In the evening of December 30, a breakdown of the high-voltage line Kakhovka-Titan in Kherson region of Ukraine, which provides electricity supply from mainland Ukraine into Russia-occupied Crimea, caused rolling blackouts in the peninsula, Joinfo.ua reports with reference to RIA Novosti. ...
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Secrets of underground Uzhgorod
Oleksandr, a private entrepreneur from Uzhgorod city in the western Ukraine, decided to make renovation in his house to open a shop. So, he started renovation and discovered a vast cave under the floor, which turned out to be an old ...
Read More »‘Brothers Ukrainians’ became an official anthem of the Anti-Terrorist Operation
The song ‘Brothers Ukrainians’ of the group ‘Shablya’ has officially become the anthem of the ATO. Vova Geyser, the leader of the group, has recently received an official certificate from the Administration of the President of Ukraine, Joinfo.ua reports with ...
Read More »Finance Minister announced a difficult beginning of the financial year for Ukraine
Finance Minister Natalie Yaresko believes that the amendments to the Tax Code and the budget will be agreed with the IMF. She announced it during the briefing, Joinfo.ua reports. “I want to draw your attention to the role of the ...
Read More »Ukraine prepared a list of prohibited imports from Russia
The Agreement on the Free and Comprehensive Free Trade Area between the EU and Ukraine will come into force on January 1, 2016. On December 16, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the suspension of the free trade area agreement ...
Read More »National Bank of Ukraine to loan $9 bln in 2016
December 29, Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) Valeriya Gontareva held a final press conference. She said that Ukraine will receive financing from the IMF in amount up to $4.58 bln, the World Bank – $0.21 bln, the ...
Read More »Ukrainian Central Bank projects 44% inflation by the end of 2015
Speaking at the press conference in Kyiv on Tuesday, Valeriya Gontareva, the Head of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) said: “Inflation will reach about 44% by the end of 2015″, Joinfo.ua reports with reference to UNIAN. The consumer prices ...
Read More »Belarus will not cancel FTA with Ukraine
On Monday December 28, Ukrainian delegation arrived in Belarus to discuss trade issues connected with the entry into force on January 1, 2016 of the Free Trade Area agreement with the EU. The negotiations showed that Belarus is not planning ...
Read More »Russian Cossacks raided the houses of Crimean Tatars
December 28, in the village Dolinka, Krasnoperekopsky district of Crimea, about twenty five Cossacks, lead by the Ataman Yakovlev and his deputy Rohman, raided homes of Crimean Tatars, as told the chairman of the local office of the Mejlis Saniye ...
Read More »Russian ruble continue to decline on Monday
Monday evening, the price of Brent crude dropped below $37 a barrel and the ruble lost all achievements of 2015: previous minimum was recorded on January 30, 2015 at 71.847 rubles per dollar, Joinfo.ua reports with reference to Reuters. At ...
Read More »Da Vinci’s Bridge in Ice will be build in Finland
About 100 students and volunteers from different countries will travel to the Finnish Juuka this winter to build an ice bridge, Joinfo.ua reports with reference to Technologist. The hundred-meter long bridge will get a free span of 50 meters and ...
Read More »European Investment Bank lends EUR 400 mln to finance Ukrainian agriculture
On Monday, December 28, Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk signed a financing agreement (in the frame of Ukraine Agri-Food Apex Loan) between Ukraine and the European Investment Bank, Joinfo.ua reports with reference to the press service of the Cabinet. Implementation ...
Read More »Turkish Airlines opens new route to Ukraine
Turkish Airlines, Turkey’s flagship carrier, will begin flights to Zaporizhya, Ukraine, from Istanbul on Dec. 28, the airline said in a statement, Joinfo.ua reports with reference to Hurriyet Daily News. Service to Zaporizhya will run four times a week and ...
Read More »Ukrainian beauty became Missis World 2015
Ukrainian Olena Trybrat became Mrs World 2015, which took place in Shenzhen, China. Olena Trybrat, 32, was born in Chisinau, Moldova but lived in Ukrainian Izmail for a long time. In 2001 she graduated from Izmail school №1 and went ...
Read More »Meskhetian Turks flee war-torn Donbas
350 Meskhetian Turks from the eastern Ukraine have arrived in eastern Turkey’s Erzincan province where they will live under the country’s recently-adopted asylum measures, Daily Sabah reports. Two Turkish Airlines planes carrying 327 people from Sloviansk city departed from Kharkiv ...
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