Investigations

ATB owner Gennady Butkevich: The rise and fall of one oligarch The events of autumn-winter 2013-2014 were dubbed the Revolution of Dignity. Many are dissatisfied with the pace of change in the quality of Ukrainian government, but, without a doubt, tectonic shifts have occurred in Ukraine’s domestic and foreign policy. The most odious functionaries of […]

“Privatbank” of the Dnepropetrovsk governor Igor Kolomoisky, apparently, wants to cover all its losses at public expense. At first glance, the bank seems to be one of the largest and most stable in Ukraine, with a huge number of branches and millions of customers (40.6% of all depositors in Ukraine keep their deposits there). However, […]

Sergey Tigipko Who is the leader of “Strong Ukraine” leading to the elections? The Strong Ukraine party of Serhiy Tihypko was the first to publish a list of its candidates for people’s deputies. It included representatives of the conflicting oligarchs Dmitry Firtash and Igor Kolomoisky, as well as Viktor Pinchuk and Tariel Vasadze. It should […]

Boris Ostapyuk On September 8, on the instructions of Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, an audit of the financial and economic activities of the state-owned enterprise Ukrzaliznytsia (UZ) was launched. On September 8, on the instructions of Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, an audit of the financial and economic activities of the state-owned enterprise Ukrzaliznytsia (UZ) was […]

Igor Guzhva Police detained the editor-in-chief of the newspaper VESTI Igor Guzhva during a rally in support of the publication. “Three police officers forced the editor of VESTI, Igor Guzhva, into a car and drove away,” reports an APOSTROPH correspondent. The rally took place near the Mystetsky Arsenal building, where the 11th Yalta Forum of […]

Igor Guzhva reported the details of the search to the editorial office of the newspaper VESTI and expressed his suspicions about the reasons. Here is the text of Igor Guzhva’s message from his Facebook page: Details of the seizure of the editorial office by SBU officers have become known. In short, we are again talking […]

Nikolay Lagun Today, a number of Internet media reported that the owner of Delta Bank, Nikolai Lagun, was arrested at Zhulyany airport. There is still no confirmation of this message. Here is the text of the message from the site Compromising portal: The owner of Delta Bank, Nikolai Lagun, was detained today at the Zhulyany […]

Petro Poroshenko Today, by decrees of President Poroshenko, new governors of the Ivano-Frankivsk and Kherson Regional State Administrations were appointed. They were, respectively, a member of the Front Zmin faction Oleg Goncharuk and a member of the UDAR party Andrei Putilov. The head of the Cherkasy Regional State Administration, Yuriy Tkachenko, was confirmed in his […]

The result of the consultation meeting on September 5 in Minsk were 12 points of the protocol aimed at stabilizing the situation and achieving peace in Donbas. The trilateral contact group, which discussed the necessary steps, consisted of representatives of Ukraine, the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism) and the OSCE. The format of the […]

Negotiations in Minsk between the ATO, DPR and LPR At contact group negotiations between representatives of Ukraine, the self-proclaimed “DPR” and “LPR” with the participation of the OSCE on Friday, a protocol on a ceasefire in Donbass was signed from 18.00 Friday. The Interfax-Ukraine agency learned about this from sources close to the negotiations. “A […]