Section: Main news
Media update info on subjects of Soloshenko, Afanasyev swap
The Ukrainian political prisoners in Russia, a 25-year-old Hennadiy Afanasyev and a 74-year-old Yuriy Soloshenko were in fact exchanged for Odesa journalists Olena Glishchinskaya and Vitaliy Didenko, who had been accused of separatism.Glischinskaya and Didenko were among the organizers and active participants of the so-called ”People`s Rada of...
Ukraine`s Rada allows companies to restructure debts owed to banks
Ukraine`s Verkhovna Rada has adopted a draft law on financial restructuring in second reading to regulate the procedure for restructuring operating businesses` debts owed to banks, an UaPosition correspondent reported.A total of 229 deputies supported bill No. 3555 with the required minimum of 226 votes.It is also noted that the adoption of the...
Hryvnia strengthens to UAH 24.92 to dollar on interbank market
Hryvnia quotations against the dollar on the interbank currency market on Tuesday strengthened to UAH 24.88/24.92 to the dollar by the middle of trade, a broker at a commercial bank has told an UaPosition correspondent.Hryvnia quotes against the euro have settled at UAH 27.9520/27.9970, while those against the Russian ruble have settled at UAH...
ISIS leader `dead` in U.S.-led air strike – media
An Islamic State-linked news agency has claimed that the terror boss was ”killed by coalition air strikes on Raqqa on the fifth day of Ramadan,” according to Mirror.Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi – the secretive leader of Islamic State – has been killed, according to reports, Mirror.co.uk reports.Born in 1971 in Samarra, Iraq, those who knew al-Baghdadi as...
Sweden wants tangible results from Ukraine`s reforms
Swedish Minister for Enterprise and Innovation Mikael Damberg says that Sweden as the fourth largest donor of Ukraine wants to see tangible results of the reforms being implemented in the country.”We`re proud that we`re the fourth largest bilateral donor in the Ukrainian process of reforms. That is why we insist on concrete results of the...
Investors from Austria, Hungary, India, Japan eyeing Ukraine`s oblenergos
Chief of the State Property Fund (SPF) Ihor Bilous says that investors from Austria, Hungary, India and Japan are interested in buying Ukrainian regional power distribution companies (oblenergos).Namely, these are 70% of shares in Khmelnytskoblenergo, 70% of shares in Mykolaivoblenergo, 65% of shares in Kharkivoblenergo, 50.9% of shares in...
Germany to give EUR 6 mln for Donbas residents` food in 2016-2017
Germanys` federal government will allocate EUR 6 million for the implementation of humanitarian projects in 2016-2017 under a UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) humanitarian program aimed at helping people affected by war in Donbas, according to the press office of Germany`s Embassy in Ukraine.The German government is set to boost support...
Poroshenko tweets Soloshenko, Afanasyev leaving for Ukraine, swap over
Ukrainian citizens Yuriy Soloshenko and Hennadiy Afanasyev, who were illegally imprisoned in Russia, have been swapped and are leaving for Ukraine, according to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko`s tweet.”Yuriy Soloshenko and Hennadiy Afanasyev are on board the Ukrainian plane, departing from Moscow for Ukraine,” Poroshenko wrote on Twitter on...
UEFA sanctions Russia: EUR 150,000 fine, suspended disqualification
The independent UEFA Control, Ethics and Disciplinary Body (CEDB) met in Paris on Tuesday to deal with the disciplinary proceedings opened against the Russian Football Union (RFU) following the incidents that occurred inside the Stade Velodrome in Marseille, at the UEFA EURO 2016 match against England on June 11 (1-1), according to an UEFA...
Ukraine`s customs find excess UAH 1.3 bln for road repairs
Four Ukrainian customs houses involved in a pilot excess revenue distribution project launched in September 2015 have channeled UAH 1.3 billion into infrastructure development in their regions since then, according to the Ukrainian State Fiscal Service (SFS), which incorporates the customs.”During the period from September 2015 through May 2016...