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      Ukraine`s defense minister starts first visit to Sweden
      Oct06

      Ukraine`s defense minister starts first visit to Sweden

      Ukrainian Defense Minister, General of the Army of Ukraine Stepan Poltorak has left for Sweden on his first visit to that country since Ukraine`s independence, according to the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. During his visit to Stockholm General Poltorak will hold bilateral meetings with Minister of Defense of Sweden Peter Hultqvist and Chief of...

      Germany`s ex-Chancellor Schroeder gets top position at Gazprom subsidiary
      Oct05

      Germany`s ex-Chancellor Schroeder gets top position at Gazprom subsidiary

      Ex-Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder now chairs the Board of the new company Nord Stream 2, which is part of the Russian energy giant Gazprom, according to Tagesspiel. Former Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder took over the chairmanship of the Board of the energy company Nord Stream 2, the one that works to expand the gas pipeline from Russia to Germany....

      Serious escalation in Eastern Ukraine: heavy shelling in Luhansk sector
      Oct05

      Serious escalation in Eastern Ukraine: heavy shelling in Luhansk sector

      Combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 68 times in the past 24 hours, including 36 barrages in the Luhansk sector, 19 in the Mariupol sector, and 13 in the Donetsk sector, according to the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) headquarters. In the Luhansk sector, the enemy resorted to...

      Maidan killings probe: More Berkut police troops detained as new evidence unearthed
      Oct04

      Maidan killings probe: More Berkut police troops detained as new evidence unearthed

      The law enforcers detained part of the former troops of the Berkut police special forces after the exposing testimony of one of their ex-colleagues, who is already a suspect in the case, according to Oleksandr Kovalchuk of the Prosecutor General`s Office of Ukraine, 112 Ukraine TV channel reports. Commenting on the fact that one of the former...

      IMF want to launch land market in Ukraine waiting for significant economic gains
      Oct04

      IMF want to launch land market in Ukraine waiting for significant economic gains

      The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says that the launch of the land market in Ukraine can generate significant economic gains, according to the Fund`s country report released upon completion of the second review under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF). ”While Ukraine has a vast area of arable land, use of this land is currently limited by...

      Ukraine sees 32 attacks in Donbas in last day
      Oct04

      Ukraine sees 32 attacks in Donbas in last day

      Combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 32 times in the past 24 hours, including 16 times in the Mariupol sector, 10 times in the Donetsk sector and six times in the Luhansk sector, according to the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) headquarters. In the Luhansk sector, the enemy...

      Ukraine may receive $5.4 bln from IMF next year
      Oct04

      Ukraine may receive $5.4 bln from IMF next year

      Ukraine may obtain from its key creditor, the International Monetary Fund, another loan tranche within the Extended Fund Facility in the amount of $1.3 billion, and another four tranches totaling some $5.4 billion in 2017, according to the IMF report. The third review of the cooperation program is scheduled for November 2016. That is when the...

      BBC report exposes ”slave labor” in prisons across occupied Donbas
      Oct04

      BBC report exposes ”slave labor” in prisons across occupied Donbas

      Human rights activists in eastern Ukraine say they have evidence that slave labor camps reminiscent of Soviet gulags are operating in rebel-controlled areas, according to the BBC. A newly published report alleges that 5,000 people in the self-declared Luhansk People`s Republic are held in solitary confinement, beaten, starved or tortured if they...

      Naftogaz seeks to recover $28.3 bln from Gazprom in Stockholm arbitration
      Oct03

      Naftogaz seeks to recover $28.3 bln from Gazprom in Stockholm arbitration

      The amount of the claims filed by national joint stock company Naftogaz of Ukraine against Russian gas monopoly Gazprom under a lawsuit lodged with the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce was US$28.3 billion as of July 31, 2016, according to the Ukrainian company`s annual report for 2015 published on its website. Naftogaz...

      Ukraine`s diplomat explains how to bypass Russia`s veto in creating MH17 tribunal
      Oct03

      Ukraine`s diplomat explains how to bypass Russia`s veto in creating MH17 tribunal

      Ukrainian diplomat Volodymyr Vasylenko, who worked as Ukraine`s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, a judge for the International Criminal Court in 2001-2005 and was Ukraine`s envoy to the UN Human Rights Council in 2006-2010, says that Ukraine should insist on the creation of an international tribunal on the downing of flight MH17 to...