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| Political talk show “Savik Shuster Live” taken off the air on 1+1 channel |
09.18.2015 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine Agency
Topics from Media and Social Networks
- Political talk show “Savik Shuster Live” taken off the air on 1 +1 channel.
- The court arrested the MP Mosiychuk until November, 15.
- Radical Party goes to the local elections and excluded the deputy from the faction in parliament.
- Tymoshenko lost a case against oligarch Firtash in a court in New York.
Key Evetns In Ukraine
- President Poroshenko signed the law on issue of state financial derivatives introduced by the Government to ensure the restructuring of the public debt and changes to the budget for 2015, increasing the minimum pensions and wages from September,1.
- Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Groisman said he would introduce a bill to simplify the procedure for deprivation of immunity from deputies.
- Pechersk court arrested the deputy Moseychuk, rejecting applications for disqualification of a judge and bail.
- Temporary commission of the Verkhovna Rada on the events in Mukachevo related to "the right sector," blamed security forces as responsible.
- The Congress of the Radical Party has decided to take part in the local elections and to exclude deputy Vitko from the faction with recalling him from the parliament.
- Representatives of the TV channel 1+1 owned by oligarch Kolomoisky took highly rated political talk show "Shuster Life" off the air, explaining this decision by extremely tense political situation in the country. The show was broadcasted on the opposition channel 112 Ukraine.
- State Statistics Committee reported that the decline in production in the country was 18% since the beginning of 2015 , while compared to August of the previous year - by more than 5%.
- Antitrust investigation launched against DTEK owned by oligarch Akhmetov in relation to monopolistic position in the power generation market.
- Naftogaz loss for the year could reach up to 6 billion UAH. CEO Kobolev said that plans to sign an agreement with Gazprom for the supply of gas under the "winter package" agreed upon with the European Commission before October.
- Minister for Social and Economical Development Abromavicius said that the delay in the adoption of laws necessary for transparent privatization by Parliament could force the sale of the largest enterprises to be postponed until next year.
- The Ministry of Infrastructure don’t know how to apply sanctions to Russian airlines listed by the National Security Council and is inclined to the conclusion that it would not ban their flights to Ukraine. Sanctions will be applied only to the flight over the territory of the country.
- Fitch has downgraded the long term ratings of Privatbank in foreign currency and local currency to pre-default level of RD until the restructuring of bank’s debt.
- Fluctuations in the hryvnia official rate are minor: 21,64 UAH / $ (+0,04 USD), 24,71 UAH / € (+0,28 USD), 3,30 UAH / 10 RUB.
Ukraine at War
- The situation in the Donets Basin remains relatively calm, but the Ukrainian army continues to incur losses. Two soldiers were killed and five wounded as a result of mine explosions. The militants defiantly move heavy equipment on the territory they control, but there is no question about the withdrawal of equipment from the territory of Ukraine. Observers have noted an increase in the number of Russian troops as part of the combined forces with militants under the Russian command.
- “Information Resistance” group led by deputy Tymchuk, notes that one of the main accomplices of terrorists - Russian Railways Company is not on the sanctions list.
Ukraine and the World
- US sees the Baltic states as the most vulnerable as the object of Russian aggression which can happened similar to the Crimean scenario.
- Georgian court sentenced the former head of the President Saakashvili administration and Tbilisi Mayor Ugulava to jail.
- New York court rejected the claim of former Prime Minister Tymoshenko to the oligarch Firtash and RosUkrEnergo as it did not found evidence of laundering funds by them in the United States.
- The protesters carrying out a rally in the capital of Moldova excluded the resignation of the current president from their demands and insist on the dismissal of the Prosecutor General, the head of the National Bank and chiefs of law enforcement agencies responsible for combating corruption.
The Trends
- According to experts, the sanctions imposed by the decree of the president Poroshenko on a number of Russian individuals and companies are declarative in nature and will not lead to significant losses for them. In addition, the list is missing the main identities responsible for the aggression and the main accomplices of terrorists, in particular, the company Russian Railways. The biggest "daughters" of Russian banks operating in Ukraine, as well as the two leading mobile operator owned by Russian owners - MTS and Kyivstar - also did not came under sanctions.
- According to experts actions by the General Prosecutor's Office and law enforcement agencies on a number of Radical Party deputies in the parliament are aimed at the destruction of the faction before the voting on amendments to the Constitution. According to some analysts some deputies, controlled by different business structures could leave faction under the pressure. Leader of the party Lyashko intends to deprive them of their seats with the replacement of the following candidates from the party list .
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