WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 - The United States on Tuesday targeted more Russian businessmen and companies over Russia's annexation of Crimea and the conflict in Ukraine, slapping them with U.S. sanctions in a move Moscow criticized as hostile, Reuters reported.
KIEV, Dec. 19 – Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman during a telephone conversation with of the European Council President Donald Tusk discussed the issue of the introduction of a visa-free regime for Ukrainians by the EU and the completion of the ratification of the Association Agreement.
KIEV, Dec. 18 – President Petro Poroshenko expressed hope that the European Commission in the first half of 2016 will submit recommendations to the European institutions on the abolition of the visa regime with Ukraine.
KIEV, Dec. 18 – The International Monetary Fund-supported Extended Fund Facility (EFF) program for Ukraine may fail if the Ukrainian parliament does not pass the 2016 national budget, the IMF said in a press release.
KIEV, Dec. 18 - Ukraine has imposed a moratorium on the repayment of a $3 billion eurobond held entirely by Russia, Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk said on Friday, after Moscow refused to accept the terms of a restructuring of the debt, Reuters reported.
KIEV, Dec. 17 – The Ukrainian government has adopted a resolution "On limitation of the supply of certain goods [works, services] from the temporarily occupied territory to another territory of Ukraine and/or from another territory of Ukraine to the temporarily occupied territory."
MOSCOW, Dec. 17 – Economic relations between Ukraine and Russia will suffer due to the cancellation of the CIS free trade regime for the country on January 1, Russian President Vladimir Putin predicts.
KIEV, Dec. 20 – First Deputy Prosecutor General Renat Kuzmin is again trying to blacken the opposition's reputation, this time through statements about former Deputy Prime Minister Hryhoriy Nemyria, who is currently deputy chairman of the Batkivschyna Party, the party charged.
KIEV, Dec. 20 – The government illegally changed parameters of the 2013 budget by quietly increasing spending on police and other state institutions before it was signed by President Viktor Yanukovych, an opposition leader said Thursday.
