on the road map for visa liberalization with Ukraine. "Canada has its own migration policy. It has a visa regime withÃâà...
UNIAN
April 11, 2018
Hryvnia quotes against the euro settled at UAH 32.07/32.11, while those against the Russian ruble settled at UAH 0.4088/0.4097. According to the National Bank of Ukraine, the weighted average exchange rate of the hryvnia as of 17:00 was UAH 25.9755 to the dollar, with 454 deals concluded by this timeÃâà...
UNIAN
April 11, 2018
Ukraine retains obligations to pay pensions, although the authorities seek to make sure the money goes to those who are entitled to such payments. ... "If ICRC takes up an obligation to pay pensions on the territories temporarily occupied by Russia, and if they see whom they pay, the Ukrainian governmentÃâà...
UNIAN
April 11, 2018
"For the first time since the 2014 revolution, Ukraine's Democracy Score declined this year," Freedom House said in its study titled "Nations in Transit 2018. ... "If ICRC takes up an obligation to pay pensions on the territories temporarily occupied by Russia, and if they see whom they pay, the UkrainianÃâà...
The Maritime Executive
April 11, 2018
Ukraine has recently ramped up its efforts to asssert its authority over Crimean maritime commerce. On March 25, Ukrainian border forces detained the Russian-flagged, Crimean-registered fishing vessel Nord in the Sea of Azov, along with her crew of 10 fishermen. The Ukrainian authorities charge that theÃâà...
McClatchy Washington Bureau
April 11, 2018
Pinchuk in 2010 bought shares in the Ukrainian insurer Oranta, assets that lawyers later alleged were part of Ablyazov's scheme to steal money from BTA Bank, which Kazakh authorities say was looted to the tune of $5 billion or more. According to the Kazakhs, multiple Ablyazov-linked shell companies inÃâà...
Vox
April 10, 2018
In return, Trump appeared via video conference at an event in Kiev promoting ties between Ukraine and Western countries. Michael Cohen, Trump's personal attorney, reportedly solicited the donation from Pinchuk. Cohen's home, office, and hotel were raided by federal authorities Monday in relation to aÃâà...
Kyiv Post
April 3, 2018
The Ukrainian authorities have not lived up to their commitments, Hahn said. The failure to repeal the expansion of this obligation, rather than to require such declarations only from public officials, is contrary to Ukraine's European aspirations. It is contrary to the strong recommendations given by Ukraine'sÃâà...
The Local Germany
March 20, 2018
The European Union last week extended by a further six months sanctions against Russian and Ukrainian officials over their suspected involvement in the conflict in eastern Ukraine. The EU also has individual sanctions in force against Russia over its 2014 annexation of Crimea from Ukraine.
Human Rights Watch
March 20, 2018
At least five detainees held in secret facilities run by Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) in 2015 and 2016 filed complaints against the authorities for their ... Soon after the release of the report and after representatives of both groups met with Ukrainian officials, the Kharkiv SBU released 13 of the peopleÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
March 20, 2018
Ukrainian officials have been conspicuous in their silence, releasing few if any statements on Huseynli's plight. ... "We call on Ukrainian authorities to immediately return travel documents to Fikret Huseynli and allow him to leave Ukraine," said CPJ Europe and Central Asia Program Coordinator NinaÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
March 20, 2018
A Ukrainian pilot falsely accused by Russia of shooting down the MH17 airliner has reportedly taken his own life. Capt Vladyslav ... The Boeing 777 was en route from Amterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was blown out of the sky over eastern Ukraine in July 2014, with the loss of all 298 people on board.
TASS
March 20, 2018
The ministry noted that the UN mission again noted the lack of political will and interest on the part of the Ukrainian authorities in conducting a full-fledged investigation into all human rights violations by the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the Ukrainian Security Service. "That contributes to further spreadingÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
March 19, 2018
KYIV -- Russian voters in Ukraine were blocked from casting their ballots in Russia's presidential election on March 18, as Ukrainian authorities stepped up security outside diplomatic facilitates and nationalists staged anti-Moscow protests. Two days prior to the election, in which President Vladimir PutinÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
March 5, 2018
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is calling on Ukrainian authorities to investigate allegations that police attacked journalists covering a protest in the capital last weekend. The New York-based media watchdog said on March 5 that at least two journalists were injured in Kyiv two days earlier, whenÃâà...
EUobserver
February 26, 2018
Speculation is rising some former EU officials were paid a total of €2 million to lobby a Russian-backed government in Ukraine by Donald Trump's ... Cox said he had never heard of the Hapsburg Group, had broadly opposed Yanukovich, and is willing to hand over records of his work to US authorities.
New York Times
February 24, 2018
BRUSSELS — Former European leaders who tried to bring Ukraine closer to Europe before a 2014 uprising there reacted with shock on Saturday after a federal indictment accused Paul Manafort, President Trump's former campaign chairman, of secretly paying former European officials some two millionÃâà...
