01/03/2016 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - Bellingcat Group narrowed number of suspects in downing of MH-17 to 20 people

Bellingcat Group narrowed number of suspects in downing of MH-17 to 20 people

01.03.2016 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine

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• Bellingcat Group narrowed number of suspects in downing of MH-17 to 20 people.
• Relative calm came to the combat zone in the Donbass.
• Kyiv wine factory rename “Soviet champagne” to "Sovetovskoe" within the requirements of de-communisation bill.

11/15/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - The second round of mayoral elections in Ukraine

11.15.2015 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine Agency

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• The second round of mayoral elections in Ukraine.
• The G20 summit opened in Antalya, Turkey.
• Tension increases in the combat zone in Donbass.

08/14/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - Civil-military district administrations established in the areas of ​​Donetsk and Lugansk regions close to front line

Civil-military district administrations established in the areas of Donbass close to front line

08.14.2015 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine News Agency

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• Civil-military district administrations established in the areas of ​​Donetsk and Lugansk regions close to front line.
• Minister of Finance Yaresko talks with creditors’ club continue.
• General Prosecutor's Office opened a criminal case against the head of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau Sytnik for corruption.
• Gazprom increased its claims to Ukraine for not consumed gas.

08/13/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - A secret decision of the NSDC to strengthen the state security came into effect

A secret decision of the NSDC to strengthen the state security came into effect

08.13.2015 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine News Agency

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• A secret decision of the NSDC to strengthen the state security came into effect.
• General Prosecutor Shokin changed the structure of the agency, the competition is announced for the prosecutors positions.

08/11/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - Situation escalates in the Donbass

Situation escalates in the Donbass

08.11.2015 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine News Agency

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• Situation escalates in the Donbass.
• The SSU colonel was detained for spying for the DPR.
• Former President Yanukovych failed to appear for questioning to the General  Prosecutor’s Office.
• Finance Minister Yaresko left for the negotiations with the International Creditors Club.
  

08/09/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - Prime Minister Yatsenyuk promises the personnel purges in the Cabinet in September

Prime Minister Yatsenyuk promises the personnel purges in the Cabinet in September

08.09.2015 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine News Agency

Topics from Media and Social Networks

• Prime Minister Yatsenyuk promises the personnel purges in the Cabinet in September.

• The situation is escalating in the Donbass, many casualties among military and civilians.

06/04/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - Annual message of President Poroshenko to the Parliament

President Poroshenko's annual message to the Parliament

06.04.2015 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine News Agency

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• Annual message of President Poroshenko to the Parliament.
• The trial of Pukach, accused of the murder of Gongadze.
• Dynamo won the Ukraine Football Cup.
• The crashes of Russian military aircrafts.

05/10/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - Negotiations of Putin and Merkel in Moscow on the crisis in Ukraine

President Putin and Chancellor Merkel

05.10.2015 Daily Highlights  by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine News Agency

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• Negotiations of Putin and Merkel in Moscow on the crisis in Ukraine.
• Ukraine celebrated Mother's Day.
• Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine estimated the losses in the Donbass at $ 350 billion.
• Russia demands from Ukraine security guarantees for their "convoys".

04/30/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - The Court of Vienna refused to extradite oligarch Firtash to the United States

President Poroshenko and Kyiv Mayor Klitschko

04/30/2015 Daily Highlights  by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine News Agency

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• The Court of Vienna refused to extradite oligarch Firtash to the United States.
• Firtash admitted to finance Poroshenko and Klitschko election campaigns.
• Nobody found guilty in the conflict between the “Right Sector” and the Armed Forces.
• Ukrainian deputy Savchenko was returned to Moscow detention center.
• Putin agrees to deploy peacekeeping forces in the Donbass.

04/27/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - EU-Ukraine summit held

EC President Juncker, President  Poroshenko and Chairman of the Council of Europe Tusk

04/27/2015 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine News Agency

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• EU-Ukraine summit held.
• The hot water supply will be cut off in Kiev because of the Kyivenergo debts .
• Poroshenko promised to apply for membership in the EU in 5 years.
• Tension grew in the Donbass again, the militants are using heavy artillery and MLRS.

