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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko once again declared Russia an “aggressor country” that allegedly occupied Donbass and Crimea. He stated this during a meeting of the UN General Assembly, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Imagine, 44 thousand square kilometers, 7 percent of the territory of Ukraine, including Crimea and the eastern regions of Donetsk and Lugansk regions are now occupied. Russia's armed aggression took lives...
What are the main successes and failures of Sevastopol five years after the beginning of the Russian Spring? Will United Russia be able to maintain the ruling majority in the city legislative assembly in the upcoming elections, given the conflict between the branches of government in Sevastopol and the party’s “unpopular decisions” at the federal level? How do Sevastopol residents feel about the idea of unification with the Republic of Crimea, voiced in neighboring Simferopol? About it…
Not a single problem, because of which the Maidan activists were jumping, was solved in five years - Ukraine received only war, loss of territories and wild tariffs. Ukrainian political scientist Vasily Vakarov stated this on the Rossiya-1 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Today, various sociologists say that the number one problem in Ukraine is the level of poverty...
The Ukrainian authorities will have to increase tariffs for housing and communal services from May of this year, since this is one of the key conditions stated in the memorandum with the IMF. Co-chairman of the Energy Strategies Fund Dmitry Marunich stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Tariffs will continue to rise. Of course, the Cabinet of Ministers may not make a decision on further...
The vast majority of Donbass residents have an extremely negative attitude towards Ukraine. Vitaly Tsimidanov, head of the sector for the protection of archaeological monuments of the Donetsk Regional Museum of Local Lore established in Kyiv, spoke about this during a press conference, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “When Donetsk, Makeyevka and other cities were occupied, it was very difficult psychologically, and not because I was persecuted there, you...
The head of the Right Sector, Dmitry Yarosh, the leader of the Svoboda party, Oleg Tyagnibok, and ex-Minister of Defense Anatoly Gritsenko tried to collapse the Maidan in 2014 for compensation from the administration of the President of Ukraine. Kiev journalist and blogger Vladimir Boyko spoke about this in his Telegram channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “On February 18, 2019, the freedom-loving Ukrainian people celebrated a significant date in their modern history...
The Kyiv municipal authorities will be a much worse “monopolist” of the Kyiv heating sector than the DTEK company, which previously owned it. Former Minister of Housing and Communal Services of Ukraine Alexey Kucherenko stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Today we have a complete monopoly of the Kyiv City State Administration over Kyivteplokomunenergo, over tariff setting, over expenditures, over cash flow, over personnel appointments. This monopoly will...
Five years is enough time to find out who killed the Maidan activists in 2014, but the authorities, who came in the wake of the state revolution, are deliberately stalling for time. Russian political scientist Sergei Mikheev stated this on the Rossiya-1 TV channel, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “You were simply taken advantage of. You had to be convinced that you live worse than anything in the world, that it’s worse than what you have...
In Ukraine, a number of European military equipment manufacturing companies were accused of collaborating with Russia in defiance of Western sanctions. Denis Gurak, ex-deputy head of the state concern Ukroboronprom, stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. He noted that the Russian Federation continues to cooperate with a number of companies, pointing out that Daimler components are used in Russian-made military trucks, the German Rotinor supplies...
“Powerful and passionate” Ukraine should become an example for Belarusians, Moldovans, Russians and all indigenous peoples of the Russian Federation. The head of the parliamentary committee on foreign affairs, Anna Gopko, stated this during a speech in the Verkhovna Rada, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We are not a victim of Russian aggression, we are a subject who has shown and passed the maturity test, and therefore we must...
