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Aircraft manufacturing company Antonov receives an offer to operate in Malaysia
05.08.2019
Ukraine aircraft manufacturing and services company, Antonov, has received an offer to provide aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services at the Kulim International Airport (KXP), New Straits Times reports.The offer was extended by Kedah Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Mukhriz Tun Mahathir during his meeting with Ukrainian Ambassador to Malaysia, Olexander Nechytaylo and Antonov’s representative in Penang on Thursday night.According to a post on Mukhriz’s Facebook account, Mukhriz Mahathir FC, Antonov was established in Kyiv in 1946, and the company ...Retail sector is driving Ukraine’s economic growth
05.08.2019
Ukraine’s economic growth will continue to be driven by the increasing volume of retail trade, with more than 40 major retail projects currently underway in the capital Kyiv, Ukrainian real estate consultancy UTC has said.According to Konstatin Oleinik, UTC’s head of strategic consulting, the retail vacancy rate in Ukraine is set to grow above the current 5.5 per cent, with outdated shopping centers expected to close as several malls are modernized, as reported by Emerging Europe.The numbers don’t lie. Nord Stream-2 is aimed at ending gas transit via Ukraine
04.08.2019
The Nord Stream-2 is not aimed at bringing significant new gas to Germany or Western Europe as promoters often claim – only 9.9 bcma of the total 55 bcma, writes on Twitter Dr. Benjamin L. Schmitt former European Energy Security Advisor at the U.S. Department of State.https://web.archive.org/web/20190804072423/https://web.archive.org/web/20190804072423/https://web.archive.org/web/20190804072423/https://twitter.com/BLSchmitt/status/1156790631089483777The rest of the Nord Stream-2 gas mostly heads to the Baumgarten gas hub in Austria – the current endpoint for much of the gas transiting Ukraine. The Nord Stream-2 is aimed at ending ...russian intel sets up “vandalism” provocation in Kharkiv
03.08.2019
For the second time in a week, unidentified perpetrators vandalized monuments to fallen Ukrainian Rebel Army (UPA) soldiers in Kharkiv’s Molodizhniy Park, both times acting to make public believe this was done by the Poles or for the Poles: they spray painted the monuments using the colors of the Polish flag and wrote a curse word, also in Polish, that’s according to Oleksiy Kopytko, an expert with the Information Resistance OSINT group.Such provocations, the expert explains, are made by ...Naftogaz filed $5.2 bln lawsuit against russia over assets in Crimea
31.07.2019
The Naftogaz group filed a lawsuit with the Tribunal at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague with a request to oblige the russian Federation to pay $5.2 billion in compensation for losses inflicted following the seizure of the group’s assets in Crimea.“At the end of June, NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine and the enterprises of the Naftogaz group filed a lawsuit with the Tribunal at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague on the amount of compensation for ...Latvia has blocked the russian site that threatens the sovereignty of Ukraine
26.07.2019
In Latvia, the russian website Baltnews.lv, owned by the propaganda media holding russia Today, was blocked because it threatens the sovereignty of Ukraine, vigilantinfo.net reports.The Latvian Foreign Ministry believes that Baltnews.lv violates the provisions of the Council of Europe Regulation of March 17, 2014 on sanctions against the russian Federation because of the annexation of the Crimea.The diplomatic department said that the site threatens the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine.Mueller: russia Had Blackmail on Trump
26.07.2019
Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller confirmed that russia had blackmail leverage over Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign, nymag.com reports.Naturally, to establish that russia had leverage over Trump is not the same as to say it had control over him. But russia’s leverage clearly does constrain his independence. So what if Trump will decide to break too deeply with Vladimir putin? putin can use the means to embarrass him, at least.That blackmail leverage is a constraint normal presidential candidates and presidents ...Ukraine can export milk and dairy products to Japan
26.07.2019
Japan has included Ukraine into the list of countries that can export raw milk and dairy products to the country, the State Service of Ukraine on Food Safety and Consumer Protection has reported, writes Ukrinform.Animal Health Requirements for raw milk and/or milk products to be exported to Japan from listed countries have been published. Ukraine is among the listed countries (means countries, regions and zones recognized by Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan where exporting raw milk and ...Ukraine’s state debt grew by almost $2 bln in one month
26.07.2019
As of June 30, 2019, Ukraine’s state and government-guaranteed debt amounted to USD 80.35 billion, or UAH 2,102.41 billion, the Finance Ministry has reported, writes Ukrinform.“As of June 30, 2019, the state and government-guaranteed debt of Ukraine amounted to UAH 2,102.41 billion or USD 80.35 billion, including the state and government-guaranteed external debt in the amount of UAH 1,309.33 billion (62.28% of the total sum of the state and government-guaranteed debt) or USD 50.04 billion, and the state and ...Ukraine Seizes russian Tanker Over Kerch Incident
25.07.2019
Ukrainian security services said they had detained a russian oil tanker in the Ukrainian port of Izmail.The SBU said that the tanker had been involved in a November 2018 incident in the Kerch Strait near Crimea in which russia captured a Ukrainian ship and detained 24 sailors, who are still being held in custody in russia.https://web.archive.org/web/20190725233220/https://web.archive.org/web/20190725233220/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44c5Hj2kiNw&fbclid=IwAR2lc6UrccextUIIc7NP7lKqLW0G2c6TGGQKDp857hulhQf7WB_Xl8_yP54Office space in Lviv can double over the next 3 years
25.07.2019
Driven by IT demand, Class A and B office space in Lviv will nearly double over the next three years, hitting 378,000 square meters, calculates UTG, the real estate consultancy.“Growing office space demand, triggered mainly by the IT sector has led to a shortage of quality space in the market, a decrease in vacancies to 2.2%, an increase in rental rates, and, unthinkable years earlier, a surge in developer activity,” writes Oksana Gavrilevich, a UTG analyst.Reviewing projects nearing ...Israeli historian allows russian dictator to change his chapter on dangers of dictatorship
24.07.2019
A section from a book by Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari discussing lies told by russian President Vladimir putin was omitted from the russian translation of “21 Lessons for the 21st Century,” Haaretz reports.In a section of the book about the “post-truth” era, the russian translation omitted paragraphs relating to the 2014 occupation of the Crimean Peninsula and the initial claims made by putin and other officials that no russian soldiers had been sent there. The paragraphs were replaced ...
