• Ukrainian President to meet with Donald Trump at World Economic Forum in Davos

    During a broadcast on the television channel Inter, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said that President Petro Poroshenko will meet with his American counterpart, Donald Trump, at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

     “Certainly, the President will speak with Trump,” said Klimkin, while speaking about the Ukrainian leader’s upcoming meetings at Davos.

    The minister specified the format that the meeting between the two presidents will take.

    “What can be said in a general meeting format? …

  • President of Kazakhstan: Trump proposed to move Donbas negotiations out of Minsk

    The President of the USA, Donald Trump, has proposed to move negotiations on the Donbas from Minsk to another place, as stated by the President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, Interfax reports.

    “We were saying that Minsk-1 came to a standstill, reached a deadlock, and we need Minsk-2. He [Donald Trump] said, ‘Let’s do it elsewhere’ [holding negotiations]. I said, ‘Let’s do it’,” Nazarbayev said at a press conference in New York following the meeting of the UN Security Council.

    “Actually, …

  • Ukrainian Media: President Poroshenko spent $500,000 for 6 day vacation in the Maldives

    The President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, paid a surreal amount from the point of view of an ordinary Ukrainian for his six-day vacation in Maldives, spending  USD 500,000 (approximately UAH 14 million in local currency hryvnia), as journalists of the Skhemy (Schemes) investigative program uncovered during their investigation.

    Journalists learnt from their own sources that the President and his family secretly left for a vacation to Maldives. Using the FlightRadar online tracking resource, …

  • Poroshenko proposes a replacement for the head of the National Bank of Ukraine

    Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko offered the Ukrainian Parliament (Verkhovna Rada) to replace the head of the National Bank of Ulraine(NBU). He suggested dismissing Valeriya Gontaryeva from the post and officially appointing her deputy, Yakiv Smolii to the position.

    On the Rada’s website, a page appeared called "Draft resolution on the dismissal of V.O. Gontaryeva from the position of the Chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine." However, the text of the decree is not yet available. …

  • Draft resolution on withdrawal from the CIS registered in Moldovan Parliament

    Deputies of the Liberal Party of Moldova headed by Mihai Ghimpu registered in the local parliament a draft resolution on the withdrawal of Moldova from the Commonwealth of Independent States or CIS.

    According to the Moldovan news website NewsMaker, the authors explained that this initiative was triggered by repeated violations of the agreement by the Russian Federation. The liberals believe that this was evident in supporting the separatist regime in Transnistria, in military aggression …