• London's High Court of Justice's decision on 'Yanukovych's debt' case will not affect cooperation between Ukraine and the IMF

    The IMF acknowledged the London's court decision on the case regarding Ukraine’s debt to Russia, but indicated it did not influence their current agreement with Ukraine, as was reported by Interfax-Ukraine.

    The Board of Directors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has stated that they are not influenced by the decision of the High Court of Justice in London in a lawsuit by the Russian Federation regarding the $3 billion worth of Eurobonds owed to them by Ukraine, as indicated in the Fund’ …

  • Talk between Putin, Merkel and Hollande: Putin demands lifting of trade blockade from the separatist republics

    On April 4, a telephone conversation took place between three of the four participants in the "Normandy Format" of negotiations regarding the settlement of the situation in the uncontrolled territories of the Donbas. Russian President Vladimir Putin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande attended. The negotiators discussed the situation in the Donbas, the continuation of the "Minsk process" [another format of negotiations on the same topic], and the "Easter" …

  • Eurovision organizers threaten Ukraine with sanctions because of Russian participant. Kyiv urges them to respect Ukraine’s sovereignty

    On March 31, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU, the organizer of the Eurovision international singing competition) confirmed the authenticity of the letter from Ingrid Delternre, head of the EBU, to Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman, in which she threatened Ukraine with sanctions after  the Russian participant was banned from entering Ukraine [which will host the competition in 2017]. Earlier, the Security Service of Ukraine banned the Russian participant Yulia Samoylova from …

  • Muzhenko’s ex-counselor: No one in the General Staff and the Ministry of Defense can solve the Donbas problem

    The shelling of the AFU (Armed Forces of Ukraine) by separatists in the Donbas does not pursue any strategic interests, as was stated in a commentary for InfoResist by the former adviser to the chief of the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, volunteer Nathan Hazin.

    “All these shellings have no strategic interests. These are not structures, not roads. It's just to keep us tense and alert. The deaths of our soldiers, all this makes you angry, and then someone will break the order and …

  • Ukraine’s Minister of Energy and Coal Mining expects to receive three million tons of anthracite from the U.S.

    Ukraine expects to import 2.5-3 million tons of anthracite coal from the United States, Minister of Energy and Coal Mining Ihor Nasalyk said.

    "Presently we have received information that we could receive 2.5-3 million tons of coal from America. I, as a Minister, just sent a letter to the State Department asking for assistance with the anthracite coal," he told journalists in Kyiv.

    According to Nasalyk, energy-generating companies have already begun signing contracts for anthracite deliveries …