Archive of news on the topic "taxi"

A mother and her two daughters, 13 and 18 years old, were killed in a passenger car that was hit by a moving train late the night before in the Dzhankoy region of Crimea. They called a taxi to get from the village of Volnoye to Dzhankoy, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. A 59-year-old resident of Armyansk was driving the Skoda Oktavia. He took an order through the mobile application of one of the services...

In the city of Smela, Cherkasy region, the SBU “cracked down” the dispatch service of the Russian service “Yandex.Taxi”, banned in Ukraine. This is stated in a message from the department’s press service, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the SBU, the dispatch service was organized by three local businessmen, and it served the countries of Central Asia and Europe. “Businessmen did not pay taxes to the budget and did not officially employ people, but paid...

Due to quarantine, the flow of people crossing the Russian-Ukrainian border has decreased to a minimum. Kommersant writes about this, whose correspondent visited the largest Russian checkpoint “Nekhoteevka” (Belgorod region). Taxi drivers waiting at the checkpoint for their clients complain about the drop in traffic: before the epidemic, a thousand people were rushing back and forth every day, but now there are not even a hundred. A journalist from the publication asked why taxi drivers don’t wear medical...

Taxi with pleasant associations The word “taxi” often evokes well-established associations, and, admittedly, not only pleasant ones. Yes, it’s faster, yes, it’s more convenient, but is it always on time, reliable and safe? Hardly. And of course, each of us at least once heard or uttered a phrase like “oh, and I got the driver.” And with this, perhaps...

Taxi drivers blocked the center of Belgrade. They demanded that the government ban Car: Go, the local version of Uber. This was reported by Reuters, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Taxi drivers claim that Car: Go drivers are not certified to transport people and they do not meet the strict rules set for taxis. Allegedly, Car:Go exploited a legal loophole by registering as an NGO of which passengers are members.…

The odious Ukrainian nationalist Larisa Nitsoi created another scandal over the Russian language in Kyiv. In her blog, she told how she threw a tantrum at a taxi driver who refused to speak to her in Ukrainian, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Nitsoi, complaints to the service administration also did not help. “The driver stubbornly speaks Russian in my Ukrainian. I ask: “Have you tried it?”

In the Polish city of Opole, which is twinned with the Ukrainian city of Ivano-Frankivsk, local residents insulted a taxi driver and stole his car when they learned that he had come to work from Ukraine. RadioZet reports this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. So, when three drunk Poles got into a taxi driver’s car and began to insult him, he got out of the car to call the police. IN…

Residents of Kyiv and guests of the capital of Ukraine, thanks to modern technologies, can now order a taxi online if there is no money in your account, or it is more convenient for you. On the Avangard-taxi website you can order a car at any time of the day or night. Wherever you are going, Vanguard Taxi will always be there to help you get to…

In Chernivtsi, a 17-year-old boy stabbed a taxi driver with a knife so as not to pay the fare. Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in the Chernivtsi region. On October 20, at about 4 a.m., the police received a report that an unknown person had cut off a taxi driver on Independence Avenue in Chernivtsi. On the…

At night in the Desnyansky district of Kyiv, after a quarrel with a passenger, a taxi driver shot him and disappeared. Subscribe to the news “PolitNavigator - Kyiv” on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or VKontakte This was reported by “Details” with reference to the press service of the capital’s police. It was established that the 40-year-old victim was celebrating his friend’s birthday in one of the cafes in Troyeshchyna. After the holiday he decided to go home, so...

Kyiv, March 18 (PolitNavigator, Vasily Ablyazimov) – The Ministry of Finance of Ukraine, headed by US citizen Natalya Yaresko, approved a proposal to pay for a taxi to transport the Minister of Finance in the amount of UAH 1,25 million. This is three times more expensive than the cost of the same business class taxi transportation in Kyiv, reports the portal “Nashi Groshi”. Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" in...

Nikolaev, March 09 (PolitNavigator, Anna Vetvitskaya) – In Nikolaev, about 50 drivers of various taxi services in the city staged a strike near the bus station demanding to raise the cost of the minimum fare and mileage. Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. Drivers called on other colleagues not to go to work until the management of taxi services meets their demands, reports...

Simferopol, July 28 (Navigator, Evgeny Andreev) – Crimean taxi drivers are forced to leave to work in the Krasnodar Territory and other regions of Russia. Subscribe to the “Navigator - Crimea” news on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. The weekly “First Crimean” writes about this with reference to local carriers. The taxi drivers explain the reasons for their departure simply: “I feel at home here,” said 1K...