• DART-450 aircraft with Ukrainian engine will be exhibited at the Air Show in Farnborough

    A DART-450 twin-engine aircraft manufactured by Austrian company Diamond with a Ukrainian AI-450S engine has been successfully tested and will be exhibited at the Air Show in Farnborough. The announcement was made by the press-service of public joint-stock company FED (Kharkiv), a participant of the AI-450S engine project reported.

    “The DART-450 aircraft will be exhibited at the International Air Show in Farnborough that will take place in July 2016. The certification procedure will be …

  • Head of Crimea: We need to defend the 'Russian World'

    “The Crimea is at the forefront of the informational, ideological and economic wars started against ‘the Russian world',” the head of Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, said at the forum “Russian World: problems and prospects” held in the Levada Palace in Yalta.

    "We need to mobilize our ideology and spirit. We need to unite around the traditional values, around the program of our national leader, Vladimir Putin,” Aksyonov stated.

    He explained that spirituality and morality are the basis of the “Russian …

  • Mass layoffs expected in Ukraine's Prosecutor General's office

    The newly appointed Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Valentyna Telychenko, who is responsible for the office reform, announced that there will be mass lay-offs of the staff, starting with those that have taken bribes.  

    "We want to have a Prosecutor’s Office of the European standard…Salary is a very important element of the reforms but first of all the Prosecutor’s Offices need to get rid of those who have shamed it in the eyes of society. By that, I mean, non-professionals who are living …

  • Ukrainian police to begin training in Turkey

    On Sunday, the first group of Ukrainian police officers left for training in Turkey, UNIAN reported with reference to the National Police of Ukraine.

    Twenty-two police officers will spend a week in Turkey training with Turkish law enforcement agencies.

    The exercises will focus on tactics during mass events.

    According to one Ukrainian officer, Olesya Emelyanovich, it is very important that Ukrainian police possess such skills.

    Approximately 3,000 Ukrainian police officers will be trained in …

  • Ukraine's General Prosecutor says case against Yanukovych should be brought to an end

    Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yury Lutsenko stated during a meeting with representatives of the U.S. Congress on the 4th of June, that he believes that GPU should bring old cases, especially the case of the former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, to an end, the press service of regulatory agency reports.

    It was stated that Lutsenko fully supports the transfer of all investigative functions of the Prosecutor’s Office to the newly-established National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the State …