18.09.2020 | Halya Coynash IMPLEMENTATION OF EUROPEAN LAW Russian-controlled militants in Donbas forced Ukrainian POWs to march through the streets Almost seven years after Russia began its aggression against Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada has passed, in its first reading, draft bill 2689 enabling punishment, in full accordance with international law, for war crimes and crimes against humanity., including crimes that Russia is trying to

Volodymyr Zelenskyy and mayor of Dnipro city Borys Filatov during a meeting.  2020/09/21 – 15:09 • POLITICS Editor’s NoteLocal politicians in Ukraine are immersed in corruption scandals and controversial activities. Yet, Ukrainians spare them the cantankerous criticism doled out to national elites, and vote for the same old faces, sometimes for decades in a row. The local elections coming up on 25 October

The railway line Mariupol-Lvov is being completely modernized with new cars. This was announced by the Minister of Finance Sergei Marchenko during the presentation of the draft state budget for 2021 in the Verkhovna Rada . According to him, for the first time, the state financing of the railway infrastructure was included in the draft state meter. In particular, 3.3 billion hryvnia is allocated for the

The bail has been set at UAH 3,001,656, instead of UAH 6 million initially sought by prosecutors.Oleksandr Yurchenko / Photo from UNIAN, Oleksandr Kuzmin The High Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine on Monday, September 21, partly satisfied the prosecutors’ motion and ruled to remand in custody Member of Parliament Oleksandr Yurchenko, who had been charged in a corruption-related criminal investigation. The

Russian lawmakers may have been the ultimate recipients of some of the nearly 400 kilograms of cocaine that were seized from the Russian Embassy in Argentina in 2018, an investigative report said Sunday.  Four suspects are facing a closed trial in Russia after a yearlong investigation into the discovery of 350 kilograms of cocaine worth around $50 million at the school grounds

Head of the Ukrainian delegation to the TCG Leonid Kravchuk demands that CADLO immediately provide the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) with access to illegally detained citizens of Ukraine, in particular, to the former Izoliatsyya plant, where militants torture people. This is reported by the press service of the President. Kravchuk notes that the agreements of leaders of

Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal promised to complete the urban planning reform and eliminate shadow schemes in the industry as early as this year.Photo from UNIAN Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov says the ministry has opened data on declarative and permitting documents from the construction operations registry. “We are opening data on declarative and permissive

The survey was conducted on September 12-16.REUTERS That’s among voters who intend to cast ballots and have already made up their choice, according to a poll conducted by Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS). Another 18.9% of those polled would vote for former President Petro Poroshenko, and 13.3% for the leader of the pro-Russian Opposition Bloc Party Yuriy Boyko. Read alsoUkrainian political