• Rocket powered by Ukrainian engine successfully puts Turkish satellites into orbit

    The press service of the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers reported that the European Vega rocket with a Ukrainian engine was successfully launched.

    “On December 5, 2016, at 3:51 p.m. Kyiv time, the Vega launcher for light loads, saddled with the Göktürk-1 surveillance satellite of the Turkish Ministry of Defense was successfully launched from Kourou spaceport in French Guiana. The Vega was jointly developed by the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency,” the report stated.

    The …

  • Ukrainian MP has recordings of alleged corruption by Poroshenko

    People’s Deputy Oleksandr Onyshchenko has an extensive package of damaging information on Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. This was reported by the chief editor of Zerkalo Nedeli, Yulia Mostova in her article "Dive all together!"

    Earlier it was reported that Onyshchenko handed over to the USA “dirt” on Poroshenko. According to the People’s Deputy, he has been recording all his conversations with the President on his wrist watch voice recorder. Before then, the Security Service of Ukraine …

  • The Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations said Russia likes to oppose everyone

    The Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations, Volodymyr Yelchenko, stated in an interview with Radio Svoboda that Russia is satisfied with the role of being “against all” in international relations. According to him, he didn't succeed in establishing working relations with Russia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin.

    Commenting on his attempts to establish working relations with Churkin, Yelchenko noted that these attempts failed due to the …

  • Russia says it will stop broadcasting Ukrainian media in the Crimea

    According to Russia's RIA Novosti news service, authorities of the annexed Crimea stated that broadcasting of Ukrainian media to the territory of the peninsula will be stopped as it does not comply with Russian legislation. The statement was made by the Minister of Information of the Crimea, Dmitry Polonsky.

    According to him, broadcasting to the Crimea will not be allowed because of "the lack of legal grounds".

    "We have enough technical means to stop the broadcasts that are prohibited by …

  • Turkey to help Ukraine set up radio and TV broadcasting in the Crimea

    Turkey approved the frequencies for the Ukrainian TV and radio broadcasts which will be carried out from Henichesk district of Kherson region to the Crimea via a new telecommunication tower located near the Chonhar checkpoint at the administrative border of the Crimea, as reported by Ukrinform news agency.

    "I want to say that Turkey is among the countries that have coordinated the approval of these frequencies and that it approved them too. They became our partner with regards to this issue," …