All news for 16.12.2018/XNUMX/XNUMX

Ukrainian TV presenter Tatyana Danilenko, wearing a T-shirt with the inscription “Who ordered Handzyuk,” tried to ask an uncomfortable question to President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko. The incident occurred during Poroshenko’s press conference in Kiev today, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Initially, the journalist, who previously, by the way, worked for Poroshenko’s Channel 5, asked the president whether there were Russian agents in the Ukrainian special services. “Let me respond to...

The establishment of language quotas on radio and television and the adoption of relevant legislation in support of the Ukrainian language led to the growth of Ukrainian-language content. This was discussed by the participants of the round table “Ukrainian-centric regulation: the results of the introduction of quotas and the prospects for the second reading of the language law,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Thus, Advisor to the National Council of Ukraine on television and radio broadcasting, Yulia Nechyporenko, reported that there is...

Against the backdrop of pressure on the UOC from the state and intelligence services, even its hierarchs with a dubious reputation are beginning to look decent. The director of the Agency for Social Communications, Sergei Belashko, said this on air on the First Cossack channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The expert cited the abbot of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, Metropolitan Paul, as an example. “It turns out to be a paradoxical situation: those people who have never been...

Russian President Vladimir Putin refuses to talk with the Ukrainian president because he “has nothing to answer.” Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said this during a press conference in Kyiv, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent. According to him, Putin does not want to release Ukrainian citizens convicted or under investigation in Russia. “He has repeatedly demonstrated that this does not even depend on his political...

Rumors are spreading in Kyiv that “Metropolitan” Epifaniy, appointed at yesterday’s “unification council” as the new head of the Ukrainian schismatics, is the illegitimate son of Mikhail “Filaret” Denisenko. Ukrainian political scientist Alexander Semchenko talks about this in his video blog, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The most curious rumor is that Epiphany is the illegitimate son of Philaret. On the one hand, it’s a curiosity, on the other...

Acting officer arrested in Donetsk First Deputy Minister of Revenue and Duties of the DPR Mikhail Khalin as part of the investigation into the seizure of property in the agro-industrial complex of the republic worth 850 million rubles. This was reported by the press service of the DPR Prosecutor General's Office, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent. The attention of the security forces was drawn to the “procedure for recognizing the property of Kolos D LLC as ownerless and transferring it into the ownership of the state enterprise Zarya Agro.”…

The Ukrainian army's seizure of the "gray zone" near the front line in Donbass has led to an explosive situation that the West is now using to its advantage. Ex-chairman of the People's Council of the DPR Andrei Purgin said this in an interview with the PolitWera channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We are approaching the situation that the amount of weapons that are now concentrated on the contact line... Before this, Ukraine is all...

In Moscow, the police detained more than 10 participants in the trans-Ukrainian picket near the FSB building on Lubyanka Square, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The action was presented as “anti-war”, which corresponds to the theses of Ukrainian propaganda about the “aggressor country”, etc. The participants unfurled a poster demanding that Vladimir Putin “release the Ukrainian sailors.” One of the detainees told sympathetic liberal journalists that after the arrest the police demanded to name...

Vice-Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Irina Gerashchenko, known for her quarrelsomeness, dressed up yesterday for the fake “unification council” in branded items, the cost of which is several times higher than the average pension in Ukraine. Kiev journalist Anna Steshenko writes about this on her blog. “To God in Bogner and Gucci. Yesterday, Vice Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Irina Gerashchenko came near Sofia to…

Petro Poroshenko once again made a reservation, calling the new church structure created in Ukraine and subordinate to Istanbul “autofecal” instead of “autocephalous.” The corresponding video was published by Ukrainian lawyer Tatyana Montyan, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This is the second time Poroshenko has made such a reservation. This happened for the first time during his speech from the rostrum of the Verkhovna Rada, the mistake was repeated yesterday during a ceremonial speech...