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For lack of money every region of Ukraine to fire 7,000 doctors

In Kiev, journalists are required to call militia "Russian aggressors" rather than "terrorists and bandits”

It was the President Poroshenko who played the decisive role in the fact that on May 12, after two years of investigating the case, the Kiev Shevchenko district court refused to recognise Russia as an aggressor against Ukraine. It was announced by Stanislav Batrin, the chairman of the public movement "Open Ukraine” and the head of the project "Open Court”, who had initiated this trial. According to him, it was on February 9 when the court received a fax from the administration of President, signed by Boris Lozhkin and requesting to postpone the hearing of the case ‘in order to create the legal position of giving some explanations’. ‘Further on, the president's position was clearly formulated, he asked to dismiss the application for establishing the fact of Russia’s armed aggression,’ said Stanislav Batrin, noting that the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine had also played a certain role, refusing to provide the court with evidence of the "Russian...

Social opinion 20.05.16 19:52

Ukrainian special services received database of journalists accredited in DPR

The site "Peacemaker", supervised by the Ukrainian security forces, where the personal data of the writer Olesya Buzina were published the day before his murder, has acquired a database with the names of the foreign journalists accredited in the DPR. ‘All the information is passed, for analysis and investigation, to the SBU, the Interior Ministry and other competent services of Ukraine,’ said Anton Gerashchenko, a MP of the Verkhovnaya Rada and one of the “Peacemaker” curators. Sergey Belous, a reporter living in Serbia, who, during the fighting, worked in the DPR and became famous for reporting under the pseudonym John Trust, believes the situation with the publication of the DPR base at the "Peacemaker" is extremely alarming. This does not only violates the right to privacy of personal data, but, in terms of repression in Ukraine, is a threat to journalists. Having downloaded the DPR database from the "Peacemaker", Belous notes that it is ‘somewhat out-of-date’....

Social opinion 15.05.16 01:07

Seizure of Kiev-Pechersk Lavra announced in Verkhovnaya Rada

Yesterday's appeal of the Verkhovnaya Rada to the Patriarch of Constantinople on the need to recognize the Ukrainian Church independent from the Moscow Patriarchate will allow for the capture of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra which is run by the Russian Church. It was announced from the rostrum of the Verkhovnaya Rada by Anna Gopko, a MP from Lvov and the head of the Foreign Affairs Committee. 'Our appeal to the Ecumenical Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew requesting autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church is, in fact, the demand to cancel the decision of 1686 when our Kiev Church was passed under Moscow. For three centuries we have not had our autocephalous status and we hope that during...

Social opinion 17.06.16 23:29

Poll: Majority of Ukraine for peaceful solution to conflict in Donbass

Most residents of Ukraine surveyed by sociologists believe that the conflict in the east of Ukraine should be resolved by international peace negotiations. It is evidenced by results of a study carried out by the Kiev International Institute of Sociology, reports The Politnavigator. During the poll, answering the question "What, in your opinion, is the most appropriate way out of the current military conflict in Donbass ?", 66.7% of respondents chose "The continuation of international negotiations to the complete settlement". The option "Activation of hostilities, an offensive until the complete liberation of Donbass" was chosen by 19.6% of respondents. Another 13.7% of respondents could...

Social opinion 16.06.16 03:05

Poll: Minsk peace most supported in DPR and LPR, least in Kiev

Different regions of Ukraine show different attitudes to the Minsk format of negotiations. It is evidenced by the results of the sociological research "12 Steps to the peace: restoration of peace, status of the region and security" represented by the public initiative "Restoration of Donbass”. On the territory of Donbass, uncontrolled by the Kiev authorities, it is supported by 57% of the respondents, in the rest of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, as well as in the Kharkov region, by 51.4%, and in the south by 47%. In these regions, respectively, 29%, 30.9% and 34.2% of the respondents spoke against the support of the Minsk format. At the same time, in the west of the country, 51.1%...

Social opinion 17.06.16 05:04

Writer supporting Maidan called to flood EU with Ukrainian migrants

The Ukrainian writer Yuri Andrukhovych encouraged the Ukrainians to give up their homeland after the receipt of visa-free regime and leave en masse for the European Union. Andrukhovych said it in an interview with the channel 112. 'The fact that the presence of Ukrainian themes is gradually increasing in Europe is clearly a positive development. I would also advise the Ukrainian people to take maximum advantage of visa-free regime, which soon will come, and leave en masse. So that Ukrainian migrants created a real problem for the EU. So that there were hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians. Then we will be invited to the EU,’ the writer says. 'This is the case of Portugal. In 1993...

Social opinion 10.05.16 05:46