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The memory of the Chornobyl disaster requires continued efforts to eliminate its consequences. A suspension of a TV host Savik Shuster’s permission to work in Ukraine has grown from a routine bureaucratic act into a large-scale scandal with an international trail. Unification of the gas price for all categories of consumers has made the “old political guard” speak up.

The European Parliament needs three months to complete all the necessary procedures for granting Ukraine a visa-free regime; 115 Ukrainians remain hostage to militants in Donbas; UAH 6,879 per 1,000 cubic meters is a new single price for gas for Ukraine's households.

Ukraine and the world community celebrated the 30th anniversary of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster. The Russian occupation authorities in Crimea banned the activities of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people. The leading Western powers are seeking to fine-tune their attitude toward the Donbas conflict, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is trying to save a good face.

Last week Ukraine, through its President, voiced its readiness to join the Black Sea fleet under NATO leadership and to set up a joint brigade the Alliance’s member states – Romania and Bulgaria. UNIAN tried to figure out the prospects for the implementation of these ideas.

Former prisoner in a so-called "Bolotnaya case" Vladimir Akimenkov has told an UNIAN correspondent in Moscow how people get persecuted in Russia for dissent, as the expression of points of view may equal extremism.

The return of Nadia Savchenko to Ukraine is becoming more real. Parliamentarians will not only get a salary increase, they will also have to increase the intensity of their work. The government’s back office is joined by influential foreigners with a reformist image.

One criminal probe was launched in Ukraine over the illegal banning of the Mejlis; 171 countries, including Ukraine, signed the Paris Climate Agreement, the wage of the Ukrainian MPs increased to UAH 17,650.

Putin's political game around the release of Nadia Savchenko has entered a new stage. The European Commission has proposed to abolish visas for Ukrainians. PACE has assessed objectively in its resolution the situation in Ukraine. France’s top diplomat did not find a better place than Moscow to urge Ukraine to grant a special status to Donbas.

On April 20, for the first time in two years since the beginning of the illegal annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation and the beginning of Russian armed aggression against Ukraine, a meeting is held of the NATO-Russia Council.

As the new Cabinet has its program green-lighted by the Rada, UNIAN has asked the experts on how the newly-appointed executive branch will act and what innovations may be ahead.

Amid all the ups and downs of Ukraine’s marathon for a new coalition and a new prime minister, the topic of the Russian-occupied Crimea was left a bit sidelined, but the thing to remember is that the oppression of the Crimean Tatar people continues. It is possible that the Mejlis, the elected government body of the Crimean Tatar people, will be banned in the territory of Crimea.

The Games of Coalition have ended with a substitute of Arseniy Yatsenyuk for Volodymyr Groysman, who promised the MPs to show them what it is to run the state. Reformatting the coalition has led to the diverse opposition forming in the session hall of the parliament. The situation in the Prosecutor General’s Office suggests that it is too early to talk about the end of political crisis in Ukraine.

One post – of a Minister of Health – remains vacant in the new Cabinet; 76% of Ukrainians believe that the things are going in a wrong direction in Ukraine; 1,323 Ukrainians declared incomes of more than UAH 1 million.

Lies have become a regular feature of Russian foreign policy. The European Commission, through its representative in Kyiv Jan Tombinski, has promised before the end of April to submit proposals on lifting visa regime for the Ukrainians. Cooperation between Kyiv and Warsaw is taking on a new shape.

The public associates judicial reform mostly with the courts of general jurisdiction. However, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, whose role and influence on public policy are enormous, needs change as well

Arseniy Yatsenyuk made a show of his resignation announcement. The process of forming the parliamentary coalition is reminiscent of what the Ukrainian political arena had already witnessed. The foreign-policy complexities may result in a large-scale error-fixing in Ukraine.

20 individuals connected with Ukraine, including the country’s president, were exposed in a journalists’ investigative report on offshore activities; Ukrainians surrendered to authorities 4,542 firearms in the past month; UAH 40,000 was the average size of a bribe in Ukraine in 2015.

The outcome of the referendum in the Netherlands on the Ukraine-EU Association Agreement will be a lesson for many politicians. The scandal over Petro Poroshenko’s offshore companies has smeared the president’s visit to Japan. Russian top officials once again resort to the stone-age anti-Ukrainian rhetoric.

Ukraine has become a hostage of the Dutch referendum – these are today’s headlines in the Ukrainian newsfeed. But it has also become – much earlier – hostage of own not-so-farsighted law on national referendum.

On the eve of the referendum in the Netherlands on the Ukraine-EU Association Agreement, which is so important for Ukraine, UNIAN interviewed a correspondent of Dutch television broadcaster NOS David Godfroid.