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Norway to allocate 4 million euros for humanitarian aid to Ukraine
Norway will allocate about 40 million kroner (more than 4 million euros) for humanitarian aid to Ukraine. This was reported on the 8th of February by the press service of Norway’s government.
“The humanitarian situation in some regions of Ukraine is very serious. Five million people need help, including 1.5 million internal migrants. Children and the elderly are particularly vulnerable to the cold weather of winter,” said the State Secretary at the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, …
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FBI to assist Ukraine’s Anti-Corruption Bureau
In February, the representatives of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will visit Kiev, where they will assist the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU), the head of NABU, Artem Sytnik, told Hromadske.
He said that the Anti-Corruption Bureau expects the active assistance from the FBI representatives, because they have the ability to track flow of currency worldwide.
"In February, we expect that there will be a permanent representative of the FBI in the NABU …
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Jaresko: Ukraine does not have enough money to hold early parliamentary elections
Ukraine cannot afford to hold early parliamentary elections in 2016, according to the country’s Minister of Finance, Natalie Jaresko. She discussed this on the 8th of February on the Svoboda Slova program on the ICTV channel. This was reported by Glavnoe citing Zerkalo Nedeli.
“There is no money in the Ukrainian budget for holding early elections in 2016. If we do hold elections, we will have to attract funds from somewhere or something will have to be underfunded,” Jaresko continued.
She …
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Canal + will not engage in public discussion of anti-Ukraine documentary
The management of the private French channel, Canal +, refuses to engage in any public discussion regarding the Paul Moreira propaganda film, “Ukraine, Masks of the Revolution.”
"The management has no intention of engaging in an open dialogue concerning discussion of the scandalous and misleading anti-Ukrainian film,” representatives stated.
The original broadcast occurred on the 1st of February, with the channel planning to repeat it the next day.
The film documents the events which …
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Abromavičius: The coming weeks are critical for the Ukrainian government
According to Aivaras Abromavičius, if the Ukrainian government does not take action, then Ukraine will have "not just frozen military conflict in the Donbas, but also frozen economic reforms important for all of Ukraine."
Abromavičius, who resigned from the post of Minister of Economic Development, said that the Ukrainian government in the coming weeks should make a number of important and difficult decisions necessary for the further development of the country.
"I was always saying that we …