The State Automobile Roads Agency of Ukraine (Ukravtodor) in 2020 will renew the road T-15-13 Nechayane – Ochakiv (Mykolaiv region) with a length of 36.9 km, Ukravtodor has said in its Telegram channel. “This is one of the worst roads in the country, which leads to picturesque places on the Black Sea coast. The plan is to launch it by the end

The facility is subject to U.S. sanctions after Russia occupied the peninsula.REUTERS Russia’s occupying administration has shut down the Kerch ferry service in annexed Crimea over a drop in demand for services to transport railroad cars by sea there. That is according to the Russian-registered Crimean-based news agency Kryminform, referring to the AnRussTrans ferry operator. “On September 28, our ferry service handled the last batch

He is on treatment at home now.Poroshenko has tested positive for COVID-19 / REUTERS Former Ukrainian president and leader of the European Solidarity Party Petro Poroshenko has tested positive for the novel coronavirus. “I’ve got a positive test for COVID,” he said on Facebook on September 29. He also informed he was planning to undergo treatment at home. “In the past six

According to official Yerevan, the pilot of the shot down aircraft diedSu-25 plane© Sergei Bobylev/TASS, archive Warning: This article comes from Russian state-controlled media. TASS, September 29. Turkey’s F-16 fighter shot down Armenia’s Sukhoi Su-25 from Azerbaijni territory, the Armenian Defense Ministry reported. The Turkish plane, while staying inside Azerbaijani airspace, was providing support for Azerbaijan’s forces on the ground delivering strikes

The Russian ruble has hit an almost five-year low against the euro Tuesday as coronavirus cases surged and geopolitical risks weighed down on Russian assets. The ruble shed more than 1% against the euro to fall as low as 93.3, its weakest since January 2016. The ruble also fell by 1% to 79.8 against the U.S. dollar, its weakest since March 2020, when

U.S. and European oil majors’ commitment to moving away from fossil fuels toward renewable energy threatens oil supplies and prices, Russia’s state-run oil giant Rosneft has said, according to the Financial Times. BP, Chevron, Eni, Equinor, ExxonMobil, Repsol, Shell and Total have to varying degrees laid out strategies they say are compatible with the Paris climate treaty. They have announced measures

PHOTOS29.09.2020 10:26 President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has held a meeting of the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption to discuss a draft Anti-Corruption Strategy for 2020-2024, the president’s press service reports.  “The anti-corruption strategy should lay a basis for the fight against corruption. The anti-corruption strategy is a system of measures, the implementation of which can ensure the

The Russian-occupied Crimea has been struggling without the Dnieper water as local ponds and rivers are drying up, as well as major reservoirs. Amid the unfolding disaster, occupation authorities put blame on Ukraine, while pursuing response initiatives that could ultimately destroy the ecosystem across the peninsula. The hot summer and the rainless start of autumn have led to the drying-up

The 2020 tourist season in the occupied Crimea ends amid the growing outbreak of coronavirus. Anti-records for new cases of COVID-19 have been regularly recorded on the peninsula since the beginning of September. For example, on September 4, 101 cases of coronavirus infection were detected in the Crimea over the day. But the occupation authorities did not limit the tourist season

Over 370 Azerbaijani soldiers have reportedly been killed.REUTERS “The enemy has launched a new, large-scale offensive in the Araks [River] valley and [the villages of] Madaghis and Talish,” he said. “The Defense Army of Artsakh (the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic) successfully repels all attacks, inflicting significant losses on the enemy in manpower and equipment.” According to him, more than 370 Azerbaijani