Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko claimed in a recent interview with the German magazine Focus that oligarchs in Ukraine cannot count on privileges, Ukrinform reports. Magazine staff accompanied Poroshenko on his tour of Ukraine, releasing the interview with the President in an edition released May 5.

When asked how difficult it is to complicate the lives of Ukraine’s powerful oligarchic groups while being an oligarch himself, Poroshenko stated that there is “no impediment.”

 “Over the …

The U.S. imposed restrictions on the use of Javelin anti-tank missile systems in the Donbas, which Washington supplied to Ukraine, as stated by Georgiy Tuka, the deputy minister for the temporarily occupied territories and internally displaced persons of Ukraine, on the Pryamoy channel.

According to him, one of the terms of the contract to supply the missile systems was “not to use these complexes directly on the contact line.”

At the same time, Tuka stressed that the ban can be canceled “at …

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu promised that Ankara would take countermeasures against the United States in the event that Washington enacts sanctions against it for the purchase of Russian S-400 missile systems.

This week, the minister intends to visit Washington, where he will discuss U.S. threats to block the delivery of F-35 fighters if Turkey acquires the Russian anti-aircraft missile systems.

“We need a way to protect our airspace - urgently. If you are not going to sell them …

The Iraqi Air Force carried out a series of strikes on the positions of ISIS in Syria, reported the press service of the Prime Minister of Iraq, Haider al-Abadi , the commander of the Armed Forces of the Republic.The statement notes that the purpose of the raid was the command center of the terrorists in the settlement of Dashisha (Khaseke province) in the northeast of Syria. The head of the Iraqi government ordered to conduct the operation. 

On April 19, al-Abadi also ordered the Iraqi F-16 …

On Monday, the Russian government with Dmitry Medvedev as its head will resign. It is expected that a new head of the Cabinet Council will be appointed the next day.

Citing a source in the State duma, Interfax reported that Vladimir Putin will likely name the candidate for the post of prime minister after the inauguration on May 7. This appointment will be discussed at a meeting of the State Duma on May 8. The United Russia party noted that the State Duma “will undoubtedly support the choice …

An employee of the Mayor’s Office of Vilnius who is responsible for public safety has been prosecuted for publicly insulting Russians. As reported by Delfi news agency, the Prosecutor’s Office filed charges against Darius Kiela and has already transferred the case to the Vilnius local court.

Kiela is accused of commenting negatively on articles about the military conflict in Ukraine and Russian military exercises in the Kaliningrad region. In February 2017, Kiela wrote that Russia is an enemy …

Ukrainian telecommunication provider and TV cable operator Volia is negotiating its sale for $112 million. A potential buyer is a Mexican businessman Carlos Slim, as reported by LIGA.net citing the sources in the telecom market.

Carlos Slim is an owner of America Movil. In 2014 he purchased shares of the Austria Telekom group of companies. Its assets include a number of European operators, including Velcom in Belarus. The latter, according to the news website, started conducting due diligence …

On April 26, the Office of the US Trade Representative suspended the operation of the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) for a portion of Ukrainian goods, as reported on Saturday by the Press Office of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine.

The GSP allows for duty-free importation of over 3,500 types of goods from Ukraine into the United States.

155 types of goods fall under the restrictions, including some food products, light and woodworking industry, engineering, …