All news for 5.06.2019/XNUMX/XNUMX

Candidates for membership in the Servant of the People presidential party will be checked, in particular, based on their past affiliation with political parties, connections in political circles, criminal records, participation in scandals or corruption schemes, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was reported by the press service of the Servant of the People party. According to the press service, first of all, candidates’ resumes with all materials are studied and...

Meetings of working groups within the Trilateral Contact Group on the peaceful settlement of the situation in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions “were held constructively for the first time,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This opinion about the negotiations was expressed by the head of the Ukrainian delegation to the Tripartite Contact Group Leonid Kuchma in Minsk on June 5, the press service of the President of Ukraine reports. “For the first time, the meetings of the working groups were constructive. All parties wanted...

EU diplomats approved the extension of unilateral prohibitive measures against Crimea and Sevastopol, which expire on June 23, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Bloomberg reported this today, citing a source in the EU. According to him, the sanctions will be extended for a year - until June 23, 2020. It is expected that after further discussion next week...

At the next meeting, the trilateral contact group on resolving the situation in Donbass will discuss the proposal of ex-President Leonid Kuchma to lift the economic blockade from the territories of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions not controlled by Kiev, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was announced today by the OSCE Special Representative to the TCG Martin Sajdik, Interfax-Ukraine writes. “The proposal came from Kuchma (representative of Ukraine in the TCG - Ed.), and this...

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky is not going to invite former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to his team, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The head of Ukraine announced this in Brussels, where he is on his first official visit, reports the Georgian website Imedinews. Presidential spokeswoman Yulia Mendel confirmed that Zelensky had not considered offering Saakashvili an official position. Earlier, in an interview with the “1+1” channel, Zelensky...

The incident with the mosque in Donetsk, against the backdrop of constant shelling and statements of peace from the President of Ukraine, force the Russian Federation to doubt the adequacy of the policy of official Kyiv. This opinion was expressed during the briefing by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The first days of the new administration, the new power, unfortunately, did not bring the cessation promised during the election marathon...

A Russian court put Irma Krat on the international wanted list and sentenced to arrest in absentia the activist and former leader of the “women’s hundred” of Euromaidan Irma Krat, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was reported by the press service of the Investigative Committee of Russia. Irma Krat was charged with an attack on the Russian embassy in Kyiv in March 2016. “The investigation established that Ukrainian citizen Irma was involved in these attacks...

The actions held in Turkey on the occasion of the anniversaries of the deportation of the Crimean Tatars and the end of the Caucasian War do not serve to strengthen relations between countries. This opinion was voiced by official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova during the briefing, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I would also like to comment on the actions that took place in Turkey, which were timed to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the deportation of the Crimean Tatars and...

On May 31, a tragedy occurred in Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky - drunken patrol police decided to shoot metal cans and other objects with firearms near the place where children were walking. One of the shots hit a child, a 5-year-old boy named Kirill Tlyavov. He ended up in a local hospital with a closed head injury, brain contusion, internal cerebral hematoma and...

The Toponymy Commission of Tallinn did not support the proposal to name one of the squares of the Old Town in memory of the murdered Russian politician Boris Nemtsov, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Tallinn City Hall announced this on Wednesday. “The Tallinn Toponymy Commission did not support the proposal of city council member Eerik-Nijles Kross to rename the small Great Guild Square in the Old Town into a square named after...