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Assange to Snowden: `We don`t contaminate the evidence` of leaked documents – media
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is firing back against critics, including former National Security Agency contractor-turned-whistleblower Edward Snowden, who say the organization`s aversion to selectivity in the information it publishes is dangerous, according to Yahoo! News. ”We don`t contaminate the evidence,” Assange told CNN`s Jake Tapper on...
Deficit of Ukraine`s foreign trade in goods estimated at almost $700 mln in H1
Deficit of Ukraine`s foreign trade in goods estimated at almost $700 mln in H1 Goods exports from Ukraine in January-June 2016 fell year-over-year by 10.7%, to $16.623 billion, while goods imports dropped by 5.3%, to $17.306 billion. The ratio of coverage of imports by exports was 0.96 (it was 1.02 in January-June 2015). Ukraine traded with...
Ukrainian farmers gather almost 38 mln tonnes of grain
Ukrainian farmers had threshed 37.8 million tonnes of early grain and leguminous croups from 9.6 million hectares (ha), which is 99% of the target, by August 15, 2016, according to the Ukrainian Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry`s press service. The average yield capacity is 3.94 tonnes per ha, the ministry said. Farmers harvested 26.4 million...
Why Putin Turns the Heat Up on Ukraine Now
Russian President Vladimir Putin may be preparing a new offensive in Ukraine. Russia has prepared an excuse for a military incursion to connect Crimea with rebel-held areas of the Donbas in eastern Ukraine. Fighting along the corridor has already heated up; the Ukrainian military reports that on the night of August 8 more than 200 artillery and...
Ukraine`s GDP sees annual growth of 1.3% in 2Q 2016
Ukraine`s gross domestic product in the second quarter of 2016, when seasonally adjusted increased by 0.6%, as compared to the previous quarter, after a 0.7% decline, according to the State Statistics Service of Ukraine. In annual terms, the growth of Ukraine`s GDP in the second quarter of 2016 accelerated to 1.3% year-over-year, after an...
EU Delegation concerned by incomplete launch of e-declaration system in Ukraine
The EU Delegation to Ukraine says it is concerned by the incomplete launch of the e-asset declaration system in Ukraine. ”We are very disappointed and concerned by the incomplete launch of the electronic asset declaration system by the NAPC [National Agency for Prevention of Corruption] last night, without the necessary certification,” the EU...
Ukraine reports 1 soldier wounded in past 24 hours
One Ukrainian soldier was wounded in fighting in eastern Ukraine in the past 24 hours, according to presidential spokesman for ATO issues Oleksandr Motuzianyk. ”There was one wounded in action (WIA),” Motuzianyk said at a briefing in Kyiv on Monday, a UaPosition correspondent reported. According to Motuzianyk, the soldier was wounded in the...
Ukraine`s underground gas stocks grow to 11.4 bcm
Stocks of natural gas in Ukraine`s underground storage facilities grew by 3.8%, or 422 million cubic meters (mcm), from 10.973 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas on August 6 to 11.395 bcm of gas on August 13, according to Ukrtransgaz, operator of Ukraine`s gas transport system. The amount of gas pumped daily into the underground facilities, as of...
Secret ledger in Ukraine lists cash for Donald Trump`s campaign chief
On a leafy side street off Independence Square in Kyiv is an office used for years by Donald J. Trump`s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, when he consulted for Ukraine`s ruling political party. His furniture and personal items were still there as recently as May, according to The New York Times. See also: Ex-Yanukovych adviser to lead Trump...
Ukrainian Prime Minister Groysman demands e-declaration system be fully operating soon
Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has demanded that the internet-based income declaration system be fully operational as soon as possible, the Department of Information and Communication of the Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers told a UaPosition correspondent. ”So, the electronic declaration system started to work today, though,...