Ukrainian Naftogaz signed a contract for $6.31 million with Covington & Barling LLP (New York, USA). Covington & Barling LLP will represent the interests of the national oil and gas company (Naftogaz Ukraine) in arbitration against Russia under a claim for the compensation of losses over the annexation of the Crimea by Russia.

As Interfax-Ukraine reported, the agreement was signed on January 11th. According to Naftogaz’s report in the ProZorro e-procurement system, the agreement will expire on …

On January 16, this year's first meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group on the peaceful settlement of the situation in the Donbas was held in Minsk. Iryna Herashchenko, Member of the Ukrainian humanitarian subgroup said that representatives of separate areas of Donetsk and Luhansk (ORDLO) are blocking the release of the hostages. The separatists have apparently stepped up attempts to exclude her from the negotiating process.

On her Facebook page Iryna Herashchenko wrote, "Despite the call of …

Montenegrin authorities suspect a Russian citizen, Eduard Shirokov, of planning the assassination of the former Montenegrin Prime Minister, Milo Đukanović.

As Vijesti Online reported, he was charged in absentia of criminal organization and terrorist activities.

Earlier Shirokov and another Russian citizen, Vladimir Popov, were on the international wanted list. According to the prosecution, they and other citizens of Serbia planned to arrange mass riots and a coup d’etat on Parliamentary …

The Spokesperson of the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mariana Betsa, wrote on her Twitter account that the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs filed a lawsuit against Russia with the U.N. International Court of Justice in The Hague. “Ukraine just filed a lawsuit against the Russian Federation to the U.N. International Court of Justice. And this is a historic lawsuit as the law is on our side,” Betsa wrote.According to Kyiv, Moscow violates the International Convention for the …

Ukraine should implement a pension reform, reduce the number of state employees, abolish the simplified tax system and open a land market, Ukrayinska Pravda reported, referring to the recent version of the Memorandum of Cooperation between Ukraine and the International Monetary Fund.

“The draft Memorandum of Cooperation provides in total for 12 structural beacons, seven of which are new,” the edition wrote. As noted in the report, the Cabinet of Ministers should take two steps, firstly, make a …

On January 14, Ukrainian MP and former Azov Battalion Commander Andriy Biletsky said in his blog on the Ukrainska Pravda website that the management positions in the National Guard of Ukraine were taken by outright separatists. He declared that systematic corruption prevails there and that it is a threat to the defense capabilities of the country.

The Military Prosecutor's Office and the SBU promised to look into the situation "carefully, impartially and according to the law.”

In his …

Ukraine should deliver 49 Oplot tanks to Thailand under a contract worth $200 million signed in 2011. However, as agreed by both parties, the schedule for delivering the entire batch was pushed back to autumn of 2017, the press service of Ukrspetsexport state enterprise reports.

"This decision was made due to the hostilities in the east of Ukraine," the statement reads. It was also reported that next week at Malyshev plant the transfer of a new batch of Oplot tanks under the contract with …

According to the head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk Peoples’ Republic, Alexander Zakharchenko, the beginning broadcasts of Ukrainian radio in the territory of the Donetsk region is not controlled by separatists, as he stated at a press-conference.

"Yes, I know about this problem. There is this station in Chasiv Yar which will broadcast to our territory. For today, if you turn on TV, you can catch any wave including in Ukrainian language. Basically, we have lived with Ukrainian broadcasting …