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| Kasko considers the President responsible for the absence of reforms of the Prosecutor's Office |
02.06.2016 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine
Topics from Media and Social Networks
- Deputy General Prosecutor Kasko considers the President responsible for the absence of reforms of the Prosecutor's Office.
- Singer Jamala won the semi-final of the national selection for Eurovision.
- The SBU demonstrated the weapon with which the Maidan activists were killed.
Key Events in Ukraine
- Deputy General Prosecutor Kasko in his interview to Liga.net told about the reasons for absence of the results of investigation of crimes of the former President Yanukovych regime and slowdown of the reforms in the Prosecutor's Office.
Kyiv
- District Administrative Court forbid the Central Election Commission to form election commissions and to prepare for the district councils elections in the capital, appointed on 27 March.
Ukraine at War
- The situation in the combat zone in the Donbass becomes even more complicated. Last week 11 soldiers were wounded . The number of attacks, including the ones with the use of heavy weapons, reached the level of last August. Ukrainian army opens fire in response to the provocation of the militants.
- 11 trucks of humanitarian aid from the Red Cross were delivered to Donetsk .
- The representative of Ukraine at the talks in Minsk proposes to hold the next meeting of the contact group after talks of the Foreign Ministers of the "Normandy Four" in Munich on 13 February. The "DPR" claimed that the consultations will be held on February 12 via videoconference.
- Ukrainian citizens of the Crimea - Sentsov and Kalchenko - were convicted by a Russian court and sent to the colony.
Ukraine and the World
- Dutch Foreign Minister Koenders said that the Government will have to take into account the results of the referendum regarding the Agreement on Association of Ukraine and the EU, which will take place in April. The preliminary estimates show that about half of the respondents are against the Agreement. Some Dutch media suggest that the votes against the Agreement will provide substantial support for Russia and pro-Russian militants who shot down the Malaysian airliner over the Donbass.
- German Chancellor Merkel thinks that the Schengen Agreement will be in jeopardy if the external EU borders are not protected. Numerous demonstrations against the refugees were held across all the Europe on Saturday, in all countries the number of attacks on migrant camps is growing. The Austrian Government demanded from the European Commission additional funds for the refugees support. Turkey claimed that it will not close the border with Syria for the people affected by the Assad regime and the Russian air strikes.
- Russia rejected the US proposal on mutual reduction of the nuclear arsenals, justifying this by deployment of the US missile defense system, sanctions and lag in the field of conventional arms.
- Russian Finance Minister Siluanov said that with the oil prices below $ 30 per barrel, the country will have to spend the reserve funds, unless the budget expenses are reduced.
The Trends
- Deputy General Prosecutor Kasko said that the procedure of returning of the funds stolen by Yanukovych and officials of his regime will take at least five years, and, judging by the speed of the investigation, the process will be delayed for a longer period. Kasko considers the statement of Prime Minister Yatsenyuk on return of 40 billion hryvnia of such assets groundless, since nothing was returned to the budget so far. He believes that the arrest of the "family" foreign assets is a merit of his colleagues from other countries. According to him, the reforms that were conducted by Deputy General Prosecutor Sakvarelidze, were blocked by the department leadership. Kasko said that the political responsibility for the appointment of the General Prosecutor and the activities of the Prosecutor's Office bears the President.
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