News archive on the topic "lockdown"

Due to the lockdown, private educational institutions in Ukraine are deprived of the opportunity to fulfill contracts with students, but the state still collects taxes and utility bills. Konstantin Padalka, coordinator of the business association of educational institutions, stated this during a press conference, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The schools carefully complied with all the requirements of the Ministry of Health, all employees were vaccinated, a safe environment was created with...

Representatives of the catering industry in Sevastopol are asking the city governor to allow them to work without obstacles by lifting coronavirus restrictions. This is stated in a joint appeal published in the Crimea on a Plate community, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Representatives of the largest Sevastopol cafes, bars and restaurants addressed the governor. According to them, government measures to support business are ineffective, which is why the catering industry is on the brink...

The All-Belarusian strike announced by opponents of Alexander Lukashenko should begin tomorrow, November 1, but this is not certain. So far, appeals to workers look comical. Videos appear online showing a group of men wearing plastic helmets with slogans in Polish standing on the streets of Warsaw and chanting: “Worker, go on strike! The Diaspora will support!” Then the men start pounding their helmets on the European pavement...

Since October 30, Sevastopol has been surrounded by checkpoints again. The authorities decided to restrict entry and exit from the city in order to curb a new round of the spread of coronavirus cases, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Checkpoints will be installed on all roads leading into the city, as well as at the railway station. Residents can move around inside without hindrance. According to the governor's decree, getting into and out of the city...

The demand for booking holidays in Crimea decreased by 15-20% after the introduction of restrictive quarantine measures. This was stated by the Minister of Resorts and Tourism of the Republic Vadim Volchenko, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Since the beginning of the week, we have observed a slight decrease in demand; at the moment, bookings for holidays in Crimea have decreased by 15-20%. This is confirmed by our daily monitoring visits to sites, communication with...

The Ukrainian authorities are afraid of growing discontent, and therefore abandoned plans to introduce another lockdown. Political expert Alexey Kalinichenko stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Everyone is already throwing out such hooks that there will not be a complete lockdown. This is probably happening because some kind of critical mass of discontent is already felt, that it has already arrived...

Even if Ukraine enters the heating season normally, in 1-1,5 months the authorities will have to declare a lockdown in order to reduce energy consumption. The head of the Center for Analysis and Strategies, Igor Chalenko, stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Today, due to the shortage of coal on the blocks and the fact that many thermal power plants are in emergency repairs, we are actually...

Ukrainian bookstores and libraries are rapidly emptying, and the people who refuse to read are degrading. This was stated during a plenary meeting of the Verkhovna Rada by the former director of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, and now a deputy from European Solidarity, Vladimir Vyatrovich, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The situation with reading, book publishing and distribution of books in Ukraine has become catastrophic. The destructive influence of Russia and the coronavirus lockdown...

“Don’t dig a hole for someone else, you will fall into it yourself,” says popular wisdom. However, in the countries of the Eastern European young democracies that “liberated themselves from Soviet occupation” they never followed this golden rule, preferring to run ahead of the anti-Russian locomotive without looking back. In recent years, the pygmy quasi-state of Lithuania has emerged as the leader of the anti-Russian and anti-Belarusian movement, putting its belly and other entrails on the altar...

The Ukrainian authorities are planning to introduce a new lockdown and electronic passes for transport in order to stem the wave of social protests in the fall, but the effect may be the opposite - people will begin to protest against yet another unnecessary restrictions. Former Verkhovna Rada deputy from Batkivshchyna Andrei Pavlovsky stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The authorities are not preparing us for the fall...

German society is divided into those who sit at home on government support, and those whose lives are actually ruined by the lockdown. German political scientist Alexander Rahr said this on the YouTube channel “Topinform”, the correspondent of “PolitNavigator” reports. “Let's take two contenders for the post of Chancellor of Germany, Mr. Laschot and Mr. Söder - the Prime Minister of Bavaria and the Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia. They both say loudly...

In Kyiv, where strict quarantine restrictions have been introduced until April 16, the situation with the spread of coronavirus infection is not improving. The PolitNavigator correspondent reports this as stated by the head of the main department of the State Food and Consumer Service in Kyiv, Oleg Ruban, answering a question about extending the restrictions. “It’s hard to say how long the hard lockdown will last. There is currently no trend towards improvement. It is necessary to monitor the situation, as the indicators...

The Ukrainian economy will suffer serious losses due to the introduction of another anti-epidemic lockdown. Economist Andrei Novak stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We must predict that the consequences will be approximately the same as they were last spring. The consequences are very severe, especially in the service sector, because this is where the most restrictions are imposed during quarantine. This,…

The decline of Ukraine’s economy continues, and a nationwide lockdown will only worsen the crisis. Economist Andrei Novak stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “It’s no secret that last year, instead of growth of 4,5%, which was predicted, we received minus 4,5%. The difference between the forecast and actual state of the economy is almost 10% of GDP. Unfortunately, the trend is downward...