• Ukrainian migrant workers sent over $800 million from Poland in the first quarter

    Ukrainians working in Poland wired home 2.9 billion zlotys, the equivalent of over 800 million US dollars in the first quarter of 2018. This represents 86% of all money transfers of foreigners working in the neighboring country, Polish Radio reports.

    According to the Polish Central Bank, foreigners transferred a total of 3.4 billion zlotys from Poland or over $920 million, which is 700 million zlotys more than in 2017. Last year Ukrainians sent 2.4 billion zlotys from Poland to Ukraine.

    At …

  • Media: Ukraine loses 4 billion euro annually because of corruption at the customs

    Ukraine loses over 4 billion euro annually due to corruption. "It is more than one tenth of all revenue of the budget and double the sum that Ukraine expects to receive in 2018 from the International Monetary Fund, the European Union and the World Bank,” according to Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper’s investigation that it published on Monday, August 6.

    Based on customs and transport consignment notes, Süddeutsche Zeitung described the fraud schemes used to avoid duties. Goods brought into the …

  • Russian authorities lost death certificate of the journalist killed in Central Africa

    Russian Federation authorities have lost the death certificate of journalist Orkhan Dzhemal, who was killed while shooting a documentary on Russian mercenaries from the private military company Wagner Group in Africa, write on Facebook his colleague, journalist Maksim Shevchenko.

    “The vindictiveness of stupid authorities who did not know what to do with Orkhan when he was alive knows no limits. It is impossible to believe but they told relatives that they “have lost” Orkhan Dzhemal’s death …

  • Foreign investors flee Russian stock market

    Foreign investors continue to sell off their shares in Russian companies in response to increased tension in Russia’s relations with the West and growing macroeconomic risks, finanz.ru reports.

    During the week ending August 1, non-residents withdrew another $10 million from the Russian stock market, after pulling out $110 million the week before.

    Funds focusing exclusively on Russia sold $40 million worth of securities in the last week and $130 million in the last two, according to a review …

  • Media: Attack by Russian ‘trolls’ on Italian president to be investigated as terrorism

    The investigation into the mass attack on social networks by the Russian “Troll Factory” against Italian President Sergio Mattarella will be handed over to experts on the anti-terrorism experts, Italian news outlet ANSA reports.

    According to ANSA, the prosecutor’s office of Rome will soon start investigating the “troll” attacks on the Italian president on Twitter, after which the case will be transferred to experts on the fight against terrorism.

    On Monday August 6, the Italian Parliamentary …