04/17/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - US paratroopers arrived in Lviv

US paratroopers arrived in Lviv

04/17//2015 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine News Agency

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• US paratroopers arrived in Lviv.
• Demolition of monuments to Lenin in Donbas and Kharkov.
• Akhmetov still the richest man in Ukraine.
• OSCE sees "third power" in the Donbass.

04/14/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States recalled

Foreign Minister Klimkin

04/14/2015 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine News Agency

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• Bigger salaries for Ukrainian MPs.
• Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States recalled.
• Head of President’s Administration Lozhkin wants to make the oligarchs "share".
• Issue of lifting the moratorium on land sales.
• Impeachment of the Czech Republic President.
• Fires in Russia.
• The head of Ukrspetszem state enterprise arressted.

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

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• “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.

04/05/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - The leader of “Right Sector” party Yarosh became an adviser to the Chief of General Staff

The Leader of "Right Sector" Yarosh and the Chief of General Staff Muzhenko

04/05/2015 Daily Highlights by the "Digests & Analytics - Ukraine" News Agency

Topics from the Media and Social Networks

• The leader of “Right Sector” party Yarosh became an adviser to the Chief of General Staff.
• Poroshenko scared of armed Ukrainians.
• Prime Minister Yatsenyuk boasted residues on Treasury account.
• The growth of utility tariffs.
• The President is trying to guide the work of the Constitutional Commission.
• Ukrainian Mariya Muzychuk became women’s world chess champion.
• Catholics celebrate Easter.
• Large Hadron Collider is working again.

04/04/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - Soros called on Europe to shift the focus from Greece to Ukraine

Billionaire George Soros

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

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• Poroshenko gave another TV interview.
• Soros called on Europe to shift the focus from Greece to the Ukraine.
• The government wants to ban communist ideology before May 9.
• Car registration authority will be completely reorganized and shrinked.
• Head of Traffic police (GAI) of Ukraine dismissed, the chief of GAI of Kiev detained.
• Head of State Financial Inspection, who revealed financial abuse in government, dismissed.

29/03/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - Prime-minister Yatseniuk demonstrates unity with the president

Prime-minister Yatseniuk and president Poroshenko

03/29/2015 Daily Highlights by the "Digests & Analytics - Ukraine" News Agency

Topics of the Media and Social Networks

• Prime-minister Yatseniuk demonstrates unity with the president.
• Daylight saving time for Ukraine and the occupied territories.
• Russia pumps Donbass with arms and mercenaries.
• Terrorist attacks against volunteers in Odessa.
• Last March snow.
• Putin defiantly recognize Palestine with its capital in East Jerusalem.
• President's wife photos in the train was promoted by internet bots in social networks.

22/03/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - Another conflict around "Ukrnafta" grows

03/22/2015 Daily Highlights by the "Digests & Analytics - Ukraine" News Agency

Topics of the Day

Another conflict around "Ukrnafta" grows. The murder of the State Security Service of Ukraine’ officer in Volnovakha solved. The shooting war in the Donbas has not been ceased.

05/03/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights - Ukraine withdraws heavy weapons from the front line

05/03/2015 Daily Highlights by the "Digests & Analytics - Ukraine" News Agency

Topics of the day

Ukraine withdraws heavy weapons from the front line. Verkhovna Rada has increased the size of Ukrainian Armed Forces to 250 thousand servicemen. Foreign exchange reserves fell to the lowest 11-year level.

02/03/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights -Deputy of Verkhovna Rada Savchenko became a Hero of Ukraine

03/02/2015 Daily Highlights  by the "Digests & Analytics - Ukraine" News Agency

Topics of the Day

The Verkhovna Rada approved government's changes to the budget and pension laws. Deputy of Verkhovna Rada Savchenko became a Hero of Ukraine. Ukraine will not pay for Russian gas supplies to the rebels in Donbass.

01/03/2015 Ukraine: Daily Highlights -Moscow police detained the Verkhovna Rada deputy Goncharenko

03/01/2015 Daily Highlights by the "Digests & Analytics - Ukraine" News Agency

Topics of the day

Moscow police detained the Verkhovna Rada deputy Goncharenko at the rally in memory of murdered Russian opposition leader Nemtsov. DNR and LNR rebels do not comply with ceasefire regime in Donbass.