• Latvia expressed support for Ukrainian law on education

    The Minister of Education and Science of Latvia, Kārlis Šadurskis, said Ukraine’s decision regarding the language issue in the context of the new law on education is understandable, according to the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.

    "The steps taken by Ukraine to ensure students learn the State language as part of their educational system are understandable," Šadurskis said in Riga during a meeting with the Ukrainian Foreign Minister, Pavlo Klimkin.

    The Latvian …

  • US allocates more than $5 million to Ukraine for cyber security

    The United States will allocate more than $5 million to Ukraine to increase Kyiv's ability to prevent cyber-attacks. This was announced in a joint statement on the first bilateral dialogue between the US and Ukraine on cyber security, UNIAN news agency reports.

    "In support of the US commitment to support cyber security in Ukraine, U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch said that the United States would allocate over $5 million as part of a new assistance program on cyber security, aimed at …

  • IMF calls on Ukraine to carry out pension reform

    The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said that the decisive condition for the revision of the cooperation program with Ukraine is the pension reform implementation. It was stated by IMF official representative William Murray during a briefing in Washington, Interfax-Ukraine reports.

    "We call on the authorities and parliament to ensure that the bill on increasing pensions reaches the reform goals that have been developed by the IMF and the World Bank. We are ready for further cooperation with …

  • Media: Turchynov demands resignation of Muzhenko

    After the incident at the artillery depots in Kalynivka, NSDC (National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine) Secretary Oleksandr Turchynov demanded the resignation of the Chief of the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Viktor Muzhenko, as reported by Interfax-Ukraine citing its sources.

    The demand for Muzhenko’s resignation made by the Secretary of the National Security Council resulted in an emergency meeting of the Military Cabinet on September 27th.

    According to Interfax- …

  • Volker: incident with the ammunition depo in Kalynivka will not impact the US decision to provide lethal weapons to Ukraine

    Special representative of the US State Department Kurt Volker stated that Washington's decision to provide lethal weapons to Ukraine will not depend on the explosions at the ammunition depot in Kalynivka, the Voice of America reports.

    On September 26, several explosions began at the arsenal of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine near the city of Kalynivka. About thirty thousand people were evacuated from the territory of Vinnytsky and Kalynivsky districts. The Defense Ministry said that 83,000 …