Materials on 16 May 2016 year

  • "Lutsenko's law"
    Viktoriya Matola
    Even the Party of Regions of President Viktor Yanukovych's times was not that fast. It took the notorious "16 January laws", to which Self-Reliance MP Olena Sotnyk likened the "Lutsenko…
  • ATO troops face 36 attacks on 15 May The Russia-backed Donbas militants in eastern Ukraine carried out 36 attacks on the positions of the antiterrorist operation (ATO) troops on 15 May. They used weapons banned by the…
  • Prominent lawyer reported killed in Odesa In Odesa, two unidentified attackers opened fire with automatic weapons at a Lexus car in the evening of 15 May and killed a local lawyer. The attackers fled the scene in a dark-coloured…
  • Ukrainian cities rush to throw in bid to host Eurovision "We are always prepared to arrange events at the highest level, we have proved this when we hosted the European Football Championships... We did a great job during the World Chess…
  • President vetoes bill boosting scrap export duties President Petro Poroshenko on Monday, 16 May vetoed the bill raising export duties on scrap metal, according to the parliamentary website. On 21 April 2016, parliament raised …
  • One soldier killed in Opytne Over the past day, one soldier has been killed and another injured in Donbas, the spokesman of the Presidential Administration for the antiterrorist operation (ATO), Col Andriy Lysenko…
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  • Fitch leaves Ukraine with low rating Fitch Ratings has affirmed Ukraine's Long-Term Foreign and Local Currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) at 'CCC'. The issue ratings on Ukraine's senior unsecured foreign and local…
  • Sixteenth century Apostolos reported stolen from Kyiv library The National Volodymyr Vernadskyy Library has admitted the loss of the old book Apostolos, printed by Ivan Fedorov in Lviv in 1574. "On 10 May, Kyiv's Shevchenkivskyy district police…
  • Poroshenko urges G7 to extend sanctions against Russia President Petro Poroshenko at a meeting with G7 ambassadors has emphasized the need to extend the sanctions against Russia because of its failure to honour its commitments under the…
  • Experts to discuss coverage of Crimea in international media On Tuesday, 17 May 2016 at 11:00, Gorshenin Institute will host a roundtable entitled "Promoting the Crimean problem in the international information field. How not to let the world…
  • Pro-presidential parliamentary faction elects new head The Petro Poroshenko Bloc (PPB) parliamentary faction has elected MP Ihor Hryniv as its new chairman now that its previous head Yuriy Lutsenko was appointed interior minister. According…