Materials on 12 April 2017 year

  • Post Scriptum. The wall
    Sonya Koshkina
    The authorities are getting increasingly more indifferent of true reforms, thus building a wall between them and civil society, Sonya Koshkina says.
  • Five ATO troops wounded on 11 April Over the past day, the situation in the area of the anti-terrorist operation in Donbas remained tense. Russia-backed militants, in violation of the Easter ceasefire agreement waged…
  • Regional state property chiefs held in graft raid Prosecutors on 11 April busted on a bribe the head and deputy head of the regional branch of the State Property Fund of Ukraine in Kyiv Region, Prosecutor-General Yuriy Lutsenko wrote…
  •  Angered commuters block railway tracks The residents of the village of Baryshivka, Kyiv Region, blocked the railway tracks at six in the morning on Wednesday, after some were unable to cram into a commuter train to the…
  • AMC exposes 300 cartel collusions in 2016 The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine opened about 300 probes on anticompetitive concerted actions last year, says the first deputy chairman of the AMCU, Maria Nyzhnyk. "Over the…
  • Emergency situation in energy sector extended by another month The Cabinet of Ministers at a Wednesday meeting extended the state of emergency in the energy sector for another month, the press service of the Ministry of Energy said. For end users…
  • Ukraine's crime rate said 19% down in 2017 Interior Minister Arsen Avakov says that the number of crimes committed in 2017 decreased by 19%. In a release posted on the website of the Interior Ministry, the minister says that…
  • The first Deputy Minister for Economic Development and Trade Maxym Nefyodov said that the goal of his ministry is to maximally demonopolize Ukrainian markets. "A lot of people think…
  • Separatists pledge commitment to ceasefire Representatives of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics have said at a meeting of the trilateral contact group in Minsk that they are committed to a full ceasefire…