Section: France
IMF secures reform commitment from Ukraine after bailout warning
Ukraine’s president on Thursday told the International Monetary Fund he was committed to pursuing reforms to keep Kiev’s $17.5 billion IMF bailout on track, after a sharp warning from the lender that the funds were at risk. …read more Source: France...
Ukraine: four dead as bus trips mine in divided Donetsk
At least four people have been killed after a bus drove over a mine in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine. Bus tripped a mine at Ukrainian… …read more Source:...
IMF warns Ukraine to tackle corruption or bailout stops
The International Monetary Fund has warned Ukraine that it will block its $40bn bailout programme if Kyiv fails to confront crippling corruption.… …read more Source:...
Eastern Ukraine struggles to survive across rebel dividing line
Once a village, Stanitsa Luhanska became an outlying city district of Luhansk and home to 15,000 before the war. Today it is totally destroyed, and… …read more Source:...
Normal life in East Ukraine waits on demining efforts
Wednesday is the first anniversary of the “Minsk agreement”:http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/216511 that was supposed to end the crisis between… …read more Source:...
Disgraced former IMF chief Strauss-Kahn joins Ukrainian bank
Disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been appointed to the supervisory board of a bank owned by Ukraine’s second-richest businessman Viktor Pinchuk. …read more Source: France...
Ukraine’s economy minister resigns saying he has ‘no desire to be a screen for brazen corruption’
Ukraine’s economy minister Aivaras Abromavicius has resigned claiming senior figures within the government of President Petro Poroshenko attempted to… …read more Source:...
Ukraine: Life in the village of Zolotoe 3 in the Luhansk region
The scars of conflict run deep in eastern Ukraine and not just through the ruined homes. Zolotoe 3 is a village in the Luhansk region just two… …read more Source:...
Ukraine’s economy minister quits over ‘corrupt vested interests’
Ukraine’s economy minister has announced his intention to resign. Aivaras Abromavicius said his ministry was being hijacked by corrupt vested… …read more Source:...
FRANCE – RUSSIA -UKRAINE: Ukraine asks French TV channel not to show documentary on far-right militias
0 A French documentary on the influence of far-right militias in the Ukraine conflict has caused a storm with the Ukrainian embassy in France asking TV channel Canal+ not to broadcast it. The programme The Masks of the Revolution gave a …read more Source: Radio France...
