Ukraine
Specialized anti-corruption Prosecutor began to investigate the legitimacy of actions of ex-president Petro Poroshenko. According to the SAP press service, after a meeting between Head of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office Nazar Kholodnytsky and former owner of Energomerezha Dmytro Kriuchkov, “Following a personal reception by Kholodnytsky of citizen Kriuchkov, regarding the legitimacy of the actions of the former president, a […]
President Volodymyr Zelensky’s representative held a meeting with international experts on the implementation of “state in a smartphone” project. According to the President’s press service, on May 27, Advisor to the President Mykhailo Fedorov met with representatives of the Eurasia Foundation (TAPAS project), Eastern Europe Foundation (EGAP project), Estonian E-Governance Academy (project EGOV4 Ukraine), Office of Administrative Services Reforms, American […]
Today Volodymyr Zelensky has officially become president of Ukraine. During the inauguration ceremony, he took an oath to the people of Ukraine, after which he addressed the deputies. EMPR publishes the full text of his speech. Dear Ukrainians! After my election victory, my six-year-old son said: “Dad! They say on television that “Zelensky is President …”It means that … I […]
Russia – Ukraine war updates from the war zone in southeast Ukraine as of May 8, 2019 by Joint forces operation HQ data: EMPR highlights.
Russia – Ukraine war updates from the war zone in southeast Ukraine as of May 7, 2019 by Joint forces operation HQ data: EMPR highlights.
The Special Investigations Department of the Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) of Ukraine summoned president Petro Poroshenko for interrogation as a witness in the Maidan case. The interrogation is scheduled for May 7, said spokesman of the GPO Andriy Lysenko, according to Radio Svoboda. According to Lysenko, the interrogation on the case about crimes against Maidan investigated by the Special Investigations […]
Ceremonial ship launching was held at the Forge on Rybalskyi shipbuilding enterprise in Kyiv. The first medium reconnaissance ship was built for the needs of the Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by order of the defense establishment. “Over the entire history of Ukraine, there have not been many cases of launching powerful armored boats, amphibious boats, and […]
Mykhailo Fedorov, the director of Vladimir Zelenskiy’s digital campaign, is dreaming to develop a “digital state” so that current processes can be carried out without papers and queuing. He spoke about such plans of the Zelenskiy’s team in his interview to “Hromadske.” “I do not need any positions. I have my own business. There are a lot of companies that […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the simplified procedure for the obtaining of Russian passports by residents of the temporarily occupied Donbas. The decree comes into force from the day of its official publication. The corresponding decree was published on the Russian president’s website. “To establish that persons who permanently reside in the territories of certain districts of […]
Volodymyr Zelenskiy officially declared president by Election Commission. And actually from this moment, he becomes President elect – newly-elected president. Formally, it is only now that foreign leaders should have started to congratulate him (but who cares about the protocol and legal formalities when there is political expediency?). Although there is no need to undermine the authority of the presidency […]
Russian passports mass distribution starts in occupied eastern Ukraine as President Vladimir Putin has signed on April 24, 2019 a decree, simplifying the procedure to grant Russian citizenship to Ukrainians living in Russian-occupied Donbass - Luhansk and Donetsk oblast of eastern Ukraine
The panel of judges, which upheld the claim of the oligarch Igor Kolomoisky and overrode the decision to nationalize Privatbank, complained to the High Council of Justice, the Prosecutor General’s Office and the State Bureau of Investigations about the pressure of the head of state. This is reported by the press service of the court on April 23. The report […]