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Saakashvili loses court case on his refugee status in Ukraine
The Kyiv District Administrative Court recognized the refusal of the State Migration Service to grant refugee status or political refugee status to the former president of Georgia and leader of the Rukh Novykh Syl party, Mikheil Saakashvili.
The verdict was announced by Judge Tatyana Skochok on Wednesday. She rejected Saakashvili's suit against the Migration Service.
The defense of the former president of Georgia said that they will appeal this decision.
Earlier Saakashvili stated that the …
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Kolomoyskyi’s claims against Ukraine in the Ukrnafta case reach $5.4 billion
The claims of Ukrnafta's minority shareholders controlled by Ihor Kolomoyskyi against Ukraine increased to $5.4 billion, according to Interfax-Ukraine with reference to the data of the Ministry of Justice published in Prozorro.
In September 2017, in the prospectus of Eurobonds of Ukraine, it was stated that claims of minority shareholders in accordance with the suit filed with the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce against Ukraine amounted to $4.7 billion. The …
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Klimkin insists that US weapons are needed only for the defense of Ukraine
At a joint press conference with German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel on January 3, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said that the lethal weapons that the US will provide to Ukraine will be used only when provoked by Russia and the separatists, Interfax-Ukraine reports.
Klimkin stressed that the weapons will not be used to contribute to the escalation of the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
"We are talking about defense weapons. These weapons can and will be used in the event of …
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US ambassador: Those who fight corruption are heroes, but the adherents of old Ukraine have gone to war with them
US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch wrote an article for Novoye Vremya advocating the creation of an Anti-Corruption Court and the reformation of the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP).
“Four years after Maidan, the question is haunting: isn’t the urge to bring Ukraine into the future fading? Political attacks on the NABU (National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine) and SAP (Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine) hinder their ability to take down …
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Ukrainian official: there are no prospects for peacekeeping mission in Donbas
Ukraine’s representative in a subgroup of the Trilateral Contact Group, the former Prime Minister, former Minister of Defense, and former Chairperson of the National Security and Defense Council, Yevhen Marchuk, does not see the possibility a United Nations peacekeeping mission being deployed to the Donbas, as he discussed on the Fifth channel on Tuesday, January 2.
“Frankly speaking, I have little hope that the peacekeeping personnel will help resolve anything in the immediate future,” …