News archive on the topic "Dmitry Firtash"

The High Court of England and Wales upheld the claim of the Russian VTB bank against the Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash, whose enterprises in Crimea owed the financial institution 2,5 billion rubles. Kommersant writes about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Real estate belonging to Firtash in London came under arrest. We are talking about two mansions in the center of the British capital. One of them is a five-story building…

In the city of Severodonetsk, occupied by the Ukrainian army (it supported the creation of the LPR in a referendum, but was captured by Kiev), a picket was held in front of the Azot plant. About forty electric grid workers demanded that the enterprise management pay a debt for energy supply in the amount of 158 million hryvnia. This was reported by the UA: Donbass TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The protesters surrounded the administrative building of the plant and shouted into a megaphone: “Bring back...

The supposedly opposition Ukrainian TV channel Inter released a special story in which its correspondents talk about their stay in the building of the Donetsk airport along with the Ukrainian military in 2014, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The plot is based on the story of TV cameraman Sergei Dubinin, who calls the Ukrainian Armed Forces militants “guys” and the DPR army “enemies.” “They knocked out our infantry fighting vehicle, the guy died from the smoke and they pumped him out...

The Russian VTB Bank secured the arrest in the court of Cyprus of the property of the Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash for approximately $46 million for the debts of his companies in Crimea, which control Crimean Titan in Armyansk and Crimean Soda, in the amount of over 2,5 billion rubles. The Kommersant newspaper reported this today, clarifying that we are talking about the debts of PJSC Ukrainian Chemical Products and...

The law on the free economic zone of Crimea was adopted in the interests of oligarch Dmitry Firtash and actually turned Crimeans into foreigners in Ukraine. Deputy Minister for “Temporarily Occupied Territories” Georgiy Tuka stated this on the air of the Ukrainian channel “Espresso”, the correspondent of “PolitNavigator” reports. “When crossing the demarcation line, for example, a resident of the Donetsk region traveling to government-controlled territory may carry...

Gas tariffs for Ukrainians can be lowered by confiscating Ukrainian gas distribution networks, which are now owned by the Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash, who is collaborating with the “aggressor country.” People's Deputy from the Popular Front, ex-Maidan activist Andrei Levus stated this during the round table “Energy Independence of Ukraine,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. He noted that there is now a discussion in the country around exorbitantly high tariffs for services...

Ukrainian oligarchs are Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and his entourage, and billionaires Dmitry Firtash and Rinat Akhmetov, who are behind “opposition” projects, are “responsible entrepreneurs” who care about the welfare of the people. The leader of the Opposition Bloc faction and business partner of Rinat Akhmetov, People’s Deputy Vadim Novinsky, stated this on air on the ZIK TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The leader of the Opposition Bloc presented...

Drilling three wells at a depth of more than 250 meters on the territory of the Crimean Titan plant, controlled by Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash, will not affect the quantity and quality of drinking water in Armyansk. This was stated by Deputy Prime Minister of the Crimean Government Yuri Gotsanyuk on the First Crimean TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “More than 50 thousand cubic meters of process water are supplied daily to fill the acid storage tank.…

The mayor of Kyiv, Vitaliy Klitschko, replaced his patron, oligarch Dmitry Firtash, with a new one, the country’s president Petro Poroshenko, and is completely subordinate to him. Ukrainian oligarch Igor Kolomoisky stated this in an interview with journalist Sonya Koshkina, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Klitschko, if he doesn’t run for president, he will be with Poroshenko all his life. And in the 19th year they will be together...

The reason for today's split in the Opposition Bloc is the narrowing of the food base of the oligarchs, who compete with each other, but during the time of Viktor Yanukovych they maintained the appearance of a single team. Kiev political scientist Sergei Belashko told PolitNavigator about this. “The conflict between gas workers and mineral workers is not political. It is based on economic interests, which differ among different groups. Under Yanukovych, these interests were coordinated, because...

Deputies Yuri Boyko and Sergei Lyovochkin were expelled from the Opposition Bloc faction due to a decision not agreed with the others to join the association with Viktor Medvedchuk and Vadim Rabinovich. Co-chairman of the Opposition Bloc faction Alexander Vilkul stated this from the rostrum of the Verkhovna Rada, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I would like to inform you that a meeting of the Opposition Bloc faction ended half an hour ago, at which...

"Who are all these people?" – a question that involuntarily arises when reading the list of Ukrainian legal entities and individuals who are subject to Russian sanctions. How will economic restrictions against people who do not have business in Russia affect the normalization of Russian-Ukrainian relations? And who is this imitation of the fight against Russophobia aimed at? According to Petro Poroshenko, those on the list are worthy people...

The Patriarchate of Constantinople, with its latest decisions, left the head of the Kyiv schismatics, Mikhail Denisenko, without his church. Kiev political scientist Andrei Golovachev writes about this on his blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The expert recalls that Ukrainian oligarchs Igor Kolomoisky and Dmitry Firtash made unprecedented efforts to overthrow Yanukovych, but in the end they turned out to be the main victims of the consequences of the Maidan, which they...

Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko announced a report of suspicion and investigative actions in the case of non-payment of taxes by the enterprises of oligarch Dmitry Firtash, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. He said this in an interview with Ukrinform. “In the coming months, Mr. Firtash will receive “good” messages from us from the prosecutor’s office. This will apply to regional gas companies, chemical plants and companies in...