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Norwegian FM: Donbas elections impossible until Russia withdraws troops
Norwegian Foreign Minister Borge Brende has stressed that the holding of elections in Donbas is impossible until Russia withdraws its troops, according to an UaPosition correspondent.”We shouldn`t think that the Minsk agreements only mean elections and decentralization. Minsk also means the withdrawal of Russian armed forces, Russian military...
Ukraine urges Kazakhstan to demand Russia lift transit restrictions on Ukrainian goods
Ukraine`s Ministry of Economic Development and Trade calls on Kazakhstan to demand that the Russian Federation abolish restrictions on the transit of Ukrainian goods, the ministry reported on its official Twitter page.”[Economy Minister Stepan] Kubiv and [Ukraine Trade Representative Natalia] Mykolska have urged Kazakhstan to demand that Russia...
Groysman says Ukraine`s cooperation with IMF ”constructive”
Ukraine`s Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has called the country`s cooperation with its key creditor – the International Monetary Fund (IMF) — constructive, adding that all disputed issues have been resolved.”We have resolved all the issues in the `Government-IMF` framework. And it has been a constructive cooperation,” Groysman said...
EU, Ukraine making significant progress on partnerships: Committee of Regions
Ukraine has taken substantive and very hopeful steps in its reform of local governance, the President of the European Committee of the Regions, Markku Markkula, said today in a meeting of a special task-force created by cities and regions in the European Union to help Ukraine, according to CoR`s press service.Speaking in the southern Ukrainian...
Ukraine Gov`t extends food embargo against Russia until 2018
The Cabinet of Ministers on July 6 has extended its food embargo on Russian goods for six months, until December 31, 2017, in response to a new wave of restrictive measures earlier imposed by Russia.”A draft resolution has been submitted that proposes to extend until December 31, 2017, inclusive, the ban on supplies to the Ukrainian customs...
Antonov purchases $8 mln worth of Russian equipment
On September 19, 2015, Antonov design bureau, which is a Ukrainian aircraft manufacturing and services company and part of the state-run Ukroboronprom Concern, signed an agreement with PJSC ”VASO” (Russia) for the supply of aggregates, parts and components for civil aircraft worth $7.65 million, according to an investigative report by Nashi...
Ukraine sees sevenfold increase of Norway aid since start of Russia`s aggression – Klimkin
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin said that the Kingdom of Norway had increased assistance to Ukraine by seven times since the beginning of the Russian aggression in 2014, according to an UaPosition correspondent.”We were able to discuss the whole range of issues that we had planned for today`s conversation, having started with...
Ukraine to partner up with U.S. in Antares space launch
Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States Valeriy Chaly said that Ukraine and the U.S. plan to jointly launch the space rocket Antares.”We plan to launch the rocket together with the U.S in the coming months”, the diplomat said, Ukraine Today reported citing the Ukrainian media.Chaly says Ukraine is among the world`s top ten countries in space...
Barcelona football star Messi sentenced to 21 mths in prison
Barcelona football star Lionel Messi has been sentenced to 21 months in prison after a court in Barcelona found him guilty of three counts of tax fraud, a statement from the court said on Wednesday, according to Reuters.The court also sentenced the Argentine soccer player`s father, Jorge, to 21 months in prison for the same three crimes. The...
Gerashchenko reveals details of Ukrainian Colonel`s captivity
Colonel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Ivan Beziazykov, who was released on Tuesday after two years spent in militant captivity, had been held in the building of the Donetsk TV station, Ukraine`s representative in the humanitarian subgroup at the Trilateral Contact Group on Donbas settlement, first Deputy Chairperson of the Verkhovna Rada of...