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.
Oleg Kalugin is a former Soviet Foreign Intelligence Service officer, then a Counter-Intelligence Service officer and a KGB General. In the USSR, he served as immediate supervisor of Vladimir Putin, President of RF. Now Kalugin lives in the USA. Yuri Felshtinky, a Russian American historian, recently interviewed Kalugin. They talked about US President Donald Trump and his ties with Russia. GORDON exclusively publishes transcription of this conversation.
Taking into account the identical letters that the vandals left on the desecrated monuments to the victims of the Holocaust in the Mykolaiv and Kirovohrad regions, we can talk about an anti-Semitic organization, which makes the situation dangerous for the Ukrainian Jews, since such organizations rarely stop at the desecration of monuments, said the president of the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine Boris Lozhkin.
