01/29/2016 Ukraine: Daily Highlights -Constitutional Court will consider amendments to the Constitution during the weekend

Constitutional Court will consider amendments to the Constitution during the weekend

01.29.2016 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine

Topics from Media and Social Networks

• Constitutional Court will consider amendments to the Constitution during the weekend.
• Experts called the Minsk Agreement null and void and urged to legislatively recognize Russia to be aggressor and to set up a new format of negotiations.
• Ukraine commemorated the Heroes of Kruty.
• Monument to one of the initiators of the Holodomor Petrovskiy was demolished in Dnipropetrovsk.

12/30/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - The Minsk agreements are extended for 2016

The Minsk agreements are extended for 2016

12.30.2015 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine Agency

Topics from Media and Social Networks

• The Minsk agreements are extended for 2016.
• Ukraine sharply increased the prices for transit of the Russian natural gas.
• Power supply to the Crimea was stopped.
• A new Commander of the National Guard was appointed.

09/12/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - "Ukrop", "Batkivschina", "Syla Liudey" parties go for the local elections

The UKROP party congress 

12.09.2015 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine News Agency

Topics from Media and Social Networks

• "Ukrop", "Batkivschina", "Syla Liudey" parties held congresses and go for the local elections.
• The “Normandy Four”  Foreign Ministers failed to reach an agreement on the Donbass.
• Russian soldier and his brother detained in the border town of Melove.
  

09/05/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - The official start of the local election campaign

The official start of the local election campaign

09.05.2015 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine News Agency

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• The official start of the local election campaign.
• President Poroshenko said NATO will not accept Ukraine’s application for membership.
• The former MP Markov waiting to be extradited to Ukraine has been released on travel restrictions in Italy.

08/11/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - Situation escalates in the Donbass

Situation escalates in the Donbass

08.11.2015 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine News Agency

Topics from Media and Social Networks

• Situation escalates in the Donbass.
• The SSU colonel was detained for spying for the DPR.
• Former President Yanukovych failed to appear for questioning to the General  Prosecutor’s Office.
• Finance Minister Yaresko left for the negotiations with the International Creditors Club.
  

07/19/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - The occupied Donetsk was shelled by the militants themselves

The occupied Donetsk was shelled by the militants themselves

07.19.2015 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine News Agency

Topics from Media and Social Networks

• The occupied Donetsk was shelled by the militants themselves.
• Poroshenko said that a special regime in the occupied Donbass might not come into force.
• Director of the Odessa Film Festival was hit by a car in front of the police officers.

Key Events In Ukraine

• President Poroshenko appointed Head of the Anti-Terrorist Center Malyshev and Head of the Anti-Corruption Centre Trepak Deputy Heads of the Security Service of Ukraine .
• Prime Minister Yatsenyuk announced about the creation of the National Employment Agency instead of the existing employment services, the tasks of the Agency will include employment and vocational training for the persons who lost their jobs.
• Ukraine  is not consuming Russian natural gas for two weeks, but only carries out its transit to Europe. Every day about 30 million m3 of natural gas is being pumped into storage, half of it is of own production, the rest is a reverse supply from Slovakia.

Ukraine at War

• The OSCE report recorded the escalation of the situation in the Donbass. The mission confirmed that on July 18 the shelling of Donetsk was carried out by the militants. The Ukrainian side published the radio interception, where the militants were discussing the directions of the shelling. Despite the evidence, the leadership of the self-proclaimed Donetsk republic threaten to destruct  Avdiyivka if the "shellings of Donetsk continue".  Heavy fighting continued in Maryinka, due to the shellings, the residential blocks were damaged, there are casualties among the civilians. During the previous day, according to the official reports, one soldier was kiled and seven soldiers were injured .
  During the battle in Shyrokine, the "Donbass"  battalion captured the IFV with the full ammunition load.
• The Security Service of Ukraine reports on the prevention of numerous terrorist attacks across Ukraine and the detention of a large number of trucks with contraband products that were trying to break into the occupied territory.

Ukraine and the World

• Minister of Energy and Natural Resources of Turkey Yıldız said that the country is not going to make concessions to Russia and will not be an average transit country, as this contradicts its economic interests. The problem cannot be solved by a simple granting of the  discounts for the natural gas. Russia is building new gas pipelines through Turkey at its own expense.
• French President Hollande in response to the Greek crisis, offers to create the Eurozone  Government and the parliamentary body, responsible for making decisions.

The Trends

• The experts say that when Ukraine signed the second Minsk agreements, it had committed itself to conduct a constitutional reform, which includes granting of the special status to the territories of Donbass and amnesty to the militants, moreover, these actions are not connected with the implementation of the agreements by Russia and militants under its control. Therefore, the introduction to the text of the Constitution of the references to the law violates the equality of the rights of citizens of different regions of Ukraine and makes the sacrifices during the fighting in the Donbass meaningless . The militants, responsible for the killings and violations of human rights, will still be amnestied. Despite this, President Poroshenko claims that there is no threat to the sovereignty of Ukraine in the proposed version of changes to the Constitution .

05/18/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights -The hryvnia exchange rate failed in the interbank market

The hryvnia exchange rate failed in the interbank market

05.18.2015  Daily Highlights  by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine News Agency

Topics from Media and Social Networks

• The hryvnia exchange rate failed in the interbank market.
• The US wants to participate in the settlement process in the Donbass.
• The General Staff of Russia demands to return of its "former" commandos.
• The anniversary of the Crimean Tatars deportation
• Obama's Twitter.

