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"DPR" terrorist are ranked third in the list of the world’s most active illegal armed groups, A 3-4-magnitude earthquake tickled Ukraine, 50.8% of Ukraine’s households are reported prepared for the heating season, Ukrainian Paralympic athletes will receive a total of $3 million in prize money.

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine deems the newly elected Russian State Duma as illegitimate. Petro Poroshenko used the platform of the UN General Assembly Session not only to convey his vision of the situation to the international community but also to hold bilateral meetings with leaders of various countries. A Trilateral contact group has made another attempt to put an end to the Donbas conflict.

Kyiv and London have a long history of relations, which can be filled with more content. A famous grandson of a famous grandfather has told UNIAN of what Brexit means for Ukraine.

Petro Poroshenko has used the platform of a YES conference in Kyiv to present the current position of the Ukrainian authorities. Volodymyr Groysman pledged an honest budget for 2017, adding that he was ready to prolonged battles in Parliament for the adoption of the country’s main fiscal document. Yuriy Lutsenko showed determination, and not only in his words.

Ukraine received $1 billion in a third loan tranche from the IMF, Paralympic Team Ukraine won a record total of 117 medals in Rio, Ukraine’s defense budget in 2017 will amount to UAH 129 billion.

Foreign ministers of France and Germany visited Kyiv and Donbas. Ukraine is boosting its efforts in a campaign for non-recognition of the outcome of the elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation based on the organization of voting in the occupied Crimea. The EU is in a state of crisis, according to its political leaders. 

Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksandr Turchynov in an interview with UNIAN has told how in 2014 he managed to secure an effective majority of votes in the Verkhovna Rada, how he assessed the first wave of mobilization according to the number of boots in storages, and why Ukraine in its confrontation with Russia should rely solely on itself.

Petro Poroshenko has outlined the country's current priorities in a traditional presidential address to the Rada. MP Serhiy Leshchenko has realized in full that property is not only comfort, but also a responsibility. Kyiv region Governor Maksym Melnychuk has vanished shortly after being fired from his post.

Four Crimean Tatars were sentenced in Russia on trumped up charges to five and seven years in prison, 36% of Ukrainians know nothing about the EU assistance to Ukraine; UAH 7.5 million was the price of MP Serhiy Leshchenko’s new apartment in Kyiv center.

Rapprochement with the Visegrad Four not only creates new opportunities for Ukraine but also forces the government to be more flexible in dealing with the EU. Normandy Four participants in bilateral consultations are trying to revive the negotiation process. Ukraine strengthens its independence of Russia’s gas supplies.

Today’s address of President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko to the Verkhovna Rada was not fundamentally different from the previous two. But there was no place in it for a few topics, on which the Head of State chose to remain silent.

Ukraine is not a member of G20. But in 2016, the Ukrainian issue is repeatedly being raised on the sidelines of the G20 Summit.

In an interview with UNIAN, a Russian satirist and legendary journalist Viktor Shenderovich explains how the Russian society and the Russian media has changed over the past 16 years. He has come up with a rather disappointing forecast for Ukraine: Putin will continue to torment our country, in order to embellish the internal problems in Russia against this background.

The Ukrainian national currency, hryvnia, has turned 20; 498 people, of whom 347 are civilians, are   missing in Donbas; 2.5 million doses of anti-TB vaccine have been received by Ukraine.

Ihor Rainin has taken over the presidential administration, while his predecessor Borys Lozhkin remains in Poroshenko’s orbit. Yuriy Lutsenko has declared the official version of Ilovaysk tragedy and announced the upcoming moves to deprive more MPs of parliamentary immunity. The fire at the headquarters of Inter TV channel will almost inevitably result in political consequences.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko vetoed the law “On amnesty in 2016”. This as an expected decision – even at the early stages, there were rumors at Bankova Street that the Ukrainian leader will go for such step: the bill was drafted very poorly.

Provocative statements by the Russian leadership saw no adequate response from the Ukrainian legislators. The topic of e-declarations of senior officials is more about PR today than pragmatism. Competition between law enforcement agencies has risen to a new level.

Seven people were detained by Russian security forces on charges of “plotting sabotage” in the occupied Crimea, Ukraine ranked 45th in medal standings as half of the Rio Olympics has passed, the Ukrainian Cabinet has allocated UAH 450 million for hosting Eurovision 2017.

Russia once again uses August to strengthen its position in the international arena. The meeting of Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan in St. Petersburg resulted mostly in promises rather than concrete actions. The U.S. presidential campaign saw another scandal unfolding.

Former minister of economy of the Russian Federation has told in an interview with UNIAN, how much the economy of the Russian Federation is affected by sanctions and Russia’s retaliatory countermeasures, about Donbas as a "suitcase without a handle" and the feasibility of abolishing the so-called “Crimean Federal District”.