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Participants of the rally against embezzlement in the defense industry pelted the police with toy pigs. Participants of the National Corps action “#SvinarchukPoroshenko – behind bars!” held a rally near the Presidential Administration of Ukraine demanding to punish those guilty of embezzling funds in the defense sector, in particular, the Ukroboronprom state-owned concern. According to an UNIAN correspondent, on the […]

During the speech of President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko at his meeting with voters near the Mykhailivsky Cathedral in Kyiv, a scuffle took place between his supporters and opponents. The police separated supporters of the president and his opponents to stop the conflict. According to the UNIAN correspondent, young people came to the meeting with a self-made banner “Where are […]

How law enforcement authorities turn a blind eye on corruption in defense sector. How criminal proceedings against them are being ceased. How much does condoning attitude of tax authorities and SBU cost? How did the Prosecutors’ Office on three occasions bury the investigation on defence scams of the lads? And how did NABU help them? Read on in the investigation […]

A week ago BIHUS.info published the first and second parts of investigation on corruption in Ukraine defense sector. They told about a trio of daring young men who embezzled at least 250 million of Ukroboronprom state-owned concern. One of those “boys” was Ihor Hladkovskyi, a 22-year-old son of the Deputy to the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council […]

The Bohdan Corporation, which belongs to the former first deputy to the secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleh Hladkovskyi, received half a billion hryvnias under secret contracts for the purchase of trucks and ambulances made on Chinese chassis. “Bohdan” received 375 million hryvnias from the state budget at the end of December last year. Almost one hundred […]

Ukraine’s 2018 birth rate became the lowest one in the country’s modern history. According to the State Statistics Service of Ukraine, as quoted by Fakty ICTV, in 2018 there were 336 thousand births in Ukraine. The media says that if compared to the mid-19th century and even to the Holodomor times, the 2018 number is smaller. In 2008 the birth […]

Funding for the so-called election pyramid is almost $ 82 million, Deputy Head of Security service of Ukraine (SBU) Viktor Kononenko says. “We’ve identified 49 organizers of this activity. According to our estimates, over 686,000 citizens of Ukraine were involved in these activities. Each of them had to bring ten people to the polling station. Then they should vote for […]

In 2017, the total net value of the assets of the three richest individuals exceeded 6% of Ukraine’s GDP. This was stated by World Bank Vice President for Europe and Central Asia Cyril Muller. “This is almost twice as much as in Russia and three times as much as in Poland. The ratio of the income share of the richest […]

India was named the biggest importer of Ukraine’s agricultural products in 2018. The country is buying beans, vegetables, oat, soybean and sunflower oil from Ukraine. Last year India imported Ukrainian agri-food worth of USD 1,8 billion, reports the Ukrainian Food Export Board (UFEB). In 2018 Ukraine’s export grew by 5,4 per cent reaching USD 14,8 billion, the non-profit association of […]

In the first quarter of 2018, the deficit of the State Budget of Ukraine amounted to 9 billion UAH. Only in the first quarter of this year, the deficit of the state budget of Ukraine amounted to 9 billion UAH. This was stated at the open economic forum by the head of the subcommittee on customs affairs and improvement of […]

Ukraine would move from old Soviet standards for measuring gas to new ones, adopted in the EU, UkrTransGas reports.

Swedish economist and a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council Anders Aslund’s opinion on the good Turkey’s practice Ukraine should learn to succeed in the economy sector.