3 August 2021 Prime Minister Boris Johnson meets Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the Belarus opposition leader for a bilateral meeting in 10 Downing Street. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street Prime Minister Boris Johnson met the leader of the Belarusian opposition, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, in Downing Street today. He condemned the Lukashenko regime’s severe human rights violations and persecution of

The main two versions of Shishov’s death are suicide and murder with imitation of suicide.Josep Borrell / photo by REUTERS European Commission Vice President and High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell has called for justice in the case of the death of Vitaliy Shyshov, head of the Belarusian House in Ukraine . He wrote about this on Twitter .  Borrel thanked

The Belyaevsky District Court of the Odessa Region sentenced the former state environmental protection inspector of the regional environmental inspection Sergei Karlovts to a fine of 17 thousand hryvnyas, who was accused of extortion and receiving illegal profit. The official was found guilty of committing a crime under Part 1 of Art. 368 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. Among other

Please see Ukrainian Americans for Biden statement on the upcoming meeting between Presidents Biden and Zelenskyy, below: The following text was released this morning: Ukrainian Americans for Biden StatementBiden-Zelenskyy SummitAugust 30, 2021 – Washington, D.C. Established under the Democratic National Committee’s National Democratic Ethnic Coordinating Council, Ukrainian Americans for Biden (UAB) is proud to have belonged to the coalition that

With declining economic trends exacerbated by the pandemic, poor, rural areas are facing a demographic crisis. RASSKAZOVO, Tambov Region – In 2018, Sergei Kalinin decided to leave Moscow and go home to Rasskazovo, a hardscrabble, agricultural town of around 40,000 in central Russia’s Tambov region. He rented out a vacant basement on the town’s central square and fitted it out

The Russian police are conducting an investigation against former owners of Ukraine’s PrivatBank Ihor Kolomoisky and Hennadiy Boholiubov on charges of misappropriating around 860,000 tonnes of crude oil worth ten billion rubles from Tatneft, an informed source told Interfax. “On July 27, investigative agencies of the Interior Ministry for Tatarstan opened a criminal case under Article 210 of the Criminal

KYIV. Aug 3 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The presentation of the concept of a long-term development strategy for Odesa will take place on September 17 within the framework of the first Odesa Business Forum, the founder of the Odessa Business Club Dmytro Kazavchynsky has said. “Today, for our part, we are developing and preparing for presentation of the concept of the strategy…

03.08.2021 17:00 The Bellingcat international investigative group has been working for several days on a tip about the FSB operatives who have allegedly infiltrated Belarusian opposition circles temporarily residing in Ukraine. That’s according to Christo Grozev, one of Bellingcat’s most prominent investigative experts, who spoke in an interview with Echo of Moscow, an Ukrinform correspondent heard. “For several days, we’ve been

03.08.2021 12:00 A tranche of more than USD 2.7 billion from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will be a great gift to Ukraine on the eve of the 30th anniversary of independence, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. He said this while commenting on the relevant decision of the Fund, Ukrinform reports with reference to the President’s Office. Ukraine is expected to

According to the current tariff, a consumer who “burns” 190 kWh per month pays UAH 319.2.Ukrainians will change electricity bills / photo UNIAN Volodymyr Gontar As part of the new PSO model in Ukraine, the electricity tariff will be changed . As Ubr.ua reports , the chairman of Committee on housing and communal services of Public council at KSCA Oleg Popenko declared it. According to

The President is confident that the people who occupied the peninsula will never love it like the Ukrainians.Zelensky spoke emotionally about the occupied Crimea / photo by REUTERS The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky stated that the temporarily occupied Crimea will never become the territory of the Russian Federation. He said this in an interview with Dom TV channel, a fragment of

On Wednesday, July 28, Wizz Air Hungary started operating flights in the Simferopol Flight Information Region (FIR) over the open waters of the Black Sea under the responsibility of Ukraine. This was announced by the head of UkSATSE Andriy Yarmak. “Flight safety and quality air navigation services, confirmed by European and American aviation safety regulators, the shortest routes, reduced flight

