Billionaire oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky (C) speaks to Naftogaz representatives during a Ukrnafta oil and gas company meeting in Kyiv in May 2015. Ukrnafta is a 50 percent state-owned company, with Kolomoisky’s Privat Group owning 42 percent. Ukrnafta owes $500 million in unpaid taxes to the state.Photo by Courtesy (Ukrinform) State-owned gas utility Naftogaz and Ukrnafta, the country’s leading oil and gas

Experts on children’s “upbringing” in occupied Donbas: This somehow resembles “Hitler Jügend” VLAD ABRAMOV 14:00, 05 February 2020 Russian propaganda is raging in schools across the temporarily occupied parts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Militarization of young minds in these areas is entering a new round amid preparations for the celebration of February 23 (Russia’s Homeland Defender Day) and May

At about Monday midnight, the enemy allowed a ceasefire provocation, making a salute to “celebrate February 23”, the Day of Defender of the Motherland that is regularly marked in Russia08:46, 24 February 2020 On late Sunday and early Monday, Russian militants used artillery to land provocative attacks on Ukrainian positions in Donbas. 20 shells hit the positions of Ukrainian forces there,

Minister Timofei Milovanov has said. “It is important to know here that the main desire of the IMF is to ensure that there are either equal conditions or better conditions for small and medium-sized businesses,” Milovanov said according to UNIAN. “But there is no precondition on the land market in those agreements with the IMF.” Ukraine’s Court of Appeals has ruled that

 The sixth administrative court of appeals has upheld reinstatement of Roman Nasirov as head of the State Fiscal Service (SFS), but Nasirov refused to be reinstated, the press service of the court has reported. “The sixth administrative court of appeals on February 17, 2020 adopted the rejection of the claim for reinstatement as head of the SFS, and the decision

More than 950,000 people with registration in ORDLO received biometric passports of Ukrainian citizens to travel abroad, Deutsche Welle Corporation reported on Monday referring to the State Migration Service of Ukraine. According to the Service, received at the DW request, as of mid-February 2020, some 950,405 passports of a citizen of Ukraine were issued for travelling abroad to citizens of

Lenta, Russia’s third biggest retailer by profit, with a network of 249 hypermarkets in more than 130 Russian cities, has received permission from the Cypriot authorities to use Cyprus as its jurisdiction, and has changed its official name to Lenta PLC, the company announced. “Today the Department of Registrar of Companies and Official Receiver (DRCOR) has issued the company a

Russia’s annexation of the Crimea was not the result of choice of the residents of the peninsula, since all the events of February-March 2014 took place under the control of the armed forces of the Russian Federation. This was told by active participant in the seizure of the Crimea, nicknamed Trifon, who calls himself former lieutenant colonel of the reserve

Within two to three months, the military strategy of Ukraine will appear, which will document the course of Ukraine towards NATO membership, said Ivan Aparshin, Director General of the Directorate for National Security and Defense of the President’s Office of Ukraine. “Ukraine’s acquisition of NATO membership is not discussed at all today. In the near future, the presidential decree, the

Ukraine and Turkey expand scheduled air service between the countries. “Following the negotiations at the level of the aviation agencies of Ukraine and Turkey in Ankara on February 20, the existing conditions of scheduled air service on routes between Ukraine and the Republic of Turkey were expanded,” the State Aviation Administration of Ukraine informs. The parties agreed that the air

An asshole drove his car into the crowd of a carnival party in Germany. Several people got severely injured, in particular small children. The police arrested his ass and all carnival festivities today were canceled. © 2020 ARD Advertisement

SkyUp Airlines does not cancel its flights to Italy so far, where 5 coronavirus deaths have been reported. “The flights are not canceled so far. However, we are in process of maintaining communication and taking decisions with government agencies,” the airline’s press service told Ukrinform. If the flight schedule is changed, a separate announcement will be made, the press service

An American investor from New York prognoses a meaningful growth and direct international investments for Ukrainian real estate market. Nevertheless, it happens only under the reformation of the justice system and setting-up state-private cooperation, as the head of an investment company Investigroup LLC Kizito Owusu believes. Critics and politicians often claim that Ukraine is developing on the level of African

The United States has welcomed Ukraine’s progress in the fight against corruption and the implementation of institutional reforms, and also reaffirmed its commitment to a peaceful settlement to the conflict in Donbas. U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Stephen E. Biegun said this during a meeting with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko in Washington, D.C., on February 21. “Unwavering U.S. support