Significant money inflows were instrumental in terms of improving the currency exchange rate, – National Bank of Ukraine19:44, 4 February 2020Open source In 2019, Ukrainian labor migrants conducted money transfers to their families to the overall amount of 12 billion U.S. dollars. The press office of the National Bank of Ukraine reported that, replying to the request by Hromadske. “Good export indexes,

There are Turkish preacher’s FETO schools in this country, the President claimed17:43, 4 February 2020aa.com.tr President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky charged the SBU, Ukraine’s State Security Service to deal with the followers of Fethullah Gülen, the Turkish preacher suspected in the organization of coup d’etat in Turkey in July 2016. Zelensky said so during the joint briefing with Turkish leader Recep

Two Russian warships will conduct missile drills near Norway’s northernmost gas pipeline to Europe, the VG news website reported, citing the Norwegian Intelligence Service (NIS). A notice to airmen (NOTAM) is set for an area in the Norwegian Sea west of Helgeland, the Norwegian Joint Headquarters at Reitan near Bodø confirmed. The area with warnings to civilian air traffic is just south

A Chechen emigre and vocal critic of the southern Russian region’s ruler has been stabbed to death in the northern French city of Lille, Agence France-Presse reported Monday. The killing “bears all the hallmarks of having a political motive,” the AFP source was quoted as saying. The AFP source said Aliyev arrived in Lille from neighboring Belgium, where he reportedly had political

Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine Dmytro Dubilet has said that the size of bonuses for Ukraine’s president, prime minister and Verkhovna Rada chairman should be linked to GDP growth in the country. “The president ordered us to put forward a general proposal on the architecture of salaries. I have been working on the issue during past week.

The Russian national says he doesn’t recognize charges pressed against him. Photo from UNIAN Former “Defense Minister” of the so-called “Donetsk People’s Republic” (“DPR”) and an allegedly-retired GRU officer Igor Girkin, nom de guerre Strelkov, has said he is not going to testify in the Dutch-led trial of the MH17 downing case. “I don’t recognize the charges pressed against me and I

Near the walls of the Verkhovna Rada, several dozen Kyiv ambulance employees are protesting against the reduction of ambulance crews, the number of which has decreased from 150 to 100 from February 1. They also demand resignation of director of the Center for Emergency Medicine and Disaster Medicine Anatoliy Vershyhora. Kyiv, February 4, 2019 (c)OSTROV 2020

According to an article on a German resource MDR.de, the German partners don’t understand why they are invited to the Ukrainian “Ukrzaliznytsia”, because the problems the department face should be solved without outside interference. The publication argues that German experts can provide technical consulting, but they cannot help with most of the problems the UZ has. “Deutsche Bahn joins the