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Dutch bank lists Ukraine as one of the most promising new markets
Dutch ABN AMRO Bank listed Ukraine as one of the countries with a promising market that can replace the BRIC countries, as stated on the bank’s official website.
Ukraine was placed first on the list of four promising countries. Also included on this list were Vietnam, Mexico and Ghana.
"Yes, the country still has problems in its relations with Russia. However, the country's foreign trade is increasingly reorienting itself in the direction of the West. Ukraine is an attractive option for the …
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Ukraine won't ask the Kremlin's permission to choose its direction of development
The President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, has promised that authorities will not take into account the interests and suggestions of Russian leaders when selecting the pace and direction for the development of the state.
"Our choice to integrate into Europe will be discussed exclusively with the Ukrainian people. It's not the Kremlin's business, no one is going to ask for their permission or their counsel on the development of the state," he said in an interview with Inter TV on Sunday …
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Yatsenyuk explains the moratorium on "Yanukovych's debt"
The Prime Minister of Ukraine has cited ‘political bribery’ as the rationale for the suspension of payments on the Ukrainian debt to Russia in the amount of $3.5 billion. This was stated during his "10 minutes with the Prime Minister about unity" speech on the 5th channel, as reported by the Ukrainian news agency UKRINFORM.
"This debt was nothing more than a political bribe by Moscow to its puppet who ruled Ukraine. This bribe was to ensure that Ukraine would not have a visa-free regime or …
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John Kerry: Solving the Ukrainian problem is our main task
“The United States and Russia can work together,” said U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry. The main focus of American-Russian cooperation is the resolution of the Ukrainian crisis.
"In September (during a speech by the U.S. President, Barack Obama, at the UN General Assembly) the main issue was the Ukrainian crisis, but since then we have made considerable progress. I am now in Moscow, proving that, despite differences, Russia and the United States are able to and want to work together. We …
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Russian Duma Speaker: Sanctions against Russia are humiliating and illogical for the EU
According to Sergei Naryshkin, the Russian Duma Speaker, the sanctions against Russia have been entered into without the consent of the people of the EU. The sanctions against Russia are humiliating and illogical for the EU, said Naryshkin, in an article he wrote for the newspaper Izvestia, released on Monday.
"Brussels’ approach to modern Russia is a strategic miscalculation. Talking to us in the language of illegal sanctions is illogical and obviously embarrassing for European diplomacy," …