Section: Main news
Cabinet intends to share ProZorro electronic public procurement system with another country
The Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine intends to introduce ProZorro electronic public procurement system in another country ensuring that Ukrainian businesses are able to participate in tenders called for by foreign governments, according to Director of Public Procurement Regulation Department of the Ukrainian Economy Ministry...
Polish investors eyeing to restore property in western Ukraine
Chervonohorod castle and St. Stanislaw church may soon be one of Ukraine`s top tourist destinations. That is if the reports of local authorities working on paperwork to find its rightful owners turn out to be true, according to Ukraine Today.If legal successors are found they will have the right to own the property. However, according to several...
European Council to consider Ukraine`s visa-free issue today
The Visa Working Party of the European Council today will consider the European Commission`s visa liberalization proposal for Ukraine.”Indeed, there will be a meeting of the Visa Working Party. This is a preparatory meeting at expert level. After this the issue is expected to be discussed at the level of the Committee of Permanent Representatives...
OSCE SMM comments on accusations of helping parties to Donbas conflict
OSCE`s Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine emphasizes it has never provided any intelligence or other assistance to the Ukrainian Army in the conflict in eastern Ukraine.”In response to recent allegations that the OSCE SMM supplies ammunition to the Ukrainian Armed Forces: the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission operates under the principle of...
Obama to visit Hiroshima – first U.S. president to do so since 1945 nuclear attack
Two months after Barack Obama became the first sitting U.S. president in a century to visit Cuba, the White House has announced that he will visit Hiroshima, the first American leader to do so since the Japanese city was turned to rubble in 1945 by a US nuclear bomb, according to The Independent.Obama and Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will make...
Germany to increase troops: DW
Germany plans to boost the number of its soldiers for the first time since the end of the Cold War. After years of reductions, Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen said it was time to abandon downsizing in order to meet Germany`s growing commitments, according to Deutsche Welle.New challenges in Eastern Europe, enhancing deterrence vis-a-vis...
Bomb attack on police vehicle in Turkey`s Diyarbakir kills three: Reuters
A car bomb killed three people and wounded 45 when it struck a police vehicle on Tuesday in Diyarbakir, the main city in southeastern Turkey where security forces are trying to crush a Kurdish militant insurgency, the governor`s office said, according to Reuters.Explosives in the vehicle were detonated from a distance as an armored police van...
Very realistic terror training exercise staged in Manchester
A mock terrorist attack has been carried out at one of the UK`s busiest shopping centers, in a marauding assault similar to the Paris and Brussels atrocities, according to The Guardian.More than 800 volunteers took part in the staged attack at the Trafford Centre in Manchester on Monday night, The Guardian reported.As part of the drill a fake...
Groysman announces changes at customs operations, hints at reshuffles
Ukraine`s Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman intends to proceed with the inspection of the customs offices across Ukraine, as well as analyze HR moves in customs` top management made before May 1, he said during today`s meeting with the head of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine Roman Nasirov and Zakarpattia Governor Hennadiy Moskal, according to...
Ukraine, Canada may complete talks on free trade area in summer – Canada Ambassador
Ukraine and Canada expect to complete all the negotiation procedures under the Agreement on free trade area between the two countries as early as this summer, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Canada in Ukraine Roman Vashchuk told reporters at a Kyiv briefing.The Ambassador said he hopes that the two governments will be able to...