MP Lutsenko said that requesting data on the earnings of the media holding staff is not among the regulator’s constitutional duties.
Sytnyk states there have been unprecedented attempts to exert pressure on the NABU and destroy the agency together the Special Anti-corruption Prosecutor's Office.
Heading into the new year, tensions between Moscow and Washington show no sign of abating, a U.S.-based private intelligence and analytical company Stratfor wrote in its report.
Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko he was under pressure in relation to the criminal case launched against the leader of the "Movement of New Forces", former Odesa governor and ex-president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili, who is accused of assisting members of criminal organizations and concealing their criminal act, Lutsenko's press secretary Larysa Sargan wrote on Facebook, quoting the prosecutor general as saying.
Russia's gas monopoly Gazprom continues to violate technical requirements of a gas transit contract with National Joint-Stock Company Naftogaz of Ukraine, which threatens to disrupt gas transit shipments to the European Union, according to Naftogaz website.
Russia’s Federation Council has proposed to equalize the number of U.S. media outlets represented in Russia with the number of Russian ones working in the U.S., the BBC reports citing the Izvestia newspaper.
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has expressed concern over possible pressure on the forex market due to large budgetary payments at the end of the year, NBU Deputy Governor Oleh Churii told reporters on September 14.
Vitaliy Shabunin, the founder of the U.S.-funded Anti-Corruption Action Center, whose work is critical to unlocking billions of dollars of aid for Ukraine’s cash-strapped government, according to Bloomberg.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Sunday the firing of three ballistic missiles by North Korea this week was a provocative act but that the United States will continue to seek a peaceful resolution, Reuters reported.