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Privatization is scheduled for 2020-2021. REUTERS Kyiv City Council on Thursday approved a list of 120 objects of municipal property to be put up for privatization. Sixty-two of 95 deputies supported the decision at Council meeting, according to a UNIAN…
No confirmation of coronavirus infection has followed so far. REUTERS On February 27, a Ukrainian woman was hospitalized in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, immediately after arriving at Boryspil International Airport from Italy. Ukrainian border guards during a temperature check recorded that…
Russian President Vladimir Putin has defended the pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine, calling for direct talks between them and the Kyiv government to help restore peace. He said Ukraine had accepted the rebel leaders’ signatures on the 2015 Minsk ceasefire…
President Vladimir Putin has heralded the opening of a railway bridge to the Russian-annexed Crimea peninsula by posing in the driver’s cab and praising construction workers. But the opening of the railway was immediately condemned by the European Union as…
Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, was travelling over conflict-hit Ukraine on 17 July 2014 when it disappeared from radar. A total of 283 passengers, including 80 children, and 15 crew members were on board.…
Vitaliy Kulyk State Duma MP Valentina Tereshkova suggested not to “wise up” and not “to make up some artificial designs”, but simply to remove from the Russian constitution restrictions on the number of presidential terms, and, thereby, to reset the…
Russia intends to further streamline the procedure for naturalizing citizens of neighboring states. REUTERS The Russian Federation Council at a plenary meeting on Wednesday, March 11, adopted a draft law recognizing citizens of Ukraine and Belarus who are fluent in…
Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian ambassador to Canada, tweeted that the announcement was “an important result.” REUTERS Iran has agreed to send black boxes from a downed Ukrainian jetliner to Kyiv for analysis, an Iranian official said on Wednesday, a move that…
The scam is being perpetrated by Ukrainian company Milton Group from two floors of an office building in Kyiv, the report claims. REUTERS A whistleblower has revealed the existence of a 200-employee Ukrainian Bitcoin (BTC) trading scam that netted $70…
The official was caught red-handed. Photo from UNIAN A civil servant with the Kyiv city branch of the Social Security Fund for the Disabled has been detained upon receiving a bribe of 17,000 (US$682). “An employee received a UAH 17,000…