All news for 15.12.2021/XNUMX/XNUMX

The temporary chairman of the board of Ukrzaliznytsia, Alexander Kamyshin, who was appointed to his post by decision of the Cabinet of Ministers in August, and had previously had nothing to do with the railway, stops funding for ongoing repairs in order to thus increase the profitability of the company and remain in his post. Economist Viktor Medved stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. "In a new way...

The hope of overcoming corruption by introducing foreign members into the supervisory boards of state-owned companies failed due to the corruption of the foreigners themselves. Economist Ruslan Osipenko stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “What hope was there? The ideology was as follows: foreigners have minimal involvement in corruption in Ukraine due to the lack of corrupt connections. But, as practice has shown,...

Ukrzaliznytsia has increased tariffs for freight transportation, and this will affect industries that use the railway and will lead to a delay in the development of the entire economy. Economist Ruslan Osipenko stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Now, due to the disorganization of horizontal and vertical connections between ministries and departments, each department acts as a separate “fief” of feudal times. It…

Ukraine does not consider it necessary to invest in transit capacities, since it is unknown whether gas transit will continue. Sergei Makeogon, General Director of GTS Operator of Ukraine LLC, stated this in a conversation on the First Business TV Channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We do not invest in upgrading equipment that will not be used if there is no transit. We invest only in those compressor stations…

In Kosovo Ferizaj, formerly called Urosevac, the anniversary of the only shopping center in the region that fundamentally does not sell Serbian-made goods was celebrated. This was reported by EkonomiaOnline, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. At the celebration of the anniversary of the Plus Center shopping center in Ferizay, the owner of the Meka company, Burim Pirai, announced that his company, part of the Besa-besa group, has the slogan “I don’t buy...

European courts operate with the concepts of “energy solidarity” to make anti-Russian decisions, although there is no such norm in any international document. The General Director of the National Energy Security Fund, Konstantin Simonov, stated this at the Valdai Club site, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “When this summer the European Court made another decision on the OPAL gas pipeline, again returning it to 50 percent...

In many respects, Europe and the United States have lagged behind rapidly growing richer Russia, to which emigrants have begun to return en masse. Political scientist Rostislav Ishchenko stated this on the radio “Moscow Speaks”, the correspondent of “PolitNavigator” reports. “The Russia of 1998 and 2018 are completely different states in terms of welfare, and now I don’t even know who and who I should emulate...

The propaganda TV channel “Dom”, launched by Vladimir Zelensky’s team at the expense of budget funds, which was initially designed to broadcast for the purpose of information processing of residents of Crimea and Donbass, became a platform for political PR of the Ukrainian president. Deputy, former head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, nationalist historian Vladimir Vyatrovich stated this during a meeting of the Verkhovna Rada, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Home” practically does not broadcast on...

Russia itself set an example for Ukraine and other post-Soviet countries by allowing the dismantling of a large number of monuments from the communist period after the collapse of the USSR. Olga Kalugina, Doctor of Art History, Chief Researcher at the Russian State University for the Humanities, stated this on air on OTR, as reported by the PolitNavigator correspondent. “With this (demolition of monuments - ed.) we launched everything that is now happening in Ukraine and in the neighboring and...

The National Army of Moldova received today the second tranche of military equipment from the US government. The cargo was delivered by an American military transport aircraft. This was reported by the Noi website, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This is not the last delivery. The entire shipment will be delivered in several parts before the end of this year, and then distributed to military units that participate in international peacekeeping operations, including...