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Ukrainian President orders to disassemble and sell the unfinished Ukrayina missile cruiser
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed a decree to demilitarize the unfinished Ukrayina missile cruiser which is stationed in the anchorage area of the 61 Communards Shipyard in Mykolaiv.
Vyacheslav Bonia, Deputy Head of Mykolaiv City Administration, made a statement to this effect at a staff meeting, Hronika.info reports.
At the staff meeting, Bonia told the workers how the authorities plan to deal with the matter of the salaries they are owed.
“You have the cruiser Ukrayina here, …
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Ukraine says Russia's only solution is to replace its Eurovision participant
The Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine for Humanitarian Affairs, Vyacheslav Kyrylenko, offered Russia the option to choose another participant for Eurovision-2017 that has not violated Ukrainian legislation, as stated on Ukrainian Radio, reports Ukrainska Pravda.
Kyrylenko stressed that from the very beginning Ukraine warned that no artist who had violated Ukrainian legislation would be able to participate in the song contest.
"Of course, we are ready to accept all 43 Eurovision participating …
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Media: Chinese companies are actively investing in the Crimea
Chinese companies (including state-owned enterprises) are secretly entering the annexed Crimea as investors, providing services for the Crimean authorities and supplying the peninsula with the latest industrial equipment, according to an article written by Valentina Samar for ZN.UA.
According to Samar, the Kherson office of the Security Service of Ukraine has not yet completed the pre-trial investigation into the participation of the Chinese vessel JIAN JI 3001 in the construction of the so- …
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NATO experts arrived in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine to conduct mine clearance
NATO experts arrived in the town of Balakliia to conduct mine clearance in the territory of the ammunitions depot, reported the head of the Kharkiv regional state administration, Yulia Svetlichnaya.
"In accordance with the instructions of the President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, NATO representatives were asked to demine Balakliia ammunitions depot. They are already arriving in the area in order to carry out routine activities that will allow mine clearing in the territory of the military …
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Saakashvili announces unification of the democratic forces of Ukraine
The ex-head of the Odessa regional state administration and leader of the New Forces Movement (Rukh Novyh Sil), Mikheil Saakashvili, has announced the unification of a number of democratic political forces, and predicts early elections in Ukraine in 2017.
He said this during a forum organized by the Volya party in Kyiv, reports Interfax-Ukraine.
"I think we will find a formula [for unification]; we need to unite all these people. It's ridiculous and untenable when they all individually hold …