On October 25 local elections will will take part in Ukraine, including in the area near the demarcation line, but excluding the Donbass and the Crimea, where elections should be held after the end of the occupation.
The deputies of the Verkhovna Rada agreed to increase the military budget by UAH 5 billion at the cost of other articles. By the separate law they agreed the movement of goods to the occupied territory of the Donbass as worded by President Poroshenko.
Kindergartens and educational institutions, including private ones, are exempt from property and profit taxes.
The law introducing the public procurements reform and bringing them to the international standards, which would have introduced measures to combat the corruption in public procurement, did not get enough votes.
Prime Minister Yatsenyuk promised that Ukraine will achieve the energy independence in ten years by means of increasing of own natural gas production. For this purpose the Government submits to the Parliament a package of laws to change the rates and tariffs for mining enterprises, except for those which have cooperation agreements with the state .
The Government plans to transfer a part of the customs service under the management of the British company.
The official exchange rate of hryvnia did not changed: 22.01 UAH/USD (+0.03 UAH), 23.97 UAH/EUR (+0,08 UAH), 3.87 UAH/RUR 10 (+0.01 UAH). Nevertheless, the cash rate in exchange offices is much higher than the official one.
A Dutch prosecutor, investigating the accident of airplane MH-17 flight, said that investigators consider the version of the destruction of the aircraft by the missile from the "BUK" surface-to-air missile system as basic but they also consider other options in order to strengthen the evidence base in the court.
President Poroshenko established a working group on the implementation of the international mechanism for the prosecution of persons guilty of the Malaysian airliner crash.
The UN Security Council postponed voting on the creation of an international tribunal to investigate the accident for a week .
On the anniversary of the tragedy the Ukrainians brought flowers to the Netherlands Embassy in Kiev.
The leaders of the "Normandy Four" during the phone talks agreed the full implementation of the Minsk Agreements by the end of 2015. President Poroshenko stated that Ukraine fully complies with their terms, as opposed to Russia, which holds the hostages by force in its territory. French President Hollande insisted on speeding up of the constitutional reform in Ukraine. President Putin demands from Kiev to establish a direct dialogue with the representatives of Donetsk and Luhansk.
Assistant Secretary of State Nuland stated that the US will increase the pressure on Russia and the self-proclaimed republics in the event of the escalation of the conflict in the Donbass.
OSCE Chairperson in Office Dačić will participate in the meeting of the Minsk Group on the settlement in the Donbass.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said that it sent its comments to the proposals of Ukraine on the delivery of the humanitarian assistance to the Donbass by rail. The Russian Federation insists on the abolition of the severe access regime and the renewal of deliveries the products, medicines and essential commodities to the occupied territory from Ukraine.
The lawyers say that on July 31 the trial of the Ukrainian deputy Savchenko will begin , who already was transferred to the Rostov region.
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