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In the city of Novogrodovka, Donetsk region, an unemployed local resident, a group 2 disabled person since childhood, appeared before the court, who made money by stealing metal elements of graves from a local cemetery and selling them for scrap. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte Ukrainian courts almost daily hand down sentences for similar crimes related to abuse...
A fairly ordinary case of desertion from the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine received an extraordinary continuation, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or VKontakte A resident of the Vinnytsia region in September 2014 was drafted into the ranks of the Armed Forces upon mobilization and, after completing training, was appointed to the position of gunner of an airborne landing company of the military unit field post B3720. Next the soldier was...
The Popasnyansky District Court of the Lugansk Region sentenced a local resident who in 2014 led the holding of a referendum to support the act of state independence of the Lugansk People's Republic in this locality. On the eve of sentencing, the accused entered into an agreement with the prosecutor's office to admit guilt, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, citing court materials. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, …
In Ukraine, a border guard inspector was convicted for providing “visa-free” visas for cigarette smugglers for 5000 hryvnia, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte As stated in the court materials, the incident occurred on March 20. The accused is a border guard at the outpost in the Mukachevo district of the Transcarpathian region. At approximately 22:30 he was approached by persons involved in smuggling...
The Dutch-British oil and gas company Royal Dutch Shell has inflated the hype around shale gas production in eastern Ukraine in order to raise the price of its shares. Subscribe to “PolitNavigator” news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte The head of the State Regional Geological Enterprise “Donetskgeologiya” Nikolai Zhikalyak spoke about this in an interview with “Ukrainian Tyzhden” magazine. In his opinion, Shell’s attempt to organize gas production was a positive development for Ukraine, where they began to think...
The arrest in Kyiv of the editor-in-chief of the online newspaper “Strana” Igor Guzhva may be connected with the fact that it was this publication that published part of the recordings of fugitive Verkhovna Rada deputy Alexander Onishchenko, who accused the current government, including the president, of buying parliamentary votes. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. The director of the Perspective information and analytical center Pavel said this at a press conference in Kyiv, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports...
For Ukraine, the prospect of losing not only the working class, but also the entrepreneurial class, is becoming more and more real, Gleb Vyshlinsky, executive director of the Center for Economic Strategy, writes in an author’s column on the pages of the Kiev magazine “New Time”. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte He draws attention to the alarming trend of a colossal drop in the level of trust of Ukrainian citizens in the current government, noting that...
In Kyiv, a senior consultant of the First Department of the capital's Court of Appeal was convicted, who, using his official position, traded information constituting a state secret. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte As stated in the case materials, this specialist had access to state secrets in Form No. 2 and access to classified information with the secrecy level of “top secret” and...
An attempt by a Ukrainian Armed Forces soldier to shoot down a militia drone in the so-called zone. The ATO resulted in a colleague being wounded in the groin area, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte As follows from court materials, the incident occurred on the evening of January 3, 2017 in the Bakhmut district of the Donetsk region. A soldier of the air assault battalion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces discovered in the concentration area...
Vladimir Gorbulin, adviser to Petro Poroshenko, published a policy article in which he justifies the violation of the principles of freedom of speech and democracy by the need to survive the “war with Russia.” Moreover, Gorbulin recalls historical examples when, during wars, republics turned into dictatorships for the sake of defense interests. In an article published by the newspaper Zerkalo Nedeli, Gorbulin admits that Ukraine is ready to defend its interests “any...
