Section: News & Summaries

      Russia`s Eurovision participant Samoilova banned from entering Ukraine
      Mar22

      Russia`s Eurovision participant Samoilova banned from entering Ukraine

      The SBU Security Service of Ukraine has banned Eurovision 2017 participant from Russia Yulia Samoilova from entering Ukraine. ”The Security Service of Ukraine has put Russian citizen Yulia Samoilova on Ukraine`s stop list for a period of three years,” SBU press secretary Olena Hitlyanska wrote on Facebook. The decision was made on the basis of...

      Ukraine`s spring sowing cost up $3.892 mln in 2017
      Mar22

      Ukraine`s spring sowing cost up $3.892 mln in 2017

      The cost of the spring sowing campaign launched in Ukraine will amount to early UAH 103 billion, or US$3.892 million, which is 14% more than last year, according to the Ukrainian AgriBusiness Club Association (UCAB) press service. This year`s campaign cost will increase due to a 26% rise in the cost of fuel compared with the last year, as well as...

      Sophisticated scheme of money laundering from Russia to EU, U.S. revealed
      Mar22

      Sophisticated scheme of money laundering from Russia to EU, U.S. revealed

      The Laundromat is a name given by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project to a vast money-laundering scheme involving Russian officials and insiders moving billions of dollars into Europe, the U.S. and other countries between autumn 2010 and spring 2014, according to The Guardian. Law enforcement officers in Moldova and Latvia have...

      Macron on top after first presidential debate of French race
      Mar22

      Macron on top after first presidential debate of French race

      In the first debate between the main contenders to become France`s next president the centrist front-runner emerged with his lead intact, according to Bloomberg. Emmanuel Macron, a 39-year-old running for office for the first time, parried attacks from both ends of the political spectrum as he navigated questions on the economy, terrorism, and...

      MFA Ukraine says detention of UNIAN journalist in Moscow ”provocation”
      Mar21

      MFA Ukraine says detention of UNIAN journalist in Moscow ”provocation”

      The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine called the detention of an UNIAN journalist in Moscow Roman Tsymbaliuk a provocation by Russian authorities, according to ministry`s press secretary Mariana Betsa. ”The detention of journalist R. Tsymbaliuk is a provocation on the part of the Russian Federation,” she tweeted. ”The Consul took off to the...

      Manafort falsified invoice to Belize company to legitimize Yanukovych`s $750,000 payment to himself – Ukrainian MP
      Mar21

      Manafort falsified invoice to Belize company to legitimize Yanukovych`s $750,000 payment to himself – Ukrainian MP

      Viktor Yanukovych`s Party of Regions in 2009 through deliberately concluded fictitious contracts on the alleged sale of computers through an offshore company transferred $750,000 to the account of the ousted Ukrainian president`s former adviser Paul Manafort, MP Serhiy Leshchenko told a Kyiv press conference Tuesday, an UaPosition correspondent...

      Tillerson plans to skip NATO meeting, visit Russia in April – media
      Mar21

      Tillerson plans to skip NATO meeting, visit Russia in April – media

      U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson plans to skip a meeting with NATO foreign ministers next month in order to stay home for a visit by China`s president and will go to Russia later in April, U.S. officials said on Monday, disclosing an itinerary that allies may see as giving Moscow priority over them, according to Reuters. Tillerson intends to...

      Moscow police detain UaPosition correspondent Roman Tsymbaliuk
      Mar21

      Moscow police detain UaPosition correspondent Roman Tsymbaliuk

      Ukrainian journalist Roman Tsymbaliuk, who has an official accreditation of the Russian Foreign Ministry, was detained in Moscow along with his interviewee, a graduate student who earlier flew a Ukrainian flag over the Moscow State University dorm. ”We found Zakhar, the hero who flew the Ukrainian flag over Moscow State University on the third...

      Private Domain: USA: A Note on “Proprietary Government”
      Mar21

      Private Domain: USA: A Note on “Proprietary Government”

      Read as I do. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was poised to ride this momentum into Northeast Asia last week, but instead sustained a series of self-inflicted wounds. Before even departing Washington, he broke tradition by not inviting the State Department press corps on his plane, needlessly damaging relations with the media and forgoing the...

      Lukashenko reports arrests of militants preparing armed provocation in Belarus, accuses Ukraine, Lithuania and Poland
      Mar21

      Lukashenko reports arrests of militants preparing armed provocation in Belarus, accuses Ukraine, Lithuania and Poland

      Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko announces the militants who had been preparing to stage an armed provocation have been apprehended in Belarus, BelTA has learned. When asked about possible reasons behind the more active operation of the so-called fifth column and various opposition bodies lately, Lukashenko said: ”It turned out that some of...