The ministry is undergoing reforms that include the development of a system that will review staffing in terms of the fight against corruption.

Analyst: “As widely noted by Ukraine observers, Putin’s goal is not to control Ukraine as it is to disrupt Ukraine’s functioning as a state. An unresolved war zone in the Donbas region is enough to achieve that goal.”

 

“…no matter how pretty the package set out by Putin might be, any agreement that would enshrine in any treaty or statute the possibility of Russian military intervention in any part of Ukraine under any circumstance should be rejected out of hand.”

 

NCSEJ today contacted the Jewish communities in Slovyansk and Kramatorsk. They continue to experience electricity, water and gas shortages. Emigration from Slovyansk, Kramatorsk and other areas of unrest in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions continues.  

 

“Although at first glance there are differences in their positions, it is striking that these people have a lot in common, even at the level of their biographies.”

The WIG Ukraine rose 0.6% yesterday, extending its win streak to four sessions at a 2.5% gain. Its biggest component, grain trader and sunflower oil producer Kernel (KER PW +1.9%), has improved 3.9% in two sessions.

 

The proposed resolution on Russia’s actions in Ukraine, introduced by U.S. Senator Benjamin Cardin, “condemns the clear, gross and uncorrected violation of the Helsinki principles by the Russian Federation with respect to Ukraine, including the particularly egregious violation of that country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.” The item also “deplores the armed intervention by forces under the control of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, and the human rights violations that they continue to cause.”

 

Some analysts suspect the latest moves are part of a Kremlin plan to block signing of the Ukraine-EU free trade agreement

Many in the West are aware of the horrors of the gulag, but few may realize that many Soviet camps stayed in business well into the reform era of Mikhail Gorbachev.

 

Direct contact with the kidnappers suggests that the men and women are being held by rebel commander and businessman Nikolai Kozitsyn in two different locations in eastern Ukraine, Perevalsk and Sievierodonetsk.

 

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