The resignation of Ukrainian Economy Minister Aivaras Abromavičius has almost buried hopes that the country will be able to overcome a “decades-long struggle with corruption,” The Washington Post reported. (More …)
The claims by the Ukrainian authorities regarding the fulfillment of the crucial political and economic reforms are contrary to fact, the Forbes economist Mark Adomanis wrote in his Twitter account. (More …)
KYIV – The ankle-deep mud sucks at my boots as I slog through it, ducking under the cement mixer’s chute just before it begins disgorging its cargo into a ditch dug into the frozen Ukrainian soil. As a worker with a shovel begins smoothing the concrete, Rabbi Moshe Azman, the leader of one of Kyiv’s two Chabad hassidic communities stands above him, thanking God and tossing in a symbolic spadeful of cement.
The band The Hardkiss got a huge applause from the audience. Konstantin Meladze said that the band The Hardkiss is one of the promising bands in Ukraine. Ruslana called their rock ballad Helpless “fresh and trendy”, she was not sure though that the song will do well in Stockholm.
LONDON • A furious Manchester City have written to the Football Association (FA) to complain about the scheduling of their FA Cup fifth-round tie against Chelsea this month. The club called on the game’s power brokers to address the fixture congestion they believe is damaging English football.
KYIV, February 6. /TASS/. Ukraine is not ready to stop purchasing Russian media products, head of the Verkhovna Rada’s committee for freedom of expression and information policy Viktoria Syumar said on Saturday.
Ukrainian investigators said Saturday they had found a cache of 24 guns implicated in a bloody crackdown on pro-EU demonstrators in February 2014 that led to the downfall of the country’s pro-Russian leader.
KYIV, February 6. /TASS/. Ukraine plans to rename localities in the self-proclaimed People’s Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk along with Crimean towns, pursuing the so-called policy of ‘de-communization,’ head of Ukraine’s National Memory Institute Vladimir Vyatrovich said on Saturday.
