All news for 12.04.2019/XNUMX/XNUMX

The Estonian Security Police (KAPO) detained its ex-employee Vladimir Kulikov on suspicion of espionage for Russia, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was reported by the Baltic publication Delfi. In the 1990s, Kulikov was considered one of the best employees of KAPO. This information was made public during the presentation of the Security Police yearbook for 2018. It is noted that Kulikov began collaborating with Russian...

Meat products in Ukraine have increased in price by 10%-12% compared to last year. The head of the Ukrainian Rural Union, Ivan Tomich, stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I think the real increase in price (of the Easter set of products) will be from 7 to 15% compared to last year. The meat group has already risen in price by 10%-12%. If we forecast for...

In 2019, the Ukrainian “Easter” basket rose in price less than last year, and the most expensive products were wine, butter and cheese. This was stated at a press conference in Kyiv by the director of the National Research Center “Institute of Agrarian Economics”, academician of the National Academy of Sciences Yuriy Lupenko, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “This year’s set of 14 products, according to our estimates, will be...

A Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group attacked DPR soldiers on the contact line, but the defenders of the Republic forced the saboteurs to retreat, and one was captured. This is stated in a statement by the DPR People's Militia Department, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “On April 11, in the Mariupol direction, near the settlement. In Shirokino, our servicemen promptly discovered the enemy group. During a short clash, the saboteurs were forced...

First Deputy Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Irina Gerashchenko, closing the plenary meeting of parliament on Friday, recalled that on April 15-19, parliamentarians work in committees, commissions and factions, and the next plenary meeting will take place on Tuesday, April 23, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. As you know, the second round of presidential elections will take place in Ukraine on April 21. Thus, Petro Poroshenko’s hopes for...

The panel of judges of the Kyiv Court of Appeal has just addressed the GPU with an appeal, in which they pointed out the illegality of detention of People's Deputy Nadezhda Savchenko and General Vladimir Ruban, accused of allegedly preparing a coup in Ukraine. Former deputy head of Viktor Yanukovych’s administration Andrei Portnov reported this on his Telegram channel, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. As Portnov wrote, the judges’ decision was made...

Two years ago, the leader of the Ukrainian election race, Vladimir Zelensky, flew to Geneva at least eleven times when Ukrainian oligarch Igor Kolomoisky lived there, and after he moved to Israel in the summer of 2018, Zelensky flew twice more to Tel Aviv. The corresponding investigation was carried out as part of the project “Schemes: corruption in detail” on Radio Liberty,…

The odious People's Deputy from the Popular Front Sergei Pashinsky said that he is preparing a draft law on the liquidation of Ukroboronprom, which has become “famous” for the corruption scandal, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Pashinsky, the problem of corruption in Ukroboronprom stems from the fact that the enterprise was closed by order of Viktor Yanukovych. Former Yanukovych administration official Andrei Portnov immediately responded to Pashinsky’s proposal. “Someone remind this military man...

The main motivation for the current hyperactivity of Petro Poroshenko, who is clinging to the presidency, is the fear that when he loses his position and immunity, his current comrades will hand him over to the investigative authorities. Ukrainian journalist and political observer Mikhail Podolyak writes about this on his blog, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The essence of the growing catastrophe is that Poroshenko’s entire five-year tenure is...

Representatives of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission once again recorded the consequences of shelling of the LPR territory by the Ukrainian military. The official representative of the People's Militia of the LPR, Lieutenant Colonel Andrei Marochko, stated this at a briefing, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. In particular, he noted that OSCE observers regularly record shelling of the territory of the Republic by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. “In the village of Zolote-5, mission observers recorded...