While the whole world is busy, fighting coronavirus that as of April 3, 2020 morning had already took 53 thousand lives, too little attention gets a story that could possibly uncover when and where the virus had originally appeared. In September 2019, when no one heard of the coronavirus yet, near Novosibirsk fire occurred on secured facility called Vector – one of the largest viruses repositories in the world. Yuri Shvets, ex-Soviet spy and Putin’s former classmate at KGB institute, now business intelligence analytic who is living in the USA for more than 25 years, speaks about it in an interview with GORDON. He described how the virus might have found its way to China, and why coronavirus pandemic accelerated the scenario of Putin letting power go from him.
According to President Zelensky economy decline and country’s default are possible if during its extraordinary meeting Verkhovna Rada would fail to adopt the laws needed to deal with the coronavirus outbreak.
Ukrainian government aims to slow down the distribution of coronavirus in Ukraine and minimize sources of virus infection, declares Arsen Avakov, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.
Andriy Yermak, Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, and Dmitry Kozak, Deputy Head of Administration of the President of RF, discussed mutual release of apprehended persons in “all for all” format, reads the announcement of Ukrainian side.
Film called “Eight first dates” in which one of the characters was portrayed by acting President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky now is banned to show in Ukraine.
Maria Zakharova, spokesperson of Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, announced mirroring measures addressing European Union after implication of new sanctions against Russia on January 28.
Stepan Chernovetskyi, the president of the investment company Chernovetskyi Investment Group and the son of Kyiv former mayor Leonid Chernovetskyi, suggested that this case in Spain had been opened because of a certain bias against him as an investor from the former Soviet Union country.
Oleksii Popov, who was appointed as the director of aircraft manufacturer “Plant 410 CA” on January 9, is fired by agreement of the parties based on his resignation letter. Yuri Butusov, editor-in-chief at Censor.NET, reported that Popov failed SBU check-up because of a photo made in 2015 where he is seen wearing uniform of Russian military pilot.
On January 1, 2020, minimum wage in Ukraine in US dollar equivalent became higher than those in Belarus and Russia are. It happened for the first time since 2008, reported Serhii Nikolaichuk, deputy Minister of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky thinks that Cabinet of Ministers decision to close gambling halls was related to the failed parliamentary voting on the draft of law on gambling business legalization.
The reconstruction of the runway of the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv International Airport will allow serving larger aircrafts in any weather conditions, said the head of the board of directors of the airport Denis Kostrzhevskiy.
On December 2 Oleksiy Orzhel, Minister of Energy and Environmental Protection, announced that the government had plans to change top managers and to launch position contests in all strategic companies including Naftogaz of Ukraine. Tymofiy Mylovanov, Minister of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture, said that it is most likely that Orzhel was misunderstood. The government was not going to change neither Naftogaz management nor supervisory board members any time soon.
Giovanni Salvetti, Managing director - head of CIS at Rothschild, says that to get a blind trust to manage the assets is a smart move for a businessperson who decided to have a political career. Salvetti noted that it was the option taken earlier by Petro Poroshenko, the fifth President of Ukraine.
According to journalist Stanislav Rechynskii, after a fight with Head of SBU Ivan Bakanov Andriy Bohdan, Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, is not showing up for work. Sonia Koshkina, LB.ua’s editor-in-chief, has also confirmed that fight had occurred.
Armed Forces of Ukraine are preparing to ward off RF’s military aggression along the entirety of the border, reports Oleksii Taran, deputy chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
According to Simon Welford, General Director of the British American Tobacco Ukraine Group, the proposal is a violation of the free market concept and a direct interference with business pricing.
If the United States opens a case against the former US Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter, then Ukraine will provide legal assistance in it within the frameworks of the international agreement, said former Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko.
The head of the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine, Boris Lozhkin, attended a meeting of the Knesset, where the new deputies of the Israeli parliament took the oath.
