After the ban on Russian social networks, the number of Ukrainian Facebook users grew by 25%
The Ukrainian audience on Facebook has grown by almost a 25% in the past two weeks adding 1.5 million users, as reported by Watcher online newspaper.
As of today, Facebook has 8.3 million Ukrainian users. According to the methodology established by the American social network, users are considered to be people who have been logged in and used the social network at least once within the last 30 days.
Over the past 8 years - since April 2009 – the Facebook audience in Ukraine has grown by 131 …
Russian Ministry of Defense would make it obligatory for military personnel to report on their online activity
Russia's Defense Ministry has prepared a bill obliging Russian military and foreign contractors to report their publications on the web, the document is available on the official draft regulations website.
"The extension of this requirement to servicemen or citizens (foreign nationals) entering into contracts for military service is similar to those defined for state civil servants, specifically, to submit to the federal executive body or federal state body where the federal law provides for …
Japanese company Fujikura will open two more plants in Ukraine
The Japanese electrical equipment manufacturer Fujikura Automotive Ukraine Lviv plans to open two more plants in Ukraine. The First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine and Minister of Economic Development and Trade, Stepan Kubiv posted the news on Facebook.
"We completed the meeting with Keidanren where we worked on Ukraine-Japan investment projects. Fujikura Automotive Ukraine Lviv plans to expand the work of the enterprise and increase the staff of employed workers from two thousand to three …
Putin: NATO contradicts itself by increasing military expenditure while talking about establishing relations with Russia
In an interview for Le Figaro, Russian President Vladimir Putin called NATO’s plans contradictory, since it is increasing military expenditure but simultaneously talking about a desire to establish relations with Russia.
“At the NATO summit there was talk that NATO wants to establish good relations with Russia. But why then are they increasing their military expenditure? Who are they intending to fight against? There are a couple of internal contradictions here,” Putin observed.
The Russian …
Moldovan President hopes for the resignation of the Prime Minister after the expulsion of Russian diplomats
The President of Moldova, Igor Dodon, said at a press conference on Tuesday that he hopes that the country's Prime Minister, Pavel Filip, will resign after the decision to expel Russian diplomats from the republic.
"I hope that in the near future I will see other resignations (on Tuesday, Dodon signed four decrees on the resignation of other ministers - members of the Liberal Party of Moldova). Maybe the Prime Minister himself will leave because of what happened yesterday," Dodon stressed.
He …