The city administration had banned the protest “to ensure the inviolability of the constitutional order, territorial integrity and sovereignty of the Russian Federation.” The march’s organizer Artyom Loskutov wrote in twitter that the ban is unmotivated and illegal.

 

The statement goes on to explain that the ministry does not consider itself authorized to “comment on violations of media legislation of the Russian Federation by the management of Channel One.”

 

"It got to the point where it was just too frothy and you saw it coming and things needed to cool down," said Stephen Massocca, managing director at Wedbush Equity Management LLC in San Francisco.

 

"It was clearly the Russian thing, the Ukrainian thing. Those are rather bellicose comments from Poland so I can see where that got people a little scared."

 

People fleeing eastern Ukraine face increasing difficulties, including access to banking services. Basic infrastructure has been heavily affected by the violence, with scarcity of drinking water becoming increasingly common. According to UNHCR, many houses and buildings have been partially or totally destroyed by conflict in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

 

So far, European companies appear to be bearing up, though analysts fear it won't take much of an increase in tensions between the West and Russia to start crimping the recovery.

 

 The first emphasis of the new law is to increase “the academic, financial, and organizational autonomy” of Ukrainian higher education institutions, said Kvit. For example, the reforms allow Ukrainian universities to open their own bank accounts, and give educators greater flexibility in the classroom in order to encourage scientific research.

 

“Learning from past mistakes, the Ukrainian General Staff totally restructured its thinking and the Ukrainian army started to fight in accordance with all the laws of modern military strategy.”

 

< The street rate, the rate with which average citizens usually deal, had stabilized for some weeks at about 1USD = UAH11.70. However, in recent days the street rate has slowly weakened to settle at what appears to be an at least temporary stability point of 1USU = UAH12.20.

As the fighting in eastern Ukraine intensifies between government forces and pro-Russian rebels, around the cities of Donetsk and Luhansk, the UN says that in the past week alone 6,200 people have fled their homes.

 

 Restrictions apply to the “sale, supply, transfer or export” of certain technologies “suited to the oil industry for use in deep water exploration and production, Arctic oil exploration and production, or shale oil projects”.

 

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