All news for 3.11.2018/XNUMX/XNUMX

In the canteen of the Verkhovna Rada, buckwheat, which had become more expensive, was excluded from the menu - the chefs replaced it with a modern gastronomic “hit among Ukrainians” - millet cereal. Alexey Doroshenko, General Director of the Ukrainian Association of Retail Chain Suppliers, stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “As for buckwheat, I can say that the menu in the Verkhovna Rada has been updated, and now you can eat buckwheat there...

Even ordinary bread is becoming an expensive product for a significant part of the Ukrainian population; after the presidential elections there will be a new price jump. Alexey Doroshenko, General Director of the Ukrainian Association of Retail Chain Suppliers, stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “What can we say about bread: we constantly monitor the price of bread not only in Ukraine, but also in...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel transmits information to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko after each of her meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Ukrainian publication “Mirror of the Week,” which is considered influential in Kyiv, writes about this today, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “This scheme made it possible, in particular, to understand the most thematically vulnerable areas for the Russian president. For example, after the last negotiations between Merkel and Putin it became...

The task of the Ukrainian state is to prevent “the Russian demon from seducing and misleading society, as has also happened before.” “Social psychologist” Oleg Pokalchuk writes about this today in the Ukrainian publication “Mirror of the Week”. “The Russian demon, like a virus, never left this society. When social immunity is weakened, it depresses the body; when it strengthens, it sits on its own...

On Saturday in Kyiv, the SBU, together with the virtual “prosecutor’s office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea,” detained the former chairman of the Ukrainian Court of Appeal of Crimea, Valery Chernobuk. He is accused by the regime of Petro Poroshenko of committing high treason. Ukrainian prosecutor Gunduz Mamedov said that Chernobuk after the Russian Spring “facilitated the transition of Crimean judges to work according to the laws of the occupying country.” However, according to Ukrainian media, Chernobuk is a classic...

Ukraine should announce the creation of Crimean Tatar autonomy so that in the future Crimea will return to the control of Kyiv. The head of the Mejlis, banned in the Russian Federation, Verkhovna Rada deputy Refat Chubarov, stated this on air on the ZIK TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. He was indignant at the delay in the process of amending the Constitution of Ukraine, providing for the creation of Crimean Tatar autonomy, adding that the Constitutional Commission on this matter has yet to...

Understanding the inevitability of the implementation of the Nord Stream 2 project, Naftogaz began to implement a backup plan that provides for compensation through the court for financial losses for the termination of gas transit through Ukraine. Executive Director of NJSC Naftogaz Yuriy Vitrenko stated this on air on the ZIK TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “If Nord Stream 2 is built, and most likely it will be built, but there is a possibility...

The Ukrainian command stationed about 50 foreign mercenaries from Latvia and Georgia in the settlements of Katerynivka and Shchastya. The acting head of the LPR People's Police Department, Colonel Mikhail Filiponenko, announced this at a briefing today, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. He noted that the Ukrainian leadership continues to use military assistance from Western patrons, as well as resort to the services of foreign mercenaries. "By…

Millions of Ukrainians continue to have a positive view of Russia, as grandmothers continue to read classics of Russian literature to their grandchildren. This is the conclusion in the author's column. published on the pages of the Kyiv magazine “New Time” comes the Ukrainian writer and screenwriter Andrei Kokotyukha. According to him, Russia uses part of the money from the sale of hydrocarbons “for entertainment expenses, allowing us to widely present the cultural greatness of Europe...

Russia’s controversial sanctions list against Ukrainian figures and structures was not spontaneous, but was prepared and adjusted for six months. Ex-Verkhovna Rada deputy Oleg Tsarev spoke about this in an interview with PolitNavigator columnist Valentin Filippov. “I know it took a very long time to compile it. We have been waiting for the news that this list is being compiled for the last six months. Someone...