Contents tagged with Politics
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Nadiya Savchenko was expelled from the Batkivshchyna faction
The Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, Nadiya Savchenko, on Thursday, December 15th, was expelled from the Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) faction, as reported by the press service of Batkivshchyna. According to the statement, Savchenko was included in the electoral list during the elections in 2014 so as to free the former pilot from Russian captivity. However, "life has shown that the principles and political convictions of Savchenko do not coincide with that of Batkivshchyna," the statement read. The …
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Russian universities were checked for 'protest potential'
During the last two years the hidden "protest potential" of students and teachers at Russian universities have been monitored, as reported by the Deputy Head of the Institute for Strategic Studies and Projections at the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (PFUR), Nikita Danyuk, at the Congress of the vice-rectors for educational work, Kommersant reports.
As part of the educational program "Scenarios for the Future of Russia," Danyuk, together with his colleagues, visited more than 40 …
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Azov Battalion establishes new political party
On October 14th, the founding congress of the new political party “National Corps” will take place in Kyiv, according to the website of Civil Corps of Azov.
“An initiative group of the new political party consists of members of the public organization Civil Corps of Azov, veterans of the Azov Regiment of the National Guard, volunteers and Ukrainian patriots,” the statement of the Civil Corps of Azov reads. Civil Corps of Azov is a non-military organization created by the Azov National Guard …
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Poroshenko appoints controversial Yanukovych-era diplomat as Ambassador to Norway
The President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, appointed Viacheslav Yatsiuk, the odious diplomat from the administration of the former President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, as the Ukrainian Ambassador to Norway, as indicated in an article by Sergei Sidorenko of EuroPravda. Norway is aware that "Yatsiuk was the third person assigned to the Ministry after Kozhara and his éminence grise Ruslan Demchenko, in the last years of Yanukovych’s presidency".
The signature of Yatsiuk is on some of the …
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Lutsenko: Ukrainian Verkohvna Rada will vote on Shokin's resignation on Tuesday
The resignation of the Prosecutor General, Viktor Shokin, will be voted on this Tuesday, March 29, 2016 according to a statement made by the head of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc "Solidarity" (PPB) Party, Yuriy Lutsenko, on the Inter TV channel, as reported by the Press Service of the Party.Lutsenko indicated that Shokin "having lost the public support, wrote his resignation." "He resigned and this resignation will be voted upon on Tuesday. The President will be ready to appoint the next candidate …
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Yatsenyuk: Ukraine has a crisis in morals and ethics
The Prime Minister of Ukraine, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, said that the government crises actually do not exist. “However, the struggle for position distracts the public attention from the really fundamental problems,” Yatsenyuk said, expressing his criticism of the political elite of the country as well as his proposals in the program 10 Minutes with the Prime Minister on Sunday, March 27, 2016.
"The main cause of the artificial crisis is not a political one but an ethical and moral one. The crisis …
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Petro Poroshenko Bloc proposes Groisman for next Prime Minister of Ukraine
During an assembly of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc party, a decision was made to support the resignation of the current Prime Minister and the Cabinet and nominate Vladimir Groisman for Prime Minister of Ukraine.
At a meeting of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc political party "Solidarity" on the 25th of March, it was decided to nominate the speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Vladimir Groisman, for the post of Prime Minister. Delegates of the congress supported the proposal of the leader of the …
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Media: Poroshenko and Yatsenyuk agreed on Groisman as Prime Minister
The so-called Strategic Seven agreed that speaker, Volodymyr Groisman, will take the post of the current Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, as reported by the Ukrainskaya Pravda newspaper, which received this information from sources familiar with the progress of the negotiations.
The negotiations on Groisman’s candidacy finally made progress only on Monday, March 21.
The negotiations of the Strategic Seven were conducted in an intense atmosphere starting Friday, March 18.
One of the …
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Ukrainian official names two contenders for post of Prime Minister
The main contenders for the post of Prime Minister of Ukraine are Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko and Verkhovna Rada Speaker Volodymyr Groisman, as stated by the head of the presidential administration, Borys Lozhkin, in an interview with Ukrainian radio station Vesti.
Lozhkin mentioned that he cannot yet say which of the two contenders will be supported by the parliamentary factions. He acknowledged that many in the Rada do not support the idea of a completely technocratic government, which …
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Poroshenko's press secretary denies reports of Saakashvili's dismissal
The Press Secretary of the President of Ukraine, Svyatoslav Tsegolko, wrote on Facebook that reports of Mikheil Saakashvili's dismissal as Governor of the Odessa region are untrue.
"The President had a telephone conversation with Mikheil Saakashvili about the future projects of the development of Odessa region. All 'messages' on the resignation of the Head of the Odessa Regional State Administration are not true," he wrote.
Earlier, Saakashvili’s advisor, the former Consul General of Georgia …