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Ukrainian legislators appear to have gone on summer vacation with no sense of guilt. By-elections in seven constituencies can hardly be deemed as another victory for the country’s democracy. Meanwhile, the Prosecutor General’s Office is on a tireless hunt for high-ranking corrupt officials, both former and present.

A Ukrainian was killed another one injured in a terrorist attack in Nice, two years have passed since the MH17 crash in Donbas, 265 people were killed during a failed military coup attempt in Turkey, and 2,800 people suspected to be involved in the coup were detained.

A terrorist attack in Nice and an attempted military coup in Turkey have once again demonstrated the challenges of the modern world. Justin Trudeau in Kyiv did not limit himself to numerous selfies with Ukraine’s beau monde. Ukraine continues to fight for its rightful place on the political map of Europe.

Ukraine and Canada have signed a free trade agreement, the Government extended the embargo against Russian goods and completed the talks with the IMF, the farmers entered into an active phase of harvesting, promising to be close to a record-breaker – these are the main economic news of the past week.

Reforms in Ukraine have launched two years ago. Much has been done, but there are still too many problems, especially regarding the business environment. Ukraine’s Doing Business index is slightly above zero, and UNIAN tried to learn why.

The newly-appointed Ambassador of Ukraine in Hungary Liudmyla Nepop has talked in an interview with UNIAN of certain issues in bilateral relations, priorities, and the potential for cooperation between Kyiv and Budapest.

After six years of negotiations, Ukraine and Canada have signed a long-awaited Free Trade Agreement, which opens 98% of the Canadian market to Ukrainian products, with a promising annual trade volume of $547 billion.

Perhaps there has not been such an extensive, open and frank debate on sexual violence in Ukraine since the terrible tragedy in Vradiivka when a local young woman was brutally raped and almost murdered by a group of men that included police officers. It is important that today's "wave" not die off within social networks, and society – make its first steps toward recovery, not taking violence for granted, and building an efficient system of protection against it.

The Ukrainian MPs sacrificed their colleague just to get drawn in another round of confrontation between the coalition and the opposition under the Rada dome. Certain Ukrainian politicians seem to never stop exploiting the topic of energy tariff increase to gain more political points. The Kyiv City Council took an unexpectedly swift political decision to rename Moscow Avenue.

40 directions of assistance to Ukraine on its reform path were supported by NATO leaders; 249 Ukrainian MPs voted to pass the law on SpecOp Forces; UAH 10,200 will be the minimum penalty for driving under influence.

The NATO summit in Warsaw is viewed as the most important event in global foreign policy this summer. U.S. State Secretary John Kerry stopped in Kyiv for an inspection while on his way to Warsaw. Ukrainian-Polish relations are going through another difficult period.

Russia and Ukraine have exchanged a new round of blows with trade restrictions, Naftogaz is considering gas purchases for the heating season, PM Volodymyr Groysman has responded to “utility tariff populists,” and Rada played some "opaque games" in the NBU Council members’ selection process – these are the main economic news of the past week.

Russia, which has for years waged trade war against Ukraine, decided to boost confrontation. With another decree of Vladimir Putin having been introduced, the Ukrainian transit of goods to Central Asia can be blocked completely.

A criminal case against Member of the Ukrainian Parliament and the country’s “gas king” Oleksandr Onyshchenko has come to its climax. The Verkhovna Rada’s majority approved the move to prosecute, detain, and arrest their colleague. However, it is too early for the law enforcers to uncork champagne. They have yet to defend their evidence in court.

Acting Head of Ukraine's Mission to NATO Yehor Bozhok in an interview with UNIAN has explained in detail the agenda of the meeting of the Ukraine-NATO Commission at the level of heads of state and government, which will be held within the framework of the NATO summit in Warsaw: what Kyiv wants, and what the Allies can offer.

Volodymyr Groysman’s Cabinet seeks to prolong a ban, which has already been enforced for 15 years, on farmland sale, launching the landl ease rights market instead. Not only will it not return to the land-owners the opportunity to dispose of their property, but it may help fraudsters evade paying fees for using the land, according to experts

Rada Speaker Andriy Parubiy and scholar Volodymyr Gorbulin have different views of Ukraine’s current position in the information war. The issue of utility tariffs will most likely dominate in the new political season. The Ukrainian president’s ally announced Poroshenko’s intentions to seek a second term, launching a covert internal struggle for the right to choose a better timing to start the major political race.

Former Ambassador of the United States to Ukraine William Taylor has told UNIAN of the prospects for Washington’s stance toward Ukraine after the presidential elections, peculiarities of Ukrainian corruption, and mutual benefits of Ukraine-U.S. military cooperation.

Two new political parties may emerge in Ukraine, Ukrainian authorities promised to provide housing for 600 Ukrainian military servicemen, who live on ships, a Russian citizen was fined RUB 200,000 for a repost on social networks.

The European Union with minimum debate has prolonged the economic sanctions against Russia. NATO is preparing to take at the upcoming Warsaw summit the new measures to deter the Kremlin's aggressive intentions. Ukraine’s former and sitting prime ministers both came into a spotlight in the global centers of influence. Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan went for the recovery of the Russian-Turkish relations.