Section: News & Summaries
Ukrainian Foreign Minister to meet Tillerson in Washington D.C. March 7
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin will pay a working visit to Washington, D.C. March 6-7, where he is scheduled to meet with U.S. Secretary of State Tillerson, as well as representatives of the U.S. Administration and Congress, according to the MFA Ukraine press service. Klimkin`s visit is aimed to provide an additional impetus to the...
EU lifts sanctions against Yanukovych ally Yuriy Ivanyushchenko
The European Union has extended for one more year personal restrictive measures imposed against 15 former Ukrainian officials. Yury Ivanyushchenko, an ally of ousted former Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych was removed from this sanction list. The decision should be endorsed by the Council of the EU and published in the Official Journal of...
Investment in Ukraine`s agriculture hits record high in 2016 – experts
Capital investment in Ukraine`s agriculture in 2016 was estimated at UAH 44 billion, or about US$1.62 billion, which was a record high level over Ukraine`s independence, and 1.5 times up on the 2015 figure, according to the press service of the National Scientific Center ”Institute of Agrarian Economy.” ”Investment in agriculture in 2016 reached...
Ukrainian prosecutors summon former tax chief Klymenko
The Chief Military Prosecutor`s Office has summoned ex-head of the State Tax Service (2011-2012) and income and tax minister (2012 to 2014) Oleksandr Klymenko for investigative and procedural actions. ”The Chief Military Prosecutor`s Office of the Prosecutor General`s Office (PGO) is carrying out a special pre-trial investigation into criminal...
Capital investment in Ukraine`s agro-industrial sector in 2016 hits $2.25 bln
Capital investment in the Ukrainian agro-industrial sector totaled UAH 61.1 billion, or US$2.25 billion, last year, accounting for 18.7% of total capital investment injected in the country`s economy, according to the Ukrainian Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry`s press service, which cited State Statistics Service data. ”According to the State...
Another Luhansk terrorists` leader aka “Plastun” reportedly eliminated in Donbas
Ukrainian Deputy Minister for temporarily occupied territory and internally displaced people George Tuka says a ”warlord” of the so-called ”Luhansk People`s Republic” (”LPR”) terrorist organization, a Russian mercenary, nom-de-guerre `Plastun,` has been killed in the Donbas conflict zone. ”Another one has joined the `ceasefire`…,” he wrote on...
Pro-Russian Bosnian Serb leader claims Crimea issue ”settled”
The so-called ”president” of the self-proclaimed Republic of Srpska (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Milorad Dodik, has said that the Russian annexation of Crimea is ”settled,” according to the Russian newspaper Izvestia. Speaking about the results of the so-called referendum in Crimea, he said that the ”will of the people must be respected,” Izvestia...
International Committee of the Red Cross head arrives in Ukraine
President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Peter Maurer has arrived in Ukraine. ”[I`ve] arrived in Ukraine for a visit. For nearly three years, people in the east have lived in the shadow of war, and hostilities again on the rise,” he wrote on Twitter on March 6. Earlier, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko urged Maurer...
Fillon France election: `No one can stop me` says candidate
Beleaguered French politician Francois Fillon has declared ”no one can stop” his bid for the presidency after a mass rally attended by thousands in Paris, according to the BBC. The center-right candidate insisted he would not be standing down during an interview on French television, despite growing calls for him to quit the race, the BBC said....
Murray at Middlebury
Four days ago, conservative libertarian Charles Murray stood on a stage at Vermont’s Middlebury College to talk about his latest book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, with political science students. Instead of being heard out, this in Murray’s own words is what happened before a packed house: Then I went onstage, got...