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April 5 Russian Foreign Ministry presented to President Vladimir Putin "monumental" work on human rights violations in Ukraine. UNIAN studied the so-called White Paper, created in the best traditions of Kremlin deployed information warfare.

Almost a month after a pseudo-referendum in Crimea and annexation of the peninsula by Russia, Verkhovna Rada has passes a revised law on ensuring the rights and freedoms of citizens in the temporarily occupied territory. Law signed by Turchinov this Monday.

Journalists published the records of Yanukovich, which reveal his agreement with Yulia Tymoshenko to create "grand coalition" between the Party of Regions and the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc in 2009. In these records, it was agreed upon the distribution of positions at all levels, also on their consecutive presidencies until 2029.   

Full list of foreign observers to a Crimean pseudo-referendum has become public. Names of “friends of Putin” (who doesn’t stop claiming that there has been a “fascist coup” in Ukraine) will make you consider very carefully, who should be called a fascist.

The new government has already announced strong fiscal austerity measures to reduce Ukraine’s public sector fiscal deficits, which had widened to about 6-7% of GDP in 2013...

UNIAN talked with odious former PM from the Party of Regions about those behind separatist riots in Luhansk, a role of Alexander Yefremov in these events, local police inaction and outcome of the rule of the Party of Regions for the area.

Perhaps, the main driving force of the mass protests in Ukraine was unwillingness of citizens to bear with corruption surpassed in the last 3 years all conceivable boundaries. These processes roped in international companies. It’s about foreign co-owners of "Swissport Ukraine", which last year were taken under the wing of then First Vice- Prime Minister Sergei Arbuzov. It was his intervention that let both to illegally remove from management the real creator of "Swissport Ukraine" - company "UIA", and to call into question the decisions of Ukrainian courts.  

In a “War of Words” of Ukrainian and Russian Foreign Ministries, a new era has started. In exchanging statements, Foreign Offices show new “creative approaches” that sometimes have nothing in common with classical diplomacy.  

Pseudo-referendum was held in Crimea and its results are known. It is also known that international observers on the “referendum” gave their unambiguous assessment of what happened.

Ukraine terminates membership to the CIS, established in 1991 as a “surrogate” of the USSR and a symbol of Kremlin’s control over former Soviet republics. Political consequences of such step are as follows: Kiev changes development vector for good and de facto comes out from under influence of Russia that took great effort in portraying our country as a non-independent state.

Russia gets ready to settle down legal issues over Crimea’s membership in Federation. Thus, Ukraine is to deal with many issues, directly involving life of Crimeans, who are 80% dependent on it.

Crimean residents coming to Lviv region are asking not to call them refugees. They believe that they will be coming come soon to live on their native, and they stress – Ukrainian – land.

March 18, Russian President, turning blind eye to international law, has agreed to annex Crimea as a part of Russia. And hinted that South-East of Ukraine can expect the same fate.

On March 16th, self-proclaimed Crimean authorities have held a referendum, legitimacy of which had not been acknowledged by a world community. Long before the vote count, a pro-Kremlin PM of the autonomy has stated that Crimea would become part of Russia.

Over the medium-term, the agreement is forecast to facilitate both exports and investment activity in the country. Although there is a risk of short-term losses due to imposition of trade restrictions by Russia, which highly opposes...

Output reduction in Ukraine’s machinery may be attributed to a more moderate pace of growth and continuing trade tensions with Russia. At the same time, thanks to...

With more than two months left before the scheduled signing of key political and economic agreements between Ukraine and the European Union (EU)...

Brussels and Kyiv have been at loggerheads for over a year and the recent EU-Ukraine summit has not broken the deadlock. Will the fling between the EU and Ukraine that is now a decade...

The consumer price index fell 0.5% from a year ago in February. Prices continued to benefit from favorable supply conditions in 2012 and the government freezing of...

The Foreign Ministers of Lithuania, Poland, the Netherlands and Denmark call upon the Ukrainian authorities to continue...