Materials on 21 December 2016 year

  • Rada passed High Council of Justice bill The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine at night on December 21 adopted the law on the High Council of Justice by 271 votes. The HCJ is meant to be a collegial body of the government and the…
  • 2017 budget bill adopted The Verkhovna Rada in the early hours on Wednesday passed the bill on the state budget for 2017. The second reading of the bill was endorsed by 275 votes. The final reading got the…
  • The Ambassador of the United States to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, says the Russian Federation does not comply with the obligations under the Budapest Memorandum, in contrast to the…
  • Russia for 25 years waged hybrid war against Ukraine - US envoy US Ambassador in Ukraine Marie L. Yovanovitch believes that the so-called "hybrid warfare" of Russia against Ukraine has begun even before the emergence of the term. "I'll tell you…
  • Uman synagogue vandalised (updated) A group of young people on Wednesday night broke into the Uman synagogue on the grave of Rabbi Nachman, sprayed the walls and floor with red paint and hurled chunks of pork around…
  • Two troops killed, four wounded, four shell-shocked in ATO Over the past day, two Ukrainian soldiers were killed, four wounded and another four were shell-shocked in Donbas combat zone, the press officer on the ATO Col. Andriy Lysenko told…
  • Lawmakers name Ukraine's biggest challenges in 2017 Ukrainian lawmakers in the ruling coalition and the opposition differ in their assessment of challenges wich Ukraine will face in the next year, as evidenced from the politicians'…
  • MP lambastes Cabinet's policy on decentralization MP Serhiy Sobolev (Fatherland) disapproves of the Cabinet policy on decentralization. During the 21 December round table at Gorshenin Institute the lawmaker said the unification of…
  • Central bank says hryvnia regained stability The situation on the currency market remains stable after the currency intervention by the National Bank of Ukraine on 20 December, the deputy governor of the NBU Oleh Churiy said…