Contents tagged with Ukraine
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Number of Lithuanian work permits issued to Ukrainians doubled in 2017
In 2017, Lithuania issued 34,500 employment visas or residence permits. About 20 thousand of them were received by residents of Ukraine, Delfi.lt news agency writes, referring to the data of the Migration Department.
In 2016, 18,000 people came to work to Lithuania, of whom about 10,000 were Ukrainians.
According to experts, Ukrainians often get jobs as long-distance truck drivers, concrete workers, bricklayers, finishing specialists, ship's hull assemblers and welders. Business owners claim …
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51 people convicted in 2017 for undermining Ukraine's security
51 suspects were charged and convicted of having committed crimes against the foundations of Ukraine's national security in the first half of 2017. The relevant information was reported to UNN news agency by the State Judicial Administration of Ukraine. Another three suspects were acquitted of the same charges.
In the first half of 2017, there were 264 cases under these articles against 435 suspects in Ukrainian courts. 71 cases were examined in the first half of the year.
The most recent …
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Ukrainian President terminated citizenship of 5,200 people over one year
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko terminated the citizenship of 5,200 people in 2017, according to data from the Presidential Administration.
Decrees on termination of citizenship were issued on the grounds of the withdrawal from citizenship for 4,296 persons, loss of citizenship for 47 persons, and international treaties for 825 persons.
The most well-known examples are the terminations of the citizenships of Mikheil Saakashvili and MP Andrey Artemenko. At the same time, Poroshenko did …
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Leonid Kravchuk: Crimea will return when Russia is not able to control it
In the broadcast of a joint project by Radio Liberty and TV channel 112 Ukraine on January 7, former Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk said that he believes that “Crimea will return when Russia is not able to control it”.
“I think that Crimea will be returned [to Ukraine] when Russia is not able to control Crimea,” the former president observed.
He noted that Ukraine has spent billions of dollars developing the peninsula.
“Since 1954, Ukraine has invested more than a hundred billion …
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Kremlin: Ukraine must be ready to surrender its eastern regions
Chairman of the Russian State Duma Committee for Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Leonid Kalashnikov, while commenting on Ukraine’s intention to recognize the USSR as an occupier, said that Ukraine must be ready to give up Kharkiv, Dnipro, Donbas and other territories handed over to it in Soviet times, reports RIA Novosti.
According to the Russian deputy, half what today comprises Ukraine would have to be returned to Russia.
“If you take this seriously, half of what comprises …
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Crimean activists to start legal campaign to protect Khan’s Palace in Bakhchysarai
Crimean legal experts and attorneys intend to start a legal campaign to protect the Khan’s Palace in Bakhchysarai, attorney Emil Kurbedinov wrote on his Facebook page.
“Our team of attorneys and legal experts intends to start a legal campaign to protect the Khan’s Palace in Bakhchysarai from baseless assaults on the historical population of Crimean Tatars, a cultural heritage site! In general, I can say that primarily we intend to acquire official responses from the Russian Federation on the …
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Ukrainian historian: Ukraine was occupied during Soviet period
In a broadcast of Channel 5, Director of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance Volodymyr Viatrovych called the period during which Ukraine was part of the USSR “the Bolshevik occupation”.
“It was the Soviet occupation, the establishing of first a Bolshevik, then a communist occupation regime,” he said. Viatrovych also referred to a need for “legislative acts which would clearly document the current Ukraine’s succession of the Ukrainian People’s Republic”.
“One of these elements …
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Poroshenko: Ukrainian membership in EU is not ‘a prospect for 2018’
While acknowledging Ukraine’s memberships in the European Union and the NATO remain the country’s strategic priorities, these are “prospects obviously not to be fulfilled in 2018,” the President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, wrote in an article for the publications Novoye Vremya and The Economist Mir.
In the op-ed published under the title The Word and Development the President of Ukraine outlined his vision of the “only possible path of development for a successful country.”
“Membership in …
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Kyiv to cover debt incurred by the companies of Ukrainian oligarch Akhmetov
The National Commission for State Regulation for Energy and Public Utilities (NKREKP) will meet on January 9 to decide on the allocation of 2 billion UAH or $70.8 million among the power generating companies of thermal power plants (TPPs), the NKREKP website reports.
A quarter of the amount will be given to Centrenergo PJSC (294 million UAH or $10.42 million USD) and Donbasenergo PJSC (225.79 million UAH or $7.99 million USD).
The lion’s share of the money, 1.48 billion UAH ($52.39 million …
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Ukrainian President promises to establish anti-corruption court in 2018
In an article for publications Novoye Vremya and The Economist Mir, published on Saturday, President Petro Poroshenko discussed the need for his more active participation in the protection of the country's anti-corruption infrastructure and the inadmissibility of any pressure on the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU).
"The events at the end of 2017 showed that the anti-corruption infrastructure requires more active protection by the President, I especially emphasize the need to guarantee …