05/14/2016 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - Assistant Secretary of State Nuland will continue talks about Ukraine in Moscow

Assistant Secretary of State Nuland

05.16.2015 Daily Highlights  by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine News Agency

Topics from Media and Social networks

• Assistant Secretary of State Nuland will continue talks about Ukraine in Moscow.
• Speaker Groisman advocates for the full transparency of the utility tariffs.
• Problems at the Zaporozhye nuclear power station were temporary.
• Russian rocket "Proton-M" exploded.

05/13/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - Former President of Georgia Saakashvili headed the Council of Reforms under the President of Ukraine

05.13.2015 Daily Highlights  by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine News Agency

Topics from the Media and Social Networks

• Former President of Georgia Saakashvili headed the Council of Reforms under the President of Ukraine.
• Verkhovna Rada terminated the powers of the deputy Miroshnik.
• The Ukraine - NATO Commission gathered in Antalya, Turkey.

04/29/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - Video negotiations of contact group with the Donbass militants

The representative of Ukraine in the contact group, former President Kuchma

04/29/2015 Daily Highlights  by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine News Agency

Topics from the Media and Social Networks

• Video negotiations of contact group with the Donbass militants.
• Oligarch Firtash asks Poroshenko for protection against the Prime Minister Yatsenyuk’s team.
• The Communists are planning to hold meetings in Kiev on May 1st.
• Protests of "Right Sector" near the President’s Administration building.

04/25/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - Poroshenko attended military exercises at a military training ground in the Mykolaiv region

Minister of Defense and President Poroshenko

04/25/2015 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine News Agency

Topics from the Media and Social Networks

• Poroshenko attended military exercises at a military training ground in the Mykolaiv region.
• Recall of the Ambassador to Belarus Yezhel.
• The criminal case against oligarch Akhmetov.
• The largest earthquake in Nepal.
• Putin’s bikers began their scandalous motocross to Berlin.
• The continuation of negotiations with the leaders of the terrorist "republics”.

04/13/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - Negotiations of Foreign Ministers of "Normandy Four" format took place in Berlin

German Foreign Minister Steinmeier 

04/13/2015 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine News Agency

Topics from the Media and Social Networks

• “Normandy Four” negotiations of Foreign Ministries Heads in Berlin.
• Peski and Dzerzhinsk near Donetsk are under militants’ shelling.
• Russia will supply to Iran air defense systems S-300 .
• Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation does not need a court decision to read emails and social networks correspondence.
• Russia wants to abandon the use of Ukrainian pipeline by 2019.

Key Events of Ukraine

• Negotiations of Foreign Ministers of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France in the "Normandy Four" format took place in Berlin. Ministers called on the conflict parties in Ukraine to withdraw the artillery with caliber bigger than 100 mm and tanks from the contact line. They insist on the creation of working groups on security, conducting the political process, granting the humanitarian assistance and reconstructing of the destroyed regions. The participants agreed on the strengthening of the OSCE mission. Negotiations about placement of peace-keeping units will continue. The question of the complete exchange of prisoners remained unresolved.

Ukraine at War

• The fighting in the conflict zone in the Donbass doesn’t cease along all the battle line, one Ukrainian soldier was killed and six were wounded. Two teenagers were injured during the shelling of Dzerzhinsk by pro-russian militants.

Ukraine and the World

• Russian Federal Supervision Agency for Information Technologies and Communications was given permission to read the correspondence of social networks users without a court decision as a part of  the "fight against terrorism".
• Russia unblocked supply of air defense systems S-300 (NATO SA-10 "Grumble") to Iran claiming that they are intended for defense purposes.
• Russian Energy Minister Novak stated that Russia will stop natural gas transit through Ukraine in 2019 after the completion of the "Turkish stream" pipeline construction.
• European Court of Human Rights at the Russian Federation request postponed for six months the consideration of the Ukraine’s claim to Russia about the annexation of the Crimea and aggression in the Donbass.

The Trends

• The people of Kiev, Odessa and other cities are outraged by prolonged heating season and inefficient use of natural gas while the ambient temperature is over 20°C.

• According to the political analyst Shevchenko, the main goal for adoption of unprepared laws banning the communist symbols is to cover the failed by the "Block Poroshenko" MPs voting for the law on confiscation of the aggressor’s property. Experts believe that laws banning the communist ideology could be returned to Parliament for revision, as they contain a number of legal inconsistencies and there are no mechanisms for their implementation.

15/03/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted he had planned and carried out the annexation of Crimea

03/15/2015 Daily Highlights by the "Digests & Analytics - Ukraine" News Agency

Topics of the Day

Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted he had planned and carried out the annexation of Crimea. Yet another Russian "convoy" invaded Ukraine. Russian aggression compels NATO members to increase defence expenditure.

14/03/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - The European Union has prolonged sanctions against persons involved in the Russian aggression

03/14/2015 Daily Highlights by the "Digests & Analytics - Ukraine" News Agency

Topics of the Day

The European Union has prolonged sanctions against persons involved in the Russian aggression. Relative inactivity is observed in the conflict zone. One more Russian "convoy" invaded Ukraine.

13/02/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - Russia will not abide by the Minsk Agreement.

13/02/2015 Daily Highlights by "Digests & Analytics - Ukraine" News Agency

Topics of the day

Russia will not abide by the Minsk Agreement. Saakashlivili appointed as a head of the International Council on Ukrainian Reforms. Fighting intensified in Donbass. The Russian authorities are not releasing Savchenko.

18/01/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - Peace marches in memory of people killed in the war in the Donbass held in Ukraine

18/01/2015 Daily Highlights by "Digests and Analytics - Ukraine" News Agency

Topics of the day 

Peace marches in memory of people killed in the war in the Donbass held in Ukraine. Fighting in the Donetsk airport does not cease. Militants randomly shelled big cities of Donbass, there are casualties among the residents. At the request of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Donetsk airport should be passed to Donetsk “republic”.