Poroshenko Has Several Candidates For Central Bank Governor
Poroshenko Has Several Candidates For Central Bank Governor.
Poroshenko Has Several Candidates For Central Bank Governor.
Trump Urges Ukraine And Russia To Make Peace.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said today the country will move its Victory Day celebration one day earlier to May 8th instead of the 9th when celebrated by the Russian Federation. Russia historically has marked the end of the war a day later than Europe over feelings it was not sufficiently…
American Secretary of State Tillerson and Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov will meet soon in Washington to discuss the situation in Syria and in East Ukraine. “On Ukraine, the sides will discuss the need to stop the violence in eastern Ukraine and resolve the conflict through the full implementation of the…
At a recent meeting of the U.N. the Ukrainian delegation to the United Nations discussed the situation in the occupied territories of Georgia (Abkhazia and South Ossetia). The permanent representative of Ukraine to the U.N. Volodymyr Yelchenko invited the members of Security Council to express the positions of their…
A Soviet monument in Kyiv, the Arch of the Friendship of Nations, was in the process of being painted the rainbow colors of the LGBT movement when conservative protestors showed up and halted the process. The event was supposed to highlight Ukraine’s new-found willingness to support EU priorities as it…
February, 2017: My Airplane flies over Boryspil airport in Kyiv. I see absolute white from the porthole. It’s snowing… Quiet holds over Kyiv. It’s ice-cold outside. -23 F. I thought I was well prepared for the Kiev voyage, but I was wrong. My ordinary coat is not warm enough…
Russia Unveils New Bill to Transform Crimea Into Tax Haven.
The previous governor of the Ukrainian central bank, Valeria Gontareva, resigned recently in the face of death threats, and other obstruction of her reform efforts. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Develeopment, or EBRD, has backed Volodymyr Lavrenchuk, the head of Raiffeisen’s (RBIV.VI) Ukrainian unit, to replace her and continue…