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      Ukraine Needs to Abandon its Soviet Thinking Once and for All
      Jul18

      Ukraine Needs to Abandon its Soviet Thinking Once and for All

      Ukraine’s reform efforts continue to sputter on without any transformative results more than two years after former President Viktor Yanukovych fled to Moscow. The economy’s basic problems have not yet been addressed. It is still bogged down in its Soviet past, with populist forces making illusory promises that appeal to many...

      Tender to sell Odesa chemical plant fails due to lack of interest
      Jul18

      Tender to sell Odesa chemical plant fails due to lack of interest

      The State Property Fund of Ukraine (SPFU) has announced that a tender to sell 99.6% of shares of Odesa Port-Side Chemical Plant failed due to the lack of interest.”The deadline for submitting bids for the tender to sell Odesa Port-Side Plant has expired today, July 18. No bids had been provided by 18:00 Kyiv time. The SPFU will have to recognize...

      Parliament speaker says decommunization as important as judicial reform, national security
      Jul18

      Parliament speaker says decommunization as important as judicial reform, national security

      Ukrainian Parliament Speaker Andriy Parubiy says that the issue of decommunization is as important as judicial reform and national security, according to an UaPosition correspondent.”A clean-up, updating of Ukraine`s map today is a resolute answer to [Russian President Vladimir] Putin, the same way as our achievements on the eastern front are....

      The Guardian: Russia orchestrated state-sponsored doping cover-up, says WADA report
      Jul18

      The Guardian: Russia orchestrated state-sponsored doping cover-up, says WADA report

      A devastating and damning report into Russian sport has found that the country`s government, security services and sporting authorities colluded to hide widespread doping across ”a vast majority” of winter and summer sports, according to The Guardian.The International Olympic Committee has promised it will not hesitate to take ”toughest sanctions...

      Four civilians wounded in shelling by Donbas militants in past two days
      Jul18

      Four civilians wounded in shelling by Donbas militants in past two days

      Four civilians were wounded in artillery shelling by Donbas militants in the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) zone on July 16 and July 17, according to the National Police`s press service.Three of them were wounded in the town of Maryinka, and one in the town of Avdiyivka, it said.The two wounded are women (64 and 35 years old) and two men (67 and...

      Ukraine to join world customs data exchange system
      Jul18

      Ukraine to join world customs data exchange system

      The State Fiscal Service of Ukraine (SFSU) and the World Customs Organization (WCO) have agreed on Ukraine joining the international electronic data exchange system between customs agencies, according to the Ukrainian agency`s press service.”We`ve agreed that the SFSU and the WCO will sign a document that will provide Ukraine access to the...

      How Ukraine Can Win the Information War in a Fact Free World
      Jul18

      How Ukraine Can Win the Information War in a Fact Free World

      What media outlets do you trust? From the Brexit referendum and the US presidential race to Russia’s information war on Ukraine, it is becoming increasingly clear that we now live in a fact-free world where emotions reign supreme and truth is in the eye of the beholder.This trend first became apparent around the time of the 2003 Iraq war....

      Bloomberg: Revived death penalty in Turkey would end EU talks, Germany says
      Jul18

      Bloomberg: Revived death penalty in Turkey would end EU talks, Germany says

      Germany warned Turkey that reinstating the death penalty after the coup attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan would end his country`s bid to join the European Union, according to Bloomberg.”A country that has the death penalty cannot be a member of the European Union – and the introduction of the death penalty in Turkey would mean the...

      Ukraine, Israel to hold third round of free trade talks soon
      Jul18

      Ukraine, Israel to hold third round of free trade talks soon

      Ukrainian Trade Representative Nataliya Mykolska has announced Ukraine and Israel will hold a third round of talks within the week on the creation of a free trade zone.”We`ve had a new meeting with Israel`s Ambassador Eliav Belotserkovsky. We mainly touched upon what specific steps could be taken right now to boost bilateral trade. In a week,...

      Reuters: Six dead, eight wounded after Kazakh shootings – hospital source
      Jul18

      Reuters: Six dead, eight wounded after Kazakh shootings – hospital source

      At least six people have been killed and eight wounded in attacks on police by suspected Islamist militants in Almaty on Monday, a source at the Kazakh city`s emergency aid hospital told Reuters.The source said there were four policemen and one civilian among the dead, as well as one suspected attacker. The Interior Ministry had earlier put the...