News archive on the topic "social protests"

During the war, the Ukrainian chain of fish stores "Jägersund" unilaterally fired workers without paying them compensation for dismissal. An employee of one of the chain’s stores, Vitaly Kukota, who is now suing the company, announced this in an interview with the Kyiv publication UNN. According to him, after the outbreak of hostilities, Jägersund initially sent workers on unpaid leave. Later they...

Today in the Lviv region, miners blocked the international highway “Lviv - Rava-Russkaya,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was reported by the press service of the regional patrol police. “On the Lviv – Rava-Russkaya highway at 36 km near the village of Volya-Vysotska, about 50 people were blocked by miners by continuously crossing the road at a pedestrian crossing, the protesters demanded payment of arrears of wages,” they reported...

The Kyiv authorities are not afraid of social riots among the population, since there are no leaders, and any protest action will be declared a Kremlin special operation. Political scientist Kost Bondarenko stated this on the NewsOne TV channel, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to him, the authorities are not afraid of protests due to another increase in gas prices for the population. “If they come out, then, as a rule, there will be social riots...

A rally against environmental pollution by industrial enterprises is taking place in Mariupol. Also, the city is expecting the arrival of the Minister of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov. Local media reported this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “People, with or without masks, took to the streets to once again express demands for clean air, water and soil, which constantly pollute the city’s industrial enterprises. Organizers…

The protest of veterans of the Afghan war and liquidators of the consequences of the Chernobyl accident is a “separatist sabbath.” One of the members of the OUN group, Bogdan Osinsky, stated this in his blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The militant called the internationalist soldiers separatists and “garbage old farts.” “Why don’t the police beat these separatist scoundrels Kaplin with sticks and spray gas, like the nationalists? Or with sticks...

Today’s rally at the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine escalated into clashes with law enforcement officers, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Miners, military pensioners, Chernobyl survivors and Afghan veterans gathered outside the parliament, demanding the adoption of social laws. The miners also demanded the allocation of 6 billion hryvnia for the development of the coal industry. Representatives of public organizations and people's deputy Sergei Kaplin spoke to the audience. “The truth is that 27...

Employees of secondary schools in Ukraine are ready to go on strike if the authorities do not allocate funds to pay salaries in full. The head of the Kyiv city organization of the Trade Union of Education and Science Workers of Ukraine, Alexander Yatsun, stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to him, in Ukraine there will be a shortage of educational subventions from September 1, 2018...

About two hundred people blocked the Kyiv-Boyarka highway near the city of Vishnevoe (Kiev region), demanding to provide their children with normal conditions for studying, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The action was organized by an initiative group of residents of Vyshneve who cannot send their children to school. In the southern part of the city there is only one school, built in 1962. The school is designed for 336 students, but...

One of the most alarming bells for the Ukrainian authorities is now ringing in the Kyiv-controlled territory of Donbass. True, they do not hear him, since they have never focused their attention on this particular problem. I’m talking about the growing miner’s riots, which the Ukrainian media are trying not to write about. Or carefully transform an event from important to ordinary so that it...

In the western regions of Ukraine today, protesters against new customs rules for the import of goods blocked a number of roads leading to checkpoints on the border with Poland, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte Protest actions are taking place in the area of ​​three checkpoints in the Lviv region, reports the press service of the regional department of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine. According to the message, according to…

The Ministry of Finance of Ukraine has reduced wage payments for education workers in Kyiv by 1.2 billion hryvnia. In this regard, the trade union of education workers issued a statement about the start of protests. The first of the actions will begin on November 1 under the building of the Cabinet of Ministers. If the demands of Kyiv teachers are not heard, then education workers threaten to stop the educational process...

Ukrainian nationalists are not giving up attempts to “saddle” social protests against the total increase in tariffs organized by the Maidan authorities in Kyiv. In particular, nationalist activists are calling for picketing the Kyiv City Hall to protest against the increase in fares. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. Nationalist Yuri Pavlenko, nicknamed “Hort”, stated this in his blog…

Today in Kyiv, pensioners of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who blocked all the entrances to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine as part of a protest, got into a fight with the National Guardsmen guarding the building of the Ukrainian government, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte While protesters were blocking traffic on Grushevskogo Street, a scuffle broke out between protesters and National Guardsmen. Details of the incident, as well as the demands of the protesters...

Representatives of trade unions are protesting in Kyiv against the adoption of amendments to the Labor Code. The chairman of the Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine, Mikhail Volynets, stated this in his blog. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or VKontakte. The protesters are also against raising the retirement age, laying off workers, and for timely payment of wages. “We are on strike on behalf of our colleagues, people who work in cultural institutions,...