As the press service of the regulatory body reported, the National Bank of Ukraine has decided to extend sanctions against Ukrainian subsidiaries of Russian state-owned banks.

The National Bank extended sanctions in order to put into effect the decision of the National Security and Defense Council on March 1st.

Earlier, President Petro Poroshenko emphasized that sanctions towards banks with Russian capital are effective and should be extended.

On March 23, 2017, Ukraine imposed sanctions …

On March 15th, at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on the situation in the annexed Crimea, representatives of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, the United States, and other countries called on Russia to return the Crimea to Ukraine and confirmed that sanctions imposed on Russia would not be lifted while the peninsula remains under Russian control. The event was broadcast on the United Nations website.

The representative of Great Britain to the United Nations recalled the …

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe will prepare a report and a resolution on racial discrimination by Russia of the Crimean Tatars in the annexed peninsula, as reported by Volodymyr Ariev, head of the permanent delegation of the Ukrainian parliament in PACE, on Facebook.

“PACE has unanimously decided that the Assembly will prepare a separate report and resolution about racial discrimination of Crimean Tatars by Russia in the Crimea. The day before yesterday the PACE Monitoring …