November 29, 2015

11/28/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - Ukraine commemorated the victims of the Holodomor

Ukraine commemorated the victims of the Holodomor
Ukraine commemorated the victims of the Holodomor

11.28.2015 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine Agency

Topics from Media and Social Networks

  • Ukraine commemorated the victims of the Holodomor.
  • Interpol, at the Russia’s request,  detained in Rome nationalist Korchinsky.
  • Klitschko lost in the championship fight against British boxer Fury.

Key Events in Ukraine

  • Ukraine commemorated the victims of the Holodomor. In his speech during the event, President Poroshenko demanded the full implementation of the Law on Decommunisation and disclosure of the KGB archives.
  • The Central Election Commission terminated the powers of three members of the Mariupol territorial election commission, who wanted to disrupt the voting. Elections in Mariupol and Krasnoarmeysk are to be held on 29 November.
  • Ukraine, for safety reasons, closed the skies for the landing of charter flights with non-Ukrainian registration.
  • Minister of Infrastructure Pivovarskiy announced a gradual increase by 15% of freight railway tariffs from January 1 and from July 1, 2016.

Ukraine at War

  • During the previous day military actions intensified  in the Donbass, the militants are again firing at the positions of the Ukrainian Army in the surroundings of Donetsk and on Artemovsk direction. According to official reports, five soldiers were injured .

Ukraine and the World

  • Canada gave over to the Ukrainian military the means for demining.
  • Russian President Putin imposed sanctions for Turkish goods and services of Turkish tourist companies, tourism activities and charter flights to Turkey, employment of Turkish citizens, as well as canceled the visa free regime between the countries. Turkish Foreign Ministry recommends its citizens to cancel trips to Russia. In Istanbul was killed a Kurdish human rights activist . Police dispersed a rally in his memory with water cannons and tear gas .

The Trends


  • According to the official response of the Main Judicial Administration of Ukraine, during a year  and a half of the "Anti-Terrorist Operation", nine people were convicted in Ukraine under the terrorism fighting articles . Most of them had already been exchanged for the Ukrainian military or fighters of volunteer units. At the same time, in the spring of 2015 the State Security and Defence Service reported on 93 persons convicted for terrorism, and on thousands of cases under investigation. According to experts, the reason for the low efficiency is the position of the leadership of the country, who  determined the status of the military operations in the Donbass as the "Anti-Terrorist Operation" instead of introducing the martial law regime in certain regions of Ukraine which does not necessarily implies declaring a war .
  • Interior Minister Arsen Avakov announced that the salary of the Head of the National Police will be UAH 97 thousand, and of ordinary police officer - UAH 8-10 thousand, which by several times exeeds the average wage in the country. The basic salary of the police officers is low, so the management ensures the loyalty of employees with additional bonuses. Odious police officials of Yanukovych regime were included to the management team of the police , in particular, Pascal became the deputy head of police and civil society activists are protesting against this appointment. The Ministry of Internal Affairs moves the police trucks to the places of public events. According to experts, the authorities are trying to build a system of punitive bodies, taking into account the errors made by the regime of Yanukovych, using earlier time personnel of power structures and judiciary.

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