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Poroshenko: Ukrainian membership in EU is not ‘a prospect for 2018’
While acknowledging Ukraine’s memberships in the European Union and the NATO remain the country’s strategic priorities, these are “prospects obviously not to be fulfilled in 2018,” the President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, wrote in an article for the publications Novoye Vremya and The Economist Mir.
In the op-ed published under the title The Word and Development the President of Ukraine outlined his vision of the “only possible path of development for a successful country.”
“Membership in …
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Kyiv to cover debt incurred by the companies of Ukrainian oligarch Akhmetov
The National Commission for State Regulation for Energy and Public Utilities (NKREKP) will meet on January 9 to decide on the allocation of 2 billion UAH or $70.8 million among the power generating companies of thermal power plants (TPPs), the NKREKP website reports.
A quarter of the amount will be given to Centrenergo PJSC (294 million UAH or $10.42 million USD) and Donbasenergo PJSC (225.79 million UAH or $7.99 million USD).
The lion’s share of the money, 1.48 billion UAH ($52.39 million …
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Kyiv: Russian MP Poklonskaya maintains her Ukrainian citizenship
State Duma deputy and former prosecutor of the Crimea, Natalia Poklonskaya, retains Ukrainian citizenship and the migration service has no information indicating that her passport was revoked, as reported by the Verkhovna Rada Deputy Serhiy Leshchenko, on NewsOne TV.
According to Leshchenko, he sent a request regarding the status of Poklonskaya’s citizenship to the State Migration Service of Ukraine. The State Migration Service responded that Poklonskaya was not deprived of citizenship, as …
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Ukrainian President promises to establish anti-corruption court in 2018
In an article for publications Novoye Vremya and The Economist Mir, published on Saturday, President Petro Poroshenko discussed the need for his more active participation in the protection of the country's anti-corruption infrastructure and the inadmissibility of any pressure on the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU).
"The events at the end of 2017 showed that the anti-corruption infrastructure requires more active protection by the President, I especially emphasize the need to guarantee …
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British ambassador does not see possibility for visa liberalization with Ukraine
The United Kingdom does not see an opportunity for visa liberalization with Ukraine in the near future. This issue is complicated by the fact that, previously, a Ukrainian passport was illegally obtained by a citizen of another state: the killer of Chechen volunteer soldiers Adam Osmayev and Amina Okuyeva, who fought on the Ukrainian side in the Donbas during the summer of 2017. This was stated by the British Ambassador to Ukraine Judith Gough in an interview with the Ukrainian publication …