From the petty bribes parents must pay to get their kids into school, through to multibillion euro scandals, the former Soviet republic is riddled with corruption, writes Josh Cohen
KYIV (Sputnik) — Kyiv is awaiting a final decision from the European Union on the introduction of a visa-free regime with Ukraine, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said Sunday.
KYIV, January 3. /TASS/. A U.S. military base in Ukraine is not on the country’s agenda as Ukraine’s laws do not provide for its possible deployment, Ukraine’s Defence Minister Stepan Poltorak said in an interview with the Ukrainian News agency published on Sunday.
MOSCOW, January 3. /TASS/. Ukraine’s security forces are continuing to deploy armored vehicles along the demarcation line and setting positions for conventional and missile artillery violating the Minsk agreements, Colonel Igor Yaschenko, acting Chief of Staff of Militia corps of the People’s Republic of Lugansk, said on Sunday.
A study of the February 20, 2014 “Snipers’ massacre” in Kyiv, where scores of protesters were killed by shots fired from surrounding buildings, has proved that it was carried out by Western-backed opposition groups. (More …)
“The December 2015 Eurobonds constitute debt obligations which Ukraine can not pay in accordance with their initial terms”, the ministry said in a statement.
On December 28, a statement on the new media law on the president’s website explained that “today, in conditions of hybrid war, [approving such a law] is an issue of the survival of our country, an issue of efficient resistance to the aggressor-country’s propaganda work aimed against Ukraine.”
Russia strongly opposed the free trade pact and says its ban on Ukrainian imports is necessary to protect its own internal markets.
MOSCOW, January 3. / TASS /. The authorities of the People’s Republic of Donetsk have registered no shootings by the Ukrainian security services on its territory on Sunday night, the local news agency reported citing the authorities.