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| The main Christmas tree of the country was opened in the capital |
12.19.2015 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine Agency
Topics from Media and Social Networks
- The main Christmas tree of the country was opened in the capital on the St. Nicholas day.
- Ukraine will receive an additional US military aid.
Key Events in Ukraine
- President Poroshenko dismissed the head of Zaporizhzhya, Khmelnitsky and Kherson regional state administrations due to their election as chairman of regional councils.
- Many people attended rally in Kyiv demanding the release of two patriots-nationalists detained on suspicion of the murder of anti-Ukrainian journalist Buzina.
Kyiv
- The main Christmas tree of the country opened on Sophia Square of the capital on the St. Nicholas day.
Ukraine at War
- Number of provocations increased in the combat zone in the Donbass. Militants fired on the outskirts of Donetsk and Artemovsk and settlements near the Stanitsa Luganska and Granitne and on Volnovakha direction. Five soldiers were injured according to official reports,.
- The company "Ukroboronservis" received state guarantees for loans of a 1 billion USD, obtained to equip the National Guard by military equipment, weapons, ammunition and accessories.
Ukraine and the World
- $658 million are allocated for aid to Ukraine in the US budget for the next year the US, $145 million more than planned originally. These funds will be used to finance a program of military assistance and security, including the supply of military equipment, lethal defensive weapons, logistical and intelligence support of armed forces and structures of national security of Ukraine.
- Rallies attended by thousands of people were held in Poland against the intentions of the ruling party to limit the rights of the Constitutional Court.
- Russian Finance Minister Siluanov said that Russia is planning to launch a lawsuit to recover the debt in the amount of $ 3 billion taken by the government of former President Yanukovich after December 31. The Cabinet of Ministers announced a moratorium on the payment of all debts to Russia, including the debt of engineering bureau "Southern" and "Ukravtodor" totaling $ 3.58 billion, on December 18.
- The Venice Commission considers decommunisation law as undemocratic. Ukrainian parliamentarians were given some advice how to bring the law into conformity with Council of Europe standards.
The Trends
- Ukrainian oligarchs hold a closed-door meeting in Kiev, where the economic situation in Ukraine and options for overcoming the economic crisis were discussed. Participants set up a working group to prepare an appeal to Ukrainian society. Foreign media and politicians have repeatedly stated that deoligarhization in Ukraine is not carried out, so the meeting looks like an attempt to develop a major business strategy to preserve their capital with minimal concessions to the public through formal or informal agreement with the President and his entourage on the division of spheres of influence.
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