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Ukrainian lawmakers fail to increase minimum income level
Ukrainian lawmakers did not support a bill envisaging an increase in the minimum income level, the cancellation of pensions taxation and limitations on pension payments to working pensioners.Bill No. 4316 on amendments to the law of Ukraine ”On the State Budget of Ukraine for 2016” (in part of social payments) was supported in the first reading...
Rada introduces justice-related amendments to Constitution
Ukraine`s Verkhovna Rada on Thursday adopted the law on amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine (in part of justice), according to an UaPosition correspondent.Relevant law No. 3524 was supported by 335 MPs out of 391 registered in the session hall.In particular, 138 MPs from the Bloc of Petro Poroshenko faction backed this law. It was also...
Ukraine counts savings due to ProZorro e-procurement system
Ukrainian Minister of Economic Development and Trade Stepan Kubiv says the state has saved about UAH 1.5 billion during 14 months since the introduction of the ProZorro e-procurement system.”We have managed to save about UAH 1.5 billion during 14 months since the introduction of the ProZorro e-procurement system. More than 100,000 tenders have...
Savchenko comments on her possible participation in Minsk talks
MP from the Batkivschyna Party Nadia Savchenko has commented on media reports that she may go to Minsk to participate in talks on prisoner swaps, according to the Ukrainian newspaper Den (Day).”There have been some reports that I will go to Minsk. As far as I know, the Minsk agreements belong to the authority of the state apparatus of the leaders...
German MPs recognize Armenian `genocide` amid Turkish fury – BBC
The German parliament has approved a resolution declaring that the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks during World War One was a ”genocide,” according to the BBC.Turkey is bitterly opposed to the Bundestag (lower house) resolution, and has warned that it could hurt ties, the BBC reports.Armenians say up to 1.5 million of their people died...
Rada chairman suggests public access to parliament
Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine`s parliament, Andriy Parubiy suggests that citizens be allowed as part of ongoing reform of the Rada to attend parliament meetings, according to the Novoe Vremia weekly.”I will suggest that everyone could have access to the Ukrainian parliament the same way it is common practice in many European countries,”...
Turchynov mocks Putin`s National Guards
Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov has called the National Guards of the Russian Federation a parody, which was created to destroy freedom and democracy, according to an UaPosition correspondent.”The Guard means the best, and the Ukrainian National Guardsmen carry their flag with dignity,”...
Russia partially relaxes food embargo
The Russian government has decided to relax the food embargo introduced against Western countries and allow the import of beef and poultry, fresh and dried vegetables used for baby food production, according to the BBC Russian news service.”The Russian Ministry of Agriculture should confirm the targeted use of products that are imported,...
Turchynov unveils losses of National Guard in Donbas war
Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov says that 177 soldiers of the National Guard of Ukraine have been killed and 737 have been wounded during the Anti-Terrorist Operation in Donbas, according to an UaPosition correspondent.”It is the guardsmen who first met the enemy and stopped its...
Ukraine to pay UAH 29 mln from budget to victims of Maidan events
Ukraine`s government has decided to allocate UAH 29 million for support of victims and families of those who were killed during the Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine in 2013-2014, according to an UaPosition correspondent.The funds will be taken from the reserve fund of the national budget. It is planned to pay UAH 13.8 million in financial aid to...