Section: Main news
Updated Ukrainian sanctions against Russia take effect as of Oct 31
Presidential order No. 467/2016, which enacts a resolution by the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) on the prolongation of earlier introduced anti-Russian sanctions for another 12 months and the introduction of additional sanctions against new companies and individuals, became effective on October 31. The presidential order was signed...
Georgians vote in second-round parliamentary elections
Georgians have gone to the polls on October 30 for a second round of parliamentary elections to decide the outcome of one-third of the seats in the 150-seat legislature, according to Radio Liberty. The ruling Georgian Dream party took 67 of the parliament`s seats in voting three weeks ago, but no candidate received a majority of first-round votes...
Pro-EU candidate pushes Moldova into runoff vote
Moscow-friendly Socialist Igor Dodon on Sunday garnered nearly 49% of the vote in Moldova`s first direct presidential election in decades, according to official preliminary results, Deutsche Welle reported. Voter turnout was 48.92%, reported the electoral commission after polling booths closed at 21:00 (19:00 UTC), DW wrote. ”This day is...
Oil falls as non-OPEC yet to pledge concrete output steps
Oil prices extended declines on Monday after non-OPEC producers made no specific commitment to join OPEC in limiting oil output levels to prop up prices, suggesting they wanted the oil producing group to solve its differences first, according to Reuters. Officials and experts from OPEC countries and non-OPEC nations including Azerbaijan, Brazil,...
International monitor quietly drops drone surveillance of Ukraine war
The European security organization tasked with monitoring deadly violence between government forces and Russian-separatists forces in eastern Ukraine has lost its most effective surveillance tool in the conflict: long-range unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, according to the Foreign Policy (FP) website. ”The long-range drone program was crucial...
Weekly Report: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine 24.10.– 30.10.2016
Ron Paul Institute (USA) : Selling ‘Regime Change’ Wars to the Masses – 29 October 2016, 19:36 Geopolitical Futures (USA) : Watch List Findings: Oct. 29, 2016 – 29 October 2016, 12:51 Victims of Communism (USA) : October 28th, 2016 – 29 October 2016, 00:21 Kleptocracy Initiative (USA) : Kleptocracy Weekly: October 22-28,...
Russia sends submarines to Syria
Three attack submarines armed with state-of-the-art cruise missiles have joined a Russian naval taskforce heading towards Syria, raising fears that President Putin is set to order a final devastating attack on Aleppo, according to The Sunday Times. The Royal Navy has been tracking two nuclear-powered Akula-class boats and a diesel-powered...
E-declaration in Ukraine: Head of State Tax Service declared $1,16M & EUR 450,000 in cash, Finance Minister – $155,000 in cash
Ukraine`s Finance Minister Oleksandr Danyliuk has filled the e-declaration of assets, which is now available on the website of the Unified State Registry of e-declarations. According to the document filled, Danyliuk owns a land plot of 984 square meters and a 290 square meter house in the village of Vyshenky near Kyiv. However, the property is...
Ukraine`s Defense Ministry: Four wounded in action in Donbas in past day
Ukraine`s Defense Ministry has reported that four Ukrainian soldiers were wounded in action in Donbas in the past day. ”No Ukrainian soldiers were killed but four members of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were wounded in hostilities in the past day,” Defense Ministry speaker for Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) issues Oleksandr Motuzianyk said at a...
Ukraine reports 53 Russian attacks on its troops in Donbas in past day
The Russian occupation forces attacked Ukrainian positions in Donbas, eastern Ukraine, 53 times in the past 24 hours, according to the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation headquarters. View map in full size Twenty eight attacks were reported in the Mariupol sector alone. Ukrainian troops stationed in the villages of Shyrokyne,...