Over the year Ukraine paid more to IMF than it received from it
On December 1, Ukraine transferred its last due payment to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 2017 at $169 million, while overall it paid $1.268 billion this year, Ukrainski Novyny reports citing the press service of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU).
According to the schedule of debt owed to the IMF, on December 1, Ukraine repaid 114.3 million Special Drawing Rights or SDRs that amount to $169 million. In total, in 2017 Ukraine paid 858.7 million SDRs worth $1.3 billion.
Meanwhile, …
Kyiv: separatists sent fake later to OSCE presumably on behalf of the residents demanding that Ukraine withdraw from the village of Hladosove in Donbas
The Ukrainian side of the Joint Center on Control and Coordination or JCCC reports that representatives of separatist-held territories of Ukraine fabricated a letter allegedly from residents of Hladosove to the first deputy head of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission, Alexander Hug, regarding the illegal seizure of territory by Ukrainian servicemen.
"The separatist media released information stating that the residents of the town Hladosove settlement had sent an open letter to the first deputy …
EU removes Russian-made fuel required for Mars expedition from sanctions list
The European Union has lifted part of the restrictions imposed on the Russian Federation, allowing the sale and purchase of hydrazine space rocket fuel needed for a Russian-European joint project, the ExoMars.
The November 30 decision on lifting the sanctions was published in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Restrictions were lifted specifically on operations that provide technical support, financing or funding regarding the sale, supply, shipment, transfer, export and import, …
US Ambassador to Russia: US will lift sanctions when Ukrainian issue is settled
The removal of sanctions from Russia depends to a large extent on the resolution of the situation in Ukraine, as stated by the US Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman Jr.
"Many sanctions were imposed not only by the United States, but also by Europe because of the situation with Ukraine. If we can resolve the issue with Ukraine, namely: if we come to the agreements that will be arranged for both sides, then we will get a positive outcome" he said in an interview to the TV channel "St. Petersburg". …
3 thousand people led by Saakashvili demanded impeachment of Poroshenko in Kyiv
About 3 thousand people passed on Sunday through the streets of Kyiv with the slogans calling for the impeachment of President Petro Poroshenko. The march was organized by his political opponent, former president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili, who has been stripped off Ukrainian citizenship by the Ukrainian President.
The participants of the march, led by Saakashvili, set off from the monument of Taras Shevchenko and went through the government district, chanting "Impeachment!", "Down with …