Contents tagged with Ukraine
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Lithuanian Foreign Minister: Lithuania stands by Saakashvili in the matter of his Ukrainian citizenship revocation
Lithuania urged Ukrainian authorities to provide the former head of Odessa Regional State Administration and former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili with an opportunity to defend his right to Ukrainian citizenship in court, as stated by Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius, reports Delfi.
"Saakashvili should be given an opportunity to defend his rights at a transparent trial," Linkevičius said.
Linkevičius noted that, from the standpoint of international law, Saakashvili was in …
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President of Ukraine promises to increase salaries of Ukrainian soldiers stationed in Donbas
In his speech during celebrations on the occasion of the Day of the Air Force of Ukraine, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko promised to increase salaries of Ukrainian military personnel located in the conflict zone in the east of the country, reports UNIAN.
Poroshenko said that the decision to increase payments is a testament to the "priority of financing the Armed Forces and ensuring the protection of the sovereignty, territorial integrity and independence of our state." "I have requested …
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Ukraine threatens German band Scooter with criminal punishment over their visit to Crimea
Musicians from the German band, Scooter, face eight years in prison in Ukraine for visiting the Crimea, as reported on Friday by Hromadske, citing the Prosecutor's Office of the Crimea, located in Kyiv.
According to the radio station, the Prosecutor's Office initiated a criminal case under the Article of the Criminal Code of Ukraine "Violation of the order of entry and exit into the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine," which provides for imprisonment for up to eight years. Information …
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India to increase imports of Ukrainian sunflower oil
India is interested in increasing Ukrainian sunflower oil import volume, as reported by the press service of the State Service of Ukraine on Food Safety and Consumer Protection.
This was on the agenda for the August 2nd meeting of the leadership of the the State Service on Food Safety and Consumer Protection with the representatives of the Indian Oilseed and Produce Exporters Association. During the meeting, they discussed the issues of exporting Ukrainian sunflower and sunflower oil to India. …
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Ukraine repaid $450 million to the IMF
Ukraine repaid the International Monetary Fund (IMF) $450 million borrowed under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) program that commenced in 2014.
"We paid today," a representative of the National Bank told Ukrainski Novyny news agency.
Ukraine is supposed to repay a total of 16.836 billion UAH this year (approximately $650 million USD), as stated in the program approved by the Ministry of Finance for managing the national debt for 2017.
In March 2015 the IMF opened a four-year EFF program …
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Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemns Prime Minister of Russia Medvedev's visit to Crimea
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine has expressed strong protest in connection with the latest visit by a Russian delegation to the temporarily Russian-occupied territory of Ukraine. The delegation, headed by the Prime Minister of Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, to the Autonomous Republic of Crimea on August 4, 2017, was not coordinated with Ukraine,” the statement on the website of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry reads.
The statement emphasizes that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs …
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Kyiv: Ukraine saved 2.7 million tons of coal after deliveries from separatist republics were suspended
Ukraine saved 2.7 million tons of A-grade coal as a result of emergency measures taken by the energy sector from February 17 to July 17, as reported by Volodymyr Kistion, the Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine, at a meeting to discuss issues in Ukraine’s unified energy system.
“Today coal reserves in TPP and CHPP warehouses amount to 2,344,000 tons, including 1,477,000 tons of gas type coal and 867,000 tons of anthracite type coal. Preparations for the winter are going according to plan. There has …
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Kyiv considers introducing criminal penalties for illegal border crossing from Russia
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has registered a draft law on amending the Criminal Code of Ukraine regarding responsibility for illegal crossing of the state border (No. 7017). The text of the bill is posted on the parliament's website. Its authors are the leader of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc "Solidarity" faction, Arthur Gerasimov and the Deputy Chairman of the faction, Presidential Representative in the Parliament, Iryna Lutsenko.
The draft law proposes that the Criminal Code of Ukraine be …
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Media: Russia to limit gas transit through Ukrainian territory
Russia is restricting the transit of gas through Ukrainian territory, and will soon exclude its western neighbor from the process of transporting natural gas to western countries, Vedomosti reports.
Vedomosti claims that Gazprom has reduced the flow of gas through Ukrainian territory and has simultaneously increased it in the OPAL pipeline. Recently the European Commission approved the use of 40% of the capacity of the gas pipeline.
According to the opinion of Russian experts, Moscow is …
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Former Ukrainian Ambassador to the United Nations to be questioned in Yanukovych case
State prosecutors have initiated an additional court hearing in the case of former President Viktor Yanukovych, and former permanent representative of Ukraine to the UN Yuri Sergeyev will be questioned, as stated by prosecutor Ruslan Kravchenko during the court session.
According to Kravchenko, the prosecution is requesting to change the order of the examination of evidence in order to question Sergeyev, who witnessed Yanukovych's letter being shown to Vladimir Putin.
The prosecutor noted …