Week in numbers

0% of the population controlled by Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Lugansk regions would like to live in the so-called "LPR" and "DPR," five fugitive Ukrainian ex-officials got their claims satisfied in court in the EU regarding the freeze of their assets, 177 deputies, including those who are in fact millionaires received compensation from the budget for accommodation in the capital city of Kyiv.

0% of the population in the areas under Ukrainian control in Donetsk and Luhansk regions would like to live in the so-called "LPR" and "DPR," said a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology of NAS of Ukraine, Iryna Bekeshkina.

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One Russian Su-34 bomber violated Turkey’s airspace, foreign media reported. Turkish Air Force is put on full alert. The Russian Defense Ministry denies any violations. At the same time, the Pentagon confirmed that the Russian military aircraft violated the airspace of a NATO member state.

Ukraine’s economy may grow 1.1% in 2016, according to the forecast of the National Bank of Ukraine.

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Restrictions on the Schengen agreement can be introduced for two years if the EU countries adopt a corresponding decision, foreign media reported.

Decline of the Russian economy amounted to 3.7% in 2015, according to the Russian media. Earlier, the IMF lowered its forecast for the fall of the Russian economy by 0.6%, predicting the GDP to fall by 1%.

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4 million people can be affected by Zika virus worldwide, the World Health Organization forecast, according to foreign media. As of today, cases of infection have been recorded in 23 countries.

Five allies of fugitive Ukrainian ex-president Viktor Yanukovych – ex-Prime Minister Mykola Azarov and his son, former Energy Minister Eduard Stavitsky, former head of the Presidential Administration Andriy Klyuyev and former Deputy Prime Minister Serhiy Arbuzov – won in the EU court their claims over their earlier frozen assets.

Six Ukrainian companies have filed lawsuits against Russia regarding the protection of their property in the occupied Crimea, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. At the moment, the claims are pending before the Court of Arbitration inThe Hague.

The Ukrainian MPs have made seven attempts to include in the Rada’s agenda the "visa waiver amendments," but to no avail.

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14% of Ukrainians have noted the political will of the representatives of the Ukrainian authorities to overcome corruption, according to the results of the social study of the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology.

25 state-owned enterprises should be the object of large-scale privatization in Ukraine in 2016, Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine Aivaras Abromavicius said.

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30 people were killed on the eastern coast of the U.S. in Jonas snow storm, foreign media reported.

$35.18 a barrel was the price of Brent crude oil at the ICE stock exchange, foreign media reported.

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42% of Russians agree that there is an ongoing "quiet anti-constitutional coup" in their country, according to the poll conducted by Russia's Levada Center late December 2015.

Ukraine was placed 44th among 180 countries on the  2016 Environmental Performance Index (EPI), according to foreign media. Nine factors were taken into account, including concern for the health of the citizens, the state of water resources, sanitary norms, nature, and the environment.

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86 judges were dismissed by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko for violation of oath, the corresponding decree reads.

Ukraine ranks 130th of 168 states on a corruption perception index, according to Transparency International. Last year, Ukraine was the 142th among 175 states included in the rating.

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155 people have died from flu in Ukraine, according to the Health Ministry. Epidemiological situation is critical in 18 regions of Ukraine. In 11 regions, including Kyiv, the number of recorded cases exceeds an epidemiological threshold by 50%.

177 MPs, including those who are in fact the millionaires, have received accommodation compensation from the state budget, according to the Verkhovna Rada.

229 deputies voted for the law of Ukraine "On Amendments to Article 149 of the Regulations of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine" thus changing the procedure for adopting amendments to the Constitution.

230 Ukrainian citizens, including former officials from the period of Yanukovych rule, had their diplomatic and service passports canceled by Ukraine's Foreign Ministry.

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Only 250 state-owned enterprises should remain in Ukraine of around 3,000, the head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine, Borys Lozhkin, said.

400 times in two years have the NATO warplanes scrambled to intercept Russian military aircraft, said NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. According to the NATO chief, the Russian air operations near the European airspace of NATO has increased by almost 70% over the past two years.

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2,260 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in eastern Ukraine since the beginning of Russian aggression, according to the Ukrainian  President.

260,000 people affected by the conflict in Donbas, will have received food aid through the World Food Programme (WFP) before the end of June 2016, according to the organization.

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UNICEF plans to raise $54.3 million in 2016 to help children affected by the conflict in the east of Ukraine, according to the organization. Earlier this year, UNICEF has launched a campaign to raise $2.8 billion for humanitarian assistance to 43 million children in emergency situations around the world.

The National Bank of Ukraine had sold $161.3 million at foreign exchange auctions since the beginning of 2016 to stabilize the hryvnia, according to Ukrainian media.

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The U.S. has provided Ukraine with military training and equipment worth $266 million over the past two years, said U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey R. Pyatt.

The Ukrainians eligible to work in Poland and receiving income there transfer to Ukraine nearly EUR 5 billion annually, according to the Polish media.

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Ukraine expects to receive $10 billion in financial aid from its major lenders, including the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, EBRD, the U.S. government and the EU, Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko said.

The deficit of Ukraine’s state budget amounted to UAH 45.15 billion in 2015, according to the State Treasury Service. The figure is 1.5 times less than that in the previous year.

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