Russia and North Korea ramped up trade in 2019 despite international sanctions, the South Korean news network Arirang reported, citing data from the Geneva-based International Trade Center. Pyongyang has been under UN sanctions since 2006 over its missile and nuclear programs, which the Security Council has unanimously strengthened over the years.  Despite that, North Korea imported more than $42 million in

Cost of Living in Donetsk Compare Donetsk with: We need more contributors for Donetsk to increase our data quality. Do you live in Donetsk? Add data for DonetskNearby cities for which we have more data: Zaporizhzhya 230.43 km Dnipro 257.30 km Kharkiv 257.34 km Restaurants [ Edit ] Range Meal, Inexpensive Restaurant 110.00 ₴ 78.48-196.20 Meal for 2 People, Mid-range Restaurant, Three-course 392.40 ₴ 300.00-700.00 McMeal at

27.01.2020 18:20 The District Court of The Hague confirms that at least one of the suspects in the MH17 case has expressed a desire to join the legal proceedings and wants to be represented in court by a Dutch law firm. “Recently, the Court has received the message that at least one of suspects expressed a desire to be represented

The miners of the Komsomolets Donbasu coal mine, operating in the occupied Donbass, have confirmed the fact that the “DNR” security forces detained director of the enterprise Andriy Vashura. This is stated in a letter addressed to one of the separatist Telegram channels. According to the letter’s authors, the detention of the director by the so-called “Organized Crime Control Bureau

Occupied Donetsk may be left without municipal transport: equipment ran its course, hundreds of specialists are leaving Donelektroavtotrans due to the low salaries. This is reported by one of the separatist television channels. This company transported more than 80 million passengers in 2019, but half of them were beneficiaries. There is a crowding in trolleybuses and trams at rush hour.

Rinat Akhmetov is now worth an estimated $12.2 billion and still Ukraine’s richest man by far. He has increased his wealth by 76 percent, or $5.3 billion, over the last year.Photo by AFP Ukrainian billionaire Rinat Akhmetov has bought a €200m home on the French Riviera from the Campari group, the latest purchase in a property portfolio that also includes a

JSC Ukrposhta has so far not imposed restrictions on the reception of shipments from China, Ukrposhta CEO Igor Smelyansky told Interfax-Ukraine on Monday. “At the moment, no restrictions are planned. We, as members of the Universal Postal Union, are certainly in contact with colleagues from other countries, however, according to the status today, taking into account how the disease spreads

“It is such a working, meticulous process,” he explained12:50, 27 January 2020112 Agency The ‘efficient contact’ established between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky as Interfax-Ukraine reported citing Putin’s Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov. “Between two presidents, actually, the working contact is already established, quite effective as the recent events showed,” he stated. Putin’s spokesperson underlined that ‘the contact itself is not something

The election of Russian State Duma member Pyotr Tolstoy as PACE Vice President according to Russia’s quota has been preliminarily blocked. Maria Mezentseva, the representative of the Ukrainian delegation, raised objection to the nomination of Tolstoy, an Ukrinform correspondent reports. “Mr Tolstoy has repeatedly expressed his anti-Semitic views in public. Therefore, he is not worthy of being the PACE Vice

Ukraine’s territorial integrity must be restored within the borders prior to 2014. “For us, Poland, the situation is unequivocal: we demand the observance of international law and, in this context, the restoration of the full territorial integrity of Ukraine. This is our firm position, Ukraine can always rely on us in this matter,” President of Poland Andrzej Duda said at

Ukrainians will never forget that every fourth Holocaust victim out of six million was from Ukraine. “Being here at the International Holocaust Remembrance Day is very important to me. The Holocaust tragedy has left wounds in the heart of every Ukrainian. We will never forget that every fourth Shoah victim out of six million was from Ukraine,” President of Ukraine

The relevant proposal of Lithuanian MP Emanuelis Zingeris received a sufficient number of votes during the opening of the PACE Winter Session in Strasbourg. facebook.com/ParliamentaryAssembly The credentials of the Russian State Duma’s delegation have been appealed at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). The relevant proposal of Lithuanian MP Emanuelis Zingeris received a sufficient number of votes

Brazil abolished the anti-dumping duty of USD 1.23 per kilo on import of automobile tires from Ukraine. The Ministry of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture, Ukrainian News Agency reports. “Based on the results of the review of anti-dumping measures regarding the import of automobile tires to Brazil, the authorized body of the Federative Republic of Brazil decided to stop the

President of the United States Donald Trump denied he had told former United States National Security Advisor, John Bolton, about the relation between the suspension in allocation of USD 391 million in the military aid to Ukraine and the investigation against Hunter Biden, the son of former vice president of the United States, Joseph Biden. President Trump has written this

Former Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal and Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe agreed that the recent revelations from John Bolton, puts Republicans in a difficult position. Bolton’s manuscript confirmed that President Donald Trump’s bribery scheme puts senators in the difficult position of being faced with firsthand witnesses they’ve tried to block. Republicans were given multiple opportunities to agree that they would like

The main department of the State Service of Ukraine on Food Safety and Consumers’ Protection in Vinnytsia region has reported about killing 108,690 birds over an outbreak of avian influenza in the region. According to the authority, on Friday, in particular in Khutor private farm 108,140 birds were destroyed, Nemyriv-Podillia LLC (both are located in Vinnytsia region) – 544 birds.