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Culture Under Threat: Odesa Philharmonic Orchestra as Case Study
In the last two years, it has become routine to acknowledge that the Maidan revolution unleashed torrents of creative energy in Ukraine. Myriad articles have been written about the ferment of cultural activity taking place across every discipline. Yet classic cultural institutions and performing arts groups continue to face many of the same...
Ukraine PM advocates for increasing EU quotas on Ukrainian agri-exports
Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman has been advocating during his meetings with European officials for the increase of EU quotas on Ukrainian farm produce, which are set by the Association Agreement between the EU and Ukraine. ”I have discussed this issue with EU Commissioner [Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations] Hahn, the...
Ukrainian Ex-Finance Minister Kolobov may make plea deal: Lutsenko
Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko admits that former Ukrainian Finance Minister Yuriy Kolobov, who is now under criminal investigation, will make a plea bargain with the law enforcers. ”Mr. Kolobov has managed to have his name taken off the wanted list through the court. At the moment, his lawyer is in contact with the PGO and the...
IMF to decide on fate of Ukraine loan tranche today
Ukraine`s key creditor, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) after more than a year`s break will review the country`s implementation of its reform program, which was approved in March 2015, and will decide on the disbursement of a loan tranche to Kyiv worth about $1 billion, according to preliminary estimates. It is reported that the IMF...
Why the West Ignores Russia’s Wars
This month will mark one year since the beginning of Russia’s intervention in Syria and two and a half years since its invasion of Ukraine’s Donbas region. In Syria, Russia has indiscriminately bombed inhabited areas using virtually every type of conventional munition in its arsenal—thermobaric, cluster, and incendiary—killing around...
Russian Geneneral Staff orders militants to fully cease fire in Donbas – Ukraine intel
The General Staff of the Russian Federation has ordered the militants in the temporarily occupied areas of Donbas to fully cease fire from 00:00 on September 15, the Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine`s Defense Ministry reported on Facebook. The intelligence also says that the command of the 1st (Donetsk) and the 2nd (Luhansk) Army Corps...
Ukrainian Cabinet`s economic outlook for 2017: 3% growth, 8% inflation
The Cabinet of Ministers has kept the economic growth forecast for 2017 at 3%, with the inflation rate of 8.1%, and an 8.7% unemployment, considering these figures as a base for the formation of the budget for 2017, according to First Deputy Prime Minister, Economy Minister Stepan Kubiv. ”GDP growth is projected at 3%, inflation at 8.1%, the...
NBU to announce decision on restrictions on forex today
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) will release today, September 14, its decision regarding the extension or cancellation of administrative restrictions on the foreign exchange market, introduced in 2014-2015 to stabilize the national currency. The NBU press service said the regulator has not yet made the decision regarding Resolution No. 342 ”On...
Ukrainian Prosecutor General`s Office interrogates Orthodox Church Metropolitan Onufriy
The Prosecutor General`s Office has interrogated Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate Metropolitan Onufriy as a witness in the case of illegal imprisonment of former head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Volodymyr and a metropolitan Drabynko, Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko said in an interview with Channel 24....
Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine sets up Anti-Money Laundering Council
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine within the framework of counteracting legalization of proceeds from crime has created a Special Advisory Board headed by the leadership of the State Financial Monitoring Service of Ukraine, whose task will be to coordinate the activities of various authorities in the fight against illegal financial flows and...