The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine should extend the validity of the law “On the special order of local self-government in the separate regions of the Donetsk and Luhansk provinces,” which was adopted in 2014.

Martin Sajdik, Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) on the situation in the Donbas, has sent an official request to this effect to the leaders of the Verkhovna  Rada, announced Iryna Herashchenko, First Deputy Speaker of …

The Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States arrested four Russian citizens, informed the Russian Consulate General in New York on August 6.

According to the consulate information published on social networks, detained Russians are suspected of money laundering and conspiracy to commit fraud.

Two of the four detainees are in Los Angeles, one in New York, and the location of the fourth detainee is currently undetermined. The Russian consulate requested the FBI to grant them access …

The EU countries should join the U.S. and resume the sanctions regime against Iran, said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He warmly approved the decision of the U.S. President Donald Trump, who on Monday signed the decree to renew economic sanctions.

"I congratulate President of the United States Donald Trump on an important decision to impose sanctions against Iran. I call on the European countries that are talking about stopping Iran, to join this decision, “Netanyahu wrote on …

Ukrainians working in Poland wired home 2.9 billion zlotys, the equivalent of over 800 million US dollars in the first quarter of 2018. This represents 86% of all money transfers of foreigners working in the neighboring country, Polish Radio reports.

According to the Polish Central Bank, foreigners transferred a total of 3.4 billion zlotys from Poland or over $920 million, which is 700 million zlotys more than in 2017. Last year Ukrainians sent 2.4 billion zlotys from Poland to Ukraine.

At …

Ukraine loses over 4 billion euro annually due to corruption. "It is more than one tenth of all revenue of the budget and double the sum that Ukraine expects to receive in 2018 from the International Monetary Fund, the European Union and the World Bank,” according to Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper’s investigation that it published on Monday, August 6.

Based on customs and transport consignment notes, Süddeutsche Zeitung described the fraud schemes used to avoid duties. Goods brought into the …

Since the beginning of the year, 740 foreigners have been banned entry to Ukraine for 3 years because of unauthorized visits to the territories of Donbas and Crimea which are not under Kyiv’s control, reported the State Border Guard Service (SBS) of Ukraine.

According to the SBS, evidence of the unauthorized visits to the annexed territories is often established in regards to foreigners or stateless persons as well as citizens of Ukraine.

Since the beginning of the year, the border guards …

Russian Federation authorities have lost the death certificate of journalist Orkhan Dzhemal, who was killed while shooting a documentary on Russian mercenaries from the private military company Wagner Group in Africa, write on Facebook his colleague, journalist Maksim Shevchenko.

“The vindictiveness of stupid authorities who did not know what to do with Orkhan when he was alive knows no limits. It is impossible to believe but they told relatives that they “have lost” Orkhan Dzhemal’s death …

Foreign investors continue to sell off their shares in Russian companies in response to increased tension in Russia’s relations with the West and growing macroeconomic risks, finanz.ru reports.

During the week ending August 1, non-residents withdrew another $10 million from the Russian stock market, after pulling out $110 million the week before.

Funds focusing exclusively on Russia sold $40 million worth of securities in the last week and $130 million in the last two, according to a review …