The president says 9 million Ukrainians are now offered to have their driver’s license and car registration in their smartphones. facebook.com/eGovernanceUkraine Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced the launch of the Diya [Action] mobile application as part of the State in a Smartphone project. “Today we are introducing the Diya app. From now on, it is available on Apple Store

The head of the Russian Orthodox Church owns a number of luxury watches worth anywhere from several hundred to several thousand dollars, the Open Media news website reported Thursday. Patriarch Kirill sparked a massive scandal in 2012 when a photo on the Church’s website showed him with no watch on his wrist, but with a $30,000 Breguet watch reflected on the table where the

PHOTOS06.02.2020 12:49President of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine Serhiy Bubka has attended the opening of the first specialized curling arena in Ukraine, the NOC’s press service has reported. “A remarkable event in the history of domestic winter sports development took place in the capital on February 5 – the opening of the first specialized curling arena in Ukraine. A

While Gazprom was completing the $7 billion Turkish Stream gas pipeline, Turkey was cutting back on its purchases of Russian gas. By the end of 2019, 14.4-14.8 billion cubic meters (bcm) of Russian gas had been transported to the Turkish market, Interfax calculates, based on statistics from the Turkish Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EPDK). In comparison with 2018, this equates to a

The number of Belarusian citizens who support the idea of a union state with Russia has declined by 20 percentage points in the last year, Kommersant reports, citing the results of a sociological study by Andrey Vardomatsky’s Belarusian Analytical Workshop. While at the start of 2019, more than 60% of Belarusians advocated a union with Russia, by December this figure had dropped

06.02.2020 14:11Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk has stated the government intends to teach six million Ukrainians digital literacy in three years. “Digital literacy today means the basis of country’s competitiveness in the world. This is a challenge we are taking. In the next three years, we plan to teach at least six million Ukrainians to use and develop their digital skills.

06.02.2020 16:17 Dmytro Tabachnyk, former education minister of Viktor Yanukovych rule and ex-member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine from the Party of Regions, was spotted in the annexed Crimea. As Crimea.Realities portal reports, the former Ukrainian politician was spotted near the tax office in Simferopol on February 5. Crimea.Realities also published a photo of Tabachnyk and tried to contact

Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Vladyslav Kryklii has invited U.S. companies to join concession projects in Ukraine, according to the ministry’s press service. He said this during a meeting with U.S. Chargé d’Affaires in Ukraine Kristina Kvien and Counselor to the Chief Executive Officer of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, Caleb McCarry. “The use of concession mechanism will allow the state

The so-called “chairman of the DNR government” Alexander Ananchenko went missing in the occupied part of Donetsk oblast. This is evidenced by the “official” reports of separatist media. You can read in the news archives that at the end of January 2019, Ananchenko, who was “appointed” head of the “government” in December 2018, held a meeting, and already on February

The updated Constitution of the Russian Federation may introduce the concept of “federal territories” with direct federal subordination. This statement was made by co-chair of the working group on the preparation of proposals for amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation Andrey Klishas, – RIA Novosti reports. According to the Russian senator, the Federation Council committees on constitutional law

The Kremlin has confirmed the fact of appointment of Russian citizen Vladimir Pashkov “chairman of the government” of the so-called “DNR”. This follows from the statement of press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov. Answering the question of how the Russian citizen headed the “government” of the terrorist “republic” and how this correlates with the Kremlin’s

For the first time, the Japan Self-Defense Forces will be taking part in the Sea Breeze 2020 naval exercise, which will be held in Ukraine this year, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry announced on its website. On Wednesday February 5, Ukrainian Defense Minister Andriy Zahorodniuk met with Jiro Hiroe, director of one of the departments of the Japanese ground forces command. During

Farmers demand that the pressure of law enforcement agencies on the enterprise cease and Director of the National Anti-corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) Artem Sytnyk, convicted of corruption by court, be dismissed. People came from almost all across Ukraine since enterprises operate in 600 settlements of 22 regions of the country, according to an UNIAN correspondent. During her address from

The number of Ukrainian passengers traveling to the EU countries is growing, whereas the number of those visiting Russia is shrinking, Ukraine’s State Border Guard Service has reported. “The State Border Guard Service has recently reported a record number of citizens – more than 102 million – who passed passport control during 2019. […] Of the total number of Ukrainians,