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OSCE urges Ukraine to prolong special status of Donbas
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine should extend the validity of the law “On the special order of local self-government in the separate regions of the Donetsk and Luhansk provinces,” which was adopted in 2014.
Martin Sajdik, Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) on the situation in the Donbas, has sent an official request to this effect to the leaders of the Verkhovna Rada, announced Iryna Herashchenko, First Deputy Speaker of …
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US detains four Russians on suspicion of money laundering
The Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States arrested four Russian citizens, informed the Russian Consulate General in New York on August 6.
According to the consulate information published on social networks, detained Russians are suspected of money laundering and conspiracy to commit fraud.
Two of the four detainees are in Los Angeles, one in New York, and the location of the fourth detainee is currently undetermined. The Russian consulate requested the FBI to grant them access …
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Ukrainian migrant workers sent over $800 million from Poland in the first quarter
Ukrainians working in Poland wired home 2.9 billion zlotys, the equivalent of over 800 million US dollars in the first quarter of 2018. This represents 86% of all money transfers of foreigners working in the neighboring country, Polish Radio reports.
According to the Polish Central Bank, foreigners transferred a total of 3.4 billion zlotys from Poland or over $920 million, which is 700 million zlotys more than in 2017. Last year Ukrainians sent 2.4 billion zlotys from Poland to Ukraine.
At …
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Media: Ukraine loses 4 billion euro annually because of corruption at the customs
Ukraine loses over 4 billion euro annually due to corruption. "It is more than one tenth of all revenue of the budget and double the sum that Ukraine expects to receive in 2018 from the International Monetary Fund, the European Union and the World Bank,” according to Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper’s investigation that it published on Monday, August 6.
Based on customs and transport consignment notes, Süddeutsche Zeitung described the fraud schemes used to avoid duties. Goods brought into the …
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Ukrainian Border Guard Service: 740 foreigners banned entry to Ukraine because of unauthorized visits to Crimea and Donbas
Since the beginning of the year, 740 foreigners have been banned entry to Ukraine for 3 years because of unauthorized visits to the territories of Donbas and Crimea which are not under Kyiv’s control, reported the State Border Guard Service (SBS) of Ukraine.
According to the SBS, evidence of the unauthorized visits to the annexed territories is often established in regards to foreigners or stateless persons as well as citizens of Ukraine.
Since the beginning of the year, the border guards …