16/12/2014 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - Russian currency and stock markets are crashing

16/12/2014 Daily Highlights from “Digests & Analytics Ukraine” News Agency

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Former Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Turchinov was appointed as the Secretary of the NSDC. The OPEC countries aren’t going to restrain the fall in oil prices. Russian currency and stock markets are crashing. Europe insists on the strict implementation of Minsk agreements by Russia.

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L'ex presidente della Verkhovna Rada Turchinov designato come segretario del NSDC. Paesi OPEC non stanno andando a trattenere la caduta dei prezzi del petrolio. Mercati valutari e azionari russi sono crollati. Europa insiste sulla rigorosa applicazione di Russia degli accordi di Minsk.

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• The Independence Day have been celebrated in Ukraine. Holiday military parade have been conducted on Maidan Nezalezhnosti with participation of military and police units, as well as of various military technology, that after the end of the parade were moving to the zone of antiterrorist operation. President Poroshenko participated both in the parade of land forces in Kyiv and navy ones in Odessa during the same day. In his keynote speech, President Poroshenko promised to allocate 40 bln. UAH (~3 bln.$) for army rearmament during the coming three years.

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• Fractions “Svoboda”, “Udar” as well as 19 individual deputies, left the ruling coalition in Verkhovna Rada and therefore, the coalition has ceased to exist – this was announced in the Parliament by its speaker Turchynov. If new coalition will not be formed within 30 days, president has the right to dissolve parliament and appoint parliamentary elections in three months, on October 26.
• Parliament Speaker Turchynov announced the dissolution of the Communist Party fraction, based on Verkhovna Rada regulation amendments, recently signed by the President Poroshenko. 
• Prime Minister Yatsenyuk, speaking in Parliament, announced his resignation in response to the collapse of the ruling coalition and blocking of government decisions be the parliament, in particular, reforms of gas transportation system and the allocation of additional funds for the army. Deputies speculate that Prime Minister resignation should be approved by Verkhovna Rada. Mr. Groisman could be appointed as an Acting Prime Minister, as leaked on Facebook by Interior Minister Avakov. President Poroshenko requested Speaker to arrange the confidence vote for the government on July 25 and offered Yatsenyuk to continue to work until the election of the new parliament.