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Sea Breeze 2016: Romanian Navy corvette arrived in the port of Odessa
The Romanian Navy’s corvette, Contra-Amiral Eustaţiu Sebastian (F-264), arrived in the port of Odessa on the 18th of July. The ship will be taking part in the international Sea Breeze 2016 exercises, which will be held during the last ten days of July in the northwestern part of the Black Sea and in the south of Odessa and Mykolaiv. This was reported by the press service of the administration of the Odessa seaport.
The 93-meter ship, with its crew of 77 people, joined the Romanian Navy in …
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Roshen factory in Lipetsk repaid $2.8 million in unpaid taxes
Roshen Corporation, which is owned by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and which has a factory in Lipetsk, Russia, has repaid $2.8 in taxes and penalties as demanded by the Russian court. Russian Prime news portal reported that this was stated in the case documents which were submitted by the Moscow City Court.
“The factory voluntarily paid 181 million rubles [$2.8 million] and penalties, thus repaying the claimed damage caused to the state,” the judge announced while reading the case …
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Right Sector said it will resort to 'civil detention' if participants of Church procession use Russian imperial symbols
Pravyi Sektor, or “Right Sector” (a far-right Ukrainian nationalist political party), is going to visit the final part of the all-Ukrainian procession of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, to be held in Kiev on July 27, 2016. Members of the organization have promised to resort to “civil detention” if the participants of the procession use the Imperial Symbols or St. George's ribbon.
“Not only the battalion of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) has the intention to do so. I am aware …
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Almost 9,000 IT specialists left Ukraine in the last 2 years
The growth of the Ukrainian IT market to $2.5 billion at the end of 2015 has not led to an increase in the number of the industry experts. On the contrary, there is a serious lack of young IT specialists.
As the press service of SmartMe University reported, citing its managing partner Oksana Belaya, over the past two years up to 9,000 IT specialists emigrated from Ukraine to Europe and the United States, Interfax-Ukraine reports.
"Unfortunately, over the past two years, 9,000 IT professionals …
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Chairman of Verkhovna Rada: 200 Crimean judges were dismissed due to violation of oath
The Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, Andriy Parubiy, stated on the 18th of July at the final press conference in Kiev that the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine dismissed 193 judges from annexed Crimea for violation of oath. Two hundred and seventy judges were dismissed during the fourth session, including two judges of the Constitutional Court and also 193 judges from the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, also for violation of oath.
The MPs adopted the corresponding resolution on each judge separately …