07/30/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - The US imposed further sanctions against Russia

The US imposed further sanctions against Russia

07.30.2015 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine News Agency

Topics from Media and Social Networks

• The US imposed further sanctions against Russia and surrounding of former President Yanukovych.
• Dzerzhinsk was shelled by militants from Horlivka, there are casualties among civilians.
• The court recognized that privatization of 25% shares of "Dniproenergo" by oligarch Akhmetov was illegal.

04/13/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - Negotiations of Foreign Ministers of "Normandy Four" format took place in Berlin

German Foreign Minister Steinmeier 

04/13/2015 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine News Agency

Topics from the Media and Social Networks

• “Normandy Four” negotiations of Foreign Ministries Heads in Berlin.
• Peski and Dzerzhinsk near Donetsk are under militants’ shelling.
• Russia will supply to Iran air defense systems S-300 .
• Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation does not need a court decision to read emails and social networks correspondence.
• Russia wants to abandon the use of Ukrainian pipeline by 2019.

Key Events of Ukraine

• Negotiations of Foreign Ministers of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France in the "Normandy Four" format took place in Berlin. Ministers called on the conflict parties in Ukraine to withdraw the artillery with caliber bigger than 100 mm and tanks from the contact line. They insist on the creation of working groups on security, conducting the political process, granting the humanitarian assistance and reconstructing of the destroyed regions. The participants agreed on the strengthening of the OSCE mission. Negotiations about placement of peace-keeping units will continue. The question of the complete exchange of prisoners remained unresolved.

Ukraine at War

• The fighting in the conflict zone in the Donbass doesn’t cease along all the battle line, one Ukrainian soldier was killed and six were wounded. Two teenagers were injured during the shelling of Dzerzhinsk by pro-russian militants.

Ukraine and the World

• Russian Federal Supervision Agency for Information Technologies and Communications was given permission to read the correspondence of social networks users without a court decision as a part of  the "fight against terrorism".
• Russia unblocked supply of air defense systems S-300 (NATO SA-10 "Grumble") to Iran claiming that they are intended for defense purposes.
• Russian Energy Minister Novak stated that Russia will stop natural gas transit through Ukraine in 2019 after the completion of the "Turkish stream" pipeline construction.
• European Court of Human Rights at the Russian Federation request postponed for six months the consideration of the Ukraine’s claim to Russia about the annexation of the Crimea and aggression in the Donbass.

The Trends

• The people of Kiev, Odessa and other cities are outraged by prolonged heating season and inefficient use of natural gas while the ambient temperature is over 20°C.

• According to the political analyst Shevchenko, the main goal for adoption of unprepared laws banning the communist symbols is to cover the failed by the "Block Poroshenko" MPs voting for the law on confiscation of the aggressor’s property. Experts believe that laws banning the communist ideology could be returned to Parliament for revision, as they contain a number of legal inconsistencies and there are no mechanisms for their implementation.