In 2020, the Ukrainian government approved the Economic Stimulus Program to overcome the COVID-19 epidemic consequences. Unfortunately, it proved to be inefficient: in the second quarter of this year, the country's GDP fell by 11.4%, […]
15.09.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Office of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea condemned the so-called "regional and local elections" held by Russia on the illegally annexed peninsula and thanked the European Union for its […]
15.09.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The total damage caused by the Russian Federation due to Crimea annexation reaches one trillion hryvnias. That amounts to almost a quarter of Ukraine's gross domestic product in 2019. Deputy General Prosecutor of Ukraine Gunduz […]
14.09.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The security Service of Ukraine counterintelligence has exposed an enemy secret service agent. The Odesa region resident established contacts with an FSB staff member in May 2020. The attacker offered his services to the enemy […]
14.09.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
Ukraine has received the official status of a Biarritz Partnership member. The organisation aims to fight for gender equality around the world. The Presidential Office press service announced this. "Within the partnership framework, Ukraine as […]
14.09.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The negotiations of the "Normandy Four" leaders' political advisers are over in Berlin. The seven-hour meeting's main result, according to President of Ukraine Office head Andriy Yermak, was an agreement to continue the "cease-fire" regime […]
13.09.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
Agreed by the Tripartite Contact Group, a "one-time inspection" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine positions near the village of Shumy in Donbas will not take place. As the Office of the President of Ukraine […]
11.09.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has fully recovered after doctors brought him out of a medically-induced coma, report The Insider, Bellingcat, and Der Spiegel. Navalny already managed to recall the events that preceded his poisoning […]
11.09.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
Belarusian security forces threatened Maria Kolesnikova, an opposition leader and a member of the coordinating council in Belarus, with physical violence and murder, demanding that she leave Belarus voluntarily. The former candidate for the presidency […]
10.09.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has made the final decision regarding the possibility of supplying water to the Russian-annexed Crimea. According to it, water supply to the peninsula is possible only after its de-occupation. Deputy Minister […]
10.09.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
It has become casual to call the COVID-19 pandemic nothing short of world war against invisible enemy and thus to declare war both to its cause and the consequences. And while the rush to find […]
09.09.2020 • pu
The G7 countries called for Russia to urgently clarify who is responsible for the poisoning of opposition politician Alexei Navalny, and bring the perpetrators to justice. The G7 foreign ministers' statement declares this. "We, the […]
09.09.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Government of Ukraine expects to start preparations for negotiations with the European Union on the renewal of the Association Agreement in September. The draft plan of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine for 2020 […]
09.09.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
Belarusian people have to decide about their future for themselves, but Belarus and the EU would both gain if they have normal, deeper and better relations, said Karin Karlsbro, Swedish MEP, Vice-Chair of the European […]
08.09.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Russian Federation uses foreign mercenaries from more than 30 countries in the war in Donbas. Today, Ukrainian law enforcement agencies investigate about 100 such foreigners. The Deputy General Prosecutor of Ukraine Gunduz Mammedov reports […]
08.09.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
Ukraine’s Security Service counterintelligence officers detained an agent of the enemy classified service who prepared for a terrorist attack. On his Russian curators' request, the agent planned to fire RPG-22 grenade launchers with ammonia at […]
08.09.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
Relations between Ukraine and Belarus remain actual, but contacts between Ukrainian and Belarusian officials have been kept on hold. Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba stated this in his interview for Radio “Svoboda.” "To […]
07.09.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
COVID-19 has changed the whole world and not always negatively. For example, environmentalists say that during isolation, the average number of "good quality air days" in China increased by 21.5%. European satellites have observed a […]
07.09.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
Ukrainian citizens trust the Armed Forces of Ukraine the most (65% of respondents), followed by the church (63%) and volunteer organisations (63%). These are the results of research conducted by the Razumkov Center's sociological service together […]
07.09.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Ukrainian military is prepared to give an adequate response by all available capabilities and means in the case of opening fire by pro-Russian militants in the Donbas. The Joint Forces Operation (JFO) commander Volodymyr Kravchenko […]
06.09.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
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