We're starting a new section called "In English". Why are we doing this?
Because you have the right to know. Because the "traditional" channels
broadcasting from Ukraine are sometimes far enough from true. And because the
idea of democracy suggests having another opinion. Our job is to give it to
you - after which it's up to you to judge who's right and who's wrong.
*On July 25, about 30 people with symbols of Svoboda attacked Sergey
Bliznyuk, the chief editor of local newspaper Izvestia Borznyanshchina, and
the administration's employees, at the premises of the Borznianska Regional
State Administration.*
Ukrposhta has confirmed to Vesti that, since July 20, all postal offices
suspend retirement payouts. The reason for non-payment is that the Retirement
Fund of Ukraine simply did not transfer funds for these purposes.
*A U.S. historian reveals the essence of slogan "Glory to Ukraine".*
Slogan "Glory to Ukraine", which is so actively promoted in Kiev, is similar
to the greeting of German fascists, "Zig Heil".
On Wednesday, July 4th, railroaders and trade unionists gather on the
Independence Place in Kiev, in order to march towards the Cabinet of
ministers and to protest against corruption and lawlessness in Ukrainian
railways.
A Ukrainian politician tells how Kiev could have avoided the loss of Crimea
and the Donbass conflict.
According to him, if the country had stayed neutral, the Crimea and Donbass
problems could have been avoided.
On July 1, a Gypsy woman was cruelly killed in Transcarpathia.
The woman was approximately 30 years old. According to local Romas, she was
killed by a "stranger".
The woman died of stab wounds.
