A week-long seminar for the newly elected MPs, which took place this summer in Truskavets resort in the Carpathians, cost “Servant of the People” 10 million UAH (about 413,759 USD). The social movement CHESNO (“Honestly”) reported about the cost, referring to the data of the party’s financial report for the third quarter of 2019. The training of future people’s deputies was organized through LLC

23.11.2019 13:00The European Investment Bank (EIB) has agreed to provide a loan of EUR 450 million to finance new road construction and road network rehabilitation along the most important highway connections in Ukraine. The financing will increase safety and help modernise parts of the network included in the extended Trans-European Network for Transport (TEN-T), which links the country internationally and

The press service of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) reported that nine members of the radical Islamist political organization Hizb ut-Tahrir were arrested. Hizb ut-Tahrir is recognized as a terrorist organization in Russia, Germany, Denmark, the UK, as well as in South and South-East Asia. According to a report published on the website of the FSB, two persons among arrested are

Analysts say a toxic cocktail of state capitalism, corruption and low investment curbs output. By Jake CordellSep. 23, 2019    During his annual phone-in with the public in June this year, President Vladimir Putin described low productivity as “one of the most acute and important” problems facing Russia. Economists agree. Russia is one of the least productive moderately rich countries in the world, ranking

On current trends, Russia would fall short of most of the goals outlined in the president’s $400 billion National Projects program. By Jake CordellNov. 20, 2019    President Vladimir Putin is unlikely to meet most of his flagship economic and development goals during his final term without a significant increase in spending and better performance on a host of key indicators, a

A Russian agent briefly jailed in the United States and then deported back to Moscow has accepted a state job to defend Russians imprisoned abroad, the state-run TASS news agency reported Friday. Maria Butina, 31, pleaded guilty in a U.S. court last December to one count of conspiring to act as a foreign agent for Russia by infiltrating a gun rights group and influencing

Close The former Military Prosecutor of Ukraine Anatoly Matios published a document that lists the damage and lack of property on Ukrainian warships, which were captured by the Russian FSB and returned from the annexed Crimea a year later to Ochakov, Nikolaev region. “It was military prosecutors who examined, recorded, and still continue to record everything that the “neighbor” did to our

The EU has demanded that Russia ensure unhindered and free passage of ships to the Sea of Azov, reports  Ukrinform news agency.. “We remain consistent and persistent in our appeals to Russia to ensure unhindered and free passage to the Sea of Azov under the international law,” reads the statement of EU. The European Union also noted that Russia should have

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak said that the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline will become operational “in the middle of the next year [2020],” without specifying the exact month, reports TASS. Earlier, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak reported that gas supplies through the Nord Stream 2 pipeline could begin before the end of 2019. “Depending on the schedule of

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky had a telephone conversation with Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau on Friday evening, the press service of the head of state has reported. “Volodymyr Zelensky congratulated Justin Trudeau on the victory of the Liberal Party in Canada’s general election and the formation of a new government,” the report says. The head of state thanked

In October 2019, manufacturing output decreased by 5.0% (uncorrected by the effect of calendar days) and by 5.0% (corrected) over October 2018. Ukrainian News Agency has learned this from a statement of the State Statistics Service. At that, in October 2019, manufacturing output increased by 5.6% (uncorrected by the effect of calendar days) and decreased by 2.4% (corrected) over September

By Oleksiy Sorokin. Published Nov. 22. Updated Nov. 22 at 12:48 am Workers of the Nikopol Ferroalloy Plant rally in front of the PrivatBank headquarters in Dnipro on Sept. 23, 2019. “PrivatBank didn’t pay its debt to us. Who’s next?” the sign says.Photo by Ukrinform Billionaire oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky appears to be continuing in his attempts to sabotage Ukraine’s cooperation with the International

On Saturday, November 23, Ukraine commemorates National Holodomor Memorial Day. The Holodomor Memorial Day is marked annually on the fourth Saturday of November under the presidential decrees of 1998 and 2007. In the 20th century, Ukrainians survived three famines – in 1921-1923, 1932-1933, and in 1946-1947. However, the most massive was the Holodomor of 1932-1933 – the genocide of the

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic gave the short one some consoling words in a recent meeting, when he told the seemingly confused dwarf dictator, ‘Its not your fault you’re so short, Vlad, its God’s punishment because you like small boys.’ Our photo above shows the Serbian President barely able to keep a straight face because of their height difference.