Politics
"Russia is using the Donbas to destabilize Ukraine and wants to shift the responsibility for rebuilding and sustaining the Donbas onto Kyiv and the EU" says a Berlin expert Gustav C. Gressel to Vitaliy Eremitsa from radiosvoboda.
This morning new elected MPs to the Verkhovna rada of Ukraine proved they can be useful for the Ukrainian nation and can work for prospects of the whole country, not only for their own pockets. Historical and important law finally has been adopted today.
Lesson of liberty of speech from Ukraine's journalist Roman Tsymbaliuk at the President Vladimir Putin’s press conference today in Moscow, Russia.
On 11 December the US Senate and the House of Representatives by the majority votes passed two identical resolutions (S.2828 and H.R.5859) with the general name “Ukraine Freedom Support Act of 2014”. Due to procedural nuances the document needs to be re-voted in the Senate. Next step is having it sent to the US President for his signature afterwards the law comes in force, explains Maidan for Foreign Affairs. Below are the main aspects the document covers.
President Vladimir Putin during his annual address to the Russian Federal Assembly was as usual eloquent and persuasive. What it was: true, false, greatness or just desire to raise his status in the eyes of his internal and external opponents, its up for you to decide. Just highlights.
Three ministers of Ukraine’s newly-appointed government are recently naturalized citizens of the country. EMPR gives a brief insight into the background of the foreign-born Ministers of Finance, Healthcare, Economic Development and Trade.
Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk to introduce new regime of social benefits and pensions payments in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts.
This was announced by Prime-Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk during the meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers on 5 November, ukrainska pravda reports.
President put into effect the NSC decision on a complex of measures aimed at enhancing the defense capacity of Ukraine.
President Perto Poroshenko to dismiss head of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine Mykola Lytvyn. This news became public during his business visit to Lvyv oblast today.
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has signed the lustration law today.
Ukraine’s Parliament election 2014 campaign in progress.