The French supreme tribunal on January 11 will consider the issue of banning the so-called representative office of the self-proclaimed "Donetsk People's Republic" ("DPR") in Marseilles, registered as a public association, according to the TV news service TSN.ua.
Compressor manufacturer Bitzer has opened an office in Kyiv to support its presence in the region, according to Cooling Post.
The so-called "Ministry of Foreign Affairs" of the Donetsk People's Republic ("DPR") has announced the signing of a protocol on cooperation in the field of culture, information and international relations with the delegation from France, according to Information Resistance, a non-governmental project on information security.
Russia's VKontakte social network has closed its office in Kyiv due to the sanctions imposed by Ukraine, according to the Hromadske media outlet.
Director General of Russia's Mail.Ru Boris Dobrodeev has said that the Ukrainian branch of Mail.Ru will be closed and its employees will be offered employment at the company's Russian-based offices, according to Russia's business daily Kommersant.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has opened a regional office for southern Ukraine in the city of Odesa on Tuesday, May 30, the Bank said in a statement.
Russia's VKontakte social network will close its office in the Ukrainian capital, according to the Russian online publication about startups, innovations and Internet projects vc.ru.
Organizers from the Free Russia Foundation, a U.S.-based NGO founded by Russian dissidents, have opened what they call "an Embassy of the Civil Society of Russia in Ukraine," in Kyiv's trendy Podil district, according to Voice of America (VOA).