Ukraine

Ukraine Digest: Oct. 27

Top newsCourt led by graft suspect Vovk orders NABU chief’s dismissal  Zelensky to consider petition to liquidate Ukraine’s most odious court Kyiv …
Brian Bonner

UNIAN: Klitschko wins mayoral elections in Kyiv as 99.5% of votes counted

Incumbent Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko is winning the first round of mayoral elections in Kyiv with a result of 50.6% of the vote after 99.5% of …
UNIAN

Newsweek: Ukraine wants to be left out of Hunter Biden scandal, 2020 election

Ukraine is looking to distance itself from being involved in yet another domestic political scandal in the United States ahead of a charged …
Newsweek

Court led by graft suspect orders NABU chief’s dismissal 

The Kyiv District Administrative Court has ordered the dismissal of Artem Sytnyk, head of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU), two …
Oleg Sukhov

UNIAN: Israel’s giant airline resumes flights between Tel Aviv and Kyiv

Israel’s giant airline, El Al Israel Airlines, on Oct. 26 resumed regular flights between Tel Aviv to Kyiv. Read more here.
UNIAN

SAPO to appeal against refusal to choose preventive measure for Yanukovych in Mezhyhirya case

The Specialized Anti-corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) will appeal the decision of the High Anti-Corruption Court on the refusal to choose a …
Interfax-Ukraine

RFE/RL: Monitors say Ukraine’s local vote was generally transparent

International observers say local elections in Ukraine, in which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the Servant Of The People party appear to …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

UNIAN: OSCE/ODIHR says Zelensky’s poll on Election Day creates undue political advantage

The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) says that the ‘Five Questions from the President’ poll, which was conducted on …
UNIAN

Kyiv Post reporter becomes finalist for prestigious journalism award

The Kyiv Post investigative journalist Anna Myroniuk has made it to the final stage of Thomson Foundation’s annual journalism competition, Young …
Daryna Antoniuk

Over 230 people held at opposition protests in Belarus

More than 230 people were detained during unsanctioned protests across Belarus on Oct. 25, according to the non-registered human rights center …
Interfax-Ukraine

Voter turnout in local elections hits historical low

Only 37% of Ukrainian voters, or 10 million people, cast their vote in the local elections on Oct. 25, according to preliminary turnout the Central …
Anna Myroniuk

Reuters: Ukraine protests against Hungarian actions in local elections

Ukraine’s foreign ministry said on Oct. 25 it had handed the Hungarian ambassador a note of protest for what it described as political agitation by …
Reuters

UNIAN: Deficit of Ukraine’s budget deficit almost $2.9 billion

The deficit of Ukraine’s national budget in January-September 2020 was Hr 81.725 billion, or $2.89 billion, which is four times higher than the …
UNIAN

Zelensky to consider petition to liquidate Ukraine’s most odious court

A petition to liquidate the odious Kyiv Administrative District Court, headed by controversial judge Pavlo Vovk, on Oct. 26 collected the necessary …
Oleg Sukhov

UNIAN: Gas stocks shrink by 0.1% to 28.38 bcm as heating season starts

Natural gas stocks in Ukraine’s underground storage facilities (USFs) shrank by 0.1%, to 28.38 billion cubic meters (bcm) within a week, October …
UNIAN

Ukrinform: Ukraine protests against Hungarian officials’ actions in local elections

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has handed Hungarian Ambassador Istvan Ijgyarto a note of protest against illegal political campaigning by Hungarian …
UkrInform

Ukrinform: Defense Ministries of Ukraine and Germany to hold more than 50 joint events next year

The Defense Ministries of Ukraine and Germany will hold more than 50 joint events in 2021, according to the press service of the Ministry of Defense …
UkrInform

Ukrinform: Zelensky’s poll – Most Ukrainians support reduction in number of MPs to 300

Most Ukrainian citizens support the idea of reducing the number of lawmakers from 450 to 300, according to an all-Ukrainian poll entitled “Five …
UkrInform
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