KYIV, January 23. /TASS/. Ukraine’s first President, Leonid Kravchuk said on Friday he has no plans to succeed Leonid Kuchma as Ukraine’s chief negotiator at the Contact Group on the settlement in Donbass.
DAVOS (Sputnik) — On January 10, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said Kyiv would not buy gas from Russia at the suggested price of $212 per 1,000 cubic meters as it can buy it cheaper in Europe.
KYIV – Top U.S. and Russian officials were literally brainstorming on new ways to resolve the armed conflict in Donbas on January 15, as described by Russian presidential aide Vladislav Surkov.
BRUSSELS – Kyiv has touted the promise of a visa-free regime for Ukrainians traveling to the European Union as evidence of its success in carrying out reforms, but behind the scenes several key European Union member states are bemoaning the country’s slow progress of implementation and lack of engagement both with its citizens and with Brussels.
KYIV – About 25 percent of Ukrainians approve of the job President Petro Poroshenko is doing, while about 70 percent disapprove of his performance, particularly his administration’s handling of the war in the Donbas. As president, he’s the commander-in-chief of the military and has led the negotiations with foreign leaders to resolve the conflict.
The Russian Orthodox Church has set up a new staff in the synod department of external church affairs to blacken the reputation of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate, to block the Ecumenical Patriarchate from recognizing the Kyiv Church as canonical, and to destabilize religious conditions across Ukraine.
22 de enero de 2016, 13:06Moscow, Jan 22 (Prensa Latina) The Ukrainian president, Petro Poroshenko, pretexted today lacki of security in Donbass to justify the breaching until now of the political stage established in the peace agreements, signed in Minsk, on February 15, 2015.
KYIV – Ukraine on Friday stepped up its economic warfare with Russia by demanding a mult-billion-dollar payment from the Gazprom gas giant for allegedly underpaying Kyiv for its fuel transits to European states.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — According to Siluanov, the lawsuit will be filed before the end of January.
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