The Public Council under the Russian Ministry of Culture will hold a hearing at which it will assess the theaters’ repertoire “in terms of compliance with the national security strategy.” The chairman of the council Mikhail Lermontov told about it. It is not yet known when the hearings will take place. Lermontov noted that in the national security strategy, which was approved

Statements have been made in Ukraine about the intention to appeal the certification of the Russian Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline , which may take place soon. What does this really mean? Certification for any technical system, including pipelines, is a very important step. The certificate of conformity of the constructed pipeline to requirements of the standard is provided by the specialized company called to control

On the morning of August 3, Shishov was found hanged in a park in the Sviatoshynskyi district of Kyiv.Shishov ran for a run on August 2 and disappeared / t.me/beldomua A friend of Vitaliy Shyshov, the head of the Belarusian House in Ukraine (BSU), recounted the words of law enforcement officers based on preliminary results of an examination of the body of an

The Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline is already 99% built.German authorities will focus on EU sanctions against Russia / Illustration REUTERS If Russia tries to use the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline as a geopolitical weapon, Germany will not block it. According to the agency, the German authorities will focus on the European Union imposing sanctions on Russia. Sanctions may be imposed in response to

As part of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s “Big Construction” program, Ukrzaliznytsia has begun active work on electrification of the Kovel-Izov-State Border section. This will help strengthen Ukraine’s export position towards the EU. Acting wrote about it on Facebook . Chairman of the Board of JSC “Ukrzaliznytsia” Ivan Yuryk after the inspection at the site. “The Kovel-Izov-State Border section is crucial for the development of rail transport

NATO and the EU Should Treat It That Way By Dmytro Kuleba August 2, 2021 U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba in Kyiv, May 2021Efrem Lukatsky / Pool / Reuters Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in November 1991, the area that extends from central Europe to Central Asia has been commonly referred to

‘Preponderance of evidence’ proves the virus originated from the Chinese research facility, report claims. By Nick Allen. WASHINGTON 2 August 2021 • Republicans in Congress want to subpoena a British-born scientist as part of an investigation in which they have concluded Covid-19 leaked from a Wuhan laboratory. A report released by Republicans on the House foreign affairs committee said the “preponderance of

The document provides for the adaptation of Ukrainian banking legislation to EU legal norms.The law prescribes a new capital structure of the bank / photo president.gov.ua President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a law amending some laws in order to improve the organization of corporate governance in banks and other issues related to the functioning of the banking system of Ukraine. According to the press

Occupation authorities of the “DNR” did not conduct research on COVID-19 on Sunday, August 1, arguing that the only laboratory in CADO was sanitized. At the same time, the occupiers recognized 90 cases of allegedly “usual pneumonia” over the day, which CADO refuses to recognize as coronavirus. Half of them were hospitalized, 32 people were immediately sent for oxygen support.

Leader of the “DNR” Denis Pushilin has stated the impossibility of returning the now occupied Donbas to Ukraine. He told this in an interview with Russian media. “The return is no longer possible under any circumstances. After the coup in 2014, this is not even the same Ukraine. This is something different – some other entity that does not allow

People tried to escape from the camp.There are 380 people in the camp / screenshot Riots broke out in a tent camp for illegals set up by the Lithuanian authorities at the Rudninkai landfill. Delfi writes about it . The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Lithuania reports that people are outraged that the tents in the camp are wet. According to police, they tried to escape. 

Law enforcement officers told the details of the detention of criminals who robbed foreigners in the capital.In total, the criminal group robbed about 150 foreigners / photo facebook.com/kyiv.gp.gov.ua Kyiv police have provided details of the detention of a gang that robbed foreigners in the capital. According to an UNIAN correspondent, this was announced at a press conference by Kyiv City Prosecutor Oleh