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Vice Governor of Odesa Borovik quits civil service
The Acting Deputy Chairman of the Odesa Regional State Administration and Mikheil Saakashvili`s ally Oleksandr Borovik declared he decided to leave the civil service.He notes that he resigns in connection with the entry into force of a new edition of the law on civil service, according to his posting on Facebook.Borovik regrets that the Ukrainian...
New EUCOM commander says no changes in Russia`s behavior in Donbas expected
The new chief of U.S. European Command and Supreme Allied Commander Europe, U.S. Army Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti says he does not expect changes in Russia`s behavior in the east of Ukraine and believes that the Kremlin will remain active in the region, according to an UaPosition correspondent reporting from a change of command ceremony in Mons,...
Car racer killed in traffic accident in Kyiv
A horrific road accident in the early hours of Wednesday in Kyiv took the life of a 32-year-old car racer and his 20-year-old passenger, according to Oksana Blischik, the spokesperson of Kyiv Police.”The capital`s police are establishing the circumstances of a fatal accident in Holosiyivsky district of Kyiv. A traffic accident which killed two...
SBU cuts sophisticated comm channel between ”DPR-LPR” terrorists, their Russian curators
The SBU Security Service of Ukraine has revealed and halted the uncontrolled international communication channel used by the terrorists in Donbas and blocked the illegal operation of telecom hardware and software station located in Dnipropetrovsk.The perpetrator used IP telephony to receive international phone traffic coming from Russia,...
Russia to set up three divisions to counter NATO — Defense chief
Two of the new divisions will be set up in the Western Military District while another one will be established in the Southern Military District to counter NATO military buildup near Russia`s borders, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said on Wednesday, according to TASS.”The Defense Ministry is taking a number of measures to counteract the buildup...
Deficit of Ukraine`s foreign trade in goods grows by 40.7% in Jan-March
The deficit of Ukraine`s foreign trade in goods January through March 2016 grew by 40.7% year-over-year, to $1.6 billion, according to the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU).Exports in the first three months of 2016 amounted to $7.05 billion, which was 19.9% down year-over-year, while imports shrank by 13.1%, to $8.614 billion, the NBU said.At the...
One dead after Ukraine coal mine blast
One Ukrainian coal miner was killed and at least nine others were missing, feared dead after a methane gas explosion at a mine. ||| Kiev – One Ukrainian coal miner was killed and at least nine others were missing, feared dead on Wednesday after a methane gas explosion at a mine in the war-scarred separatist east.The chief health official of...
Poroshenko signs law extending indefinitely moratorium on `Russian debt` repayment
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has signed a law adopted by the Ukrainian parliament ”On peculiarities of the transactions with the public debt, state-guaranteed debt, and local debt,” which allows to extend for an indefinite period the moratorium on repayment of the so-called `Russian debt.`The document was sent back to the parliament with...
Entire city evacuated amid massive Canada wildfire
Authorities ordered the mandatory evacuation of the entire Canadian city of Fort McMurray in northern Alberta amid a raging wildfire, according to CNN.Alberta officials issued an expanded order Tuesday, according to the report.Nearly 53,000 people had moved to safer ground, authorities said.Extremely high temperatures and low humidity fueled the...
The Long Arm of Russian “Soft” Power
Anxious about losing ground to Western influence in the post-Soviet space and the ousting of pro-Russia elites by popular electoral uprisings in the early 2000s, the Kremlin has developed a range of proxy groups in support of its foreign policy. This network of pro-Kremlin groups promotes the Russian World (Russkiy Mir), a flexible tool that...