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Despite sanctions, Russian organisations acquire Microsoft software
[MOSCOW] Software produced by Microsoft Corp has been acquired by state organisations and firms in Russia and Crimea despite sanctions barring US-based companies from doing business with them, official documents show. …read more Source: The Business...
Wallowing in Ukraine jail after attempted missile tech theft
September 30, 2017 5:00 AMZHYTOMYR (Ukraine) • The North Korean spy, posing as a member of his country’s trade delegation in Belarus, thought he was photographing a secret scientific report on missile technology as he snapped away with a small camera in a dingy garage in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro, the home of Ukraine’s Soviet-era...
Putin ally: No logic in deploying U.N. forces on Russia-Ukraine border
MOSCOW – One of President Vladimir Putin’s top allies said on Sunday she saw no logic in deploying U.N. peacekeepers along the border between Russia and Ukraine, something Kiev and Washington favor. Putin this month suggested armed U.N…. …read more Source:...
IMF’s Lipton says Ukraine risks going backwards
KIEV – Ukraine risks reversing progress made under a $17.5 billion aid-for-reforms programme from the International Monetary Fund, IMF first deputy managing director David Lipton was quoted as saying on Friday, urging the government to improve anti-graft… …read more Source:...
Ukraine’s Poroshenko says anti-corruption chamber more feasible in short-term
KIEV – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Friday said he hoped an anti-corruption chamber would be created next month, expressing doubt that an independent court could be established before 2019. The IMF wants Ukraine to set up a special… …read more Source:...
IMF’s Lipton says Ukraine risks going backwards
KIEV – Ukraine risks reversing progress made under a $17.5 billion aid-for-reforms programme from the International Monetary Fund, IMF first deputy managing director David Lipton was quoted as saying on Friday, urging the government to improve anti-graft… …read more Source:...
Ukraine’s Poroshenko says anti-corruption chamber more feasible in short-term
KIEV – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Friday said he hoped an anti-corruption chamber would be created next month, expressing doubt that an independent court could be established before 2019. The IMF wants Ukraine to set up a special… …read more Source:...
Ukraine sting operation of North Korean spies stealing missile plans caught on camera
August 25, 2017 12:53 PMWASHINGTON – Ukraine has released footage of two North Korean spies photographing what they thought were top-secret missile designs in a sting operation, as the country seeks to dispel claims that Pyongyang may have used designs stolen or originating from Ukraine in its development of intercontinental missile...
Analyst fingers Ukraine plant for North’s ICBM success
August 15, 2017 5:00 AMWASHINGTON • North Korea’s success in testing an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that appears able to reach the United States was made possible by black- market purchases of powerful rocket engines probably from a Ukrainian factory with historical ties to Russia’s missile programme, according to an...
North Korea’s missile success ‘powered by Ukraine rocket engines’
WASHINGTON – North Korea’s success in testing an intercontinental missile that appears able to reach the United States was made possible by black-market purchases of powerful rocket engines probably from a Ukrainian factory with historical ties to Russia’s… …read more Source:...
