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Euromaidan Newsletter # 334 CIVIC SECTOR OF CIVIC SECTOR OF EUROMAIDAN 20 GRASSROOTS MOVEMENT 20 , EuroMaidan Newsletter # 334 15 - 9 EU extends Crimea-related sanctions against Russia June U.S. House offers to designate Russia “State Sponsor of Terrorism” . 4 3 U.S. House Committee offers to designate Russia conspiracies in focus of Russian propaganda this 3 "State Sponsor of Terrorism". week. # Kaspersky’s charm offensive: A Russian EU to extend Crimea-related sanctions against cybersecurity company launches a PR campaign. Russia for another year. Color Revolution in the USA: StopFakeNews with Ukraine becomes a NATO Enhanced Opportunities Marko Suprun (No. 288). Fake: Kyiv is Partner. blackmailing the West because of Crimea. Secret labs and George Soros: Kremlin’s COVID- Mykolayiv shipbuilding plant being cup for scrap 19 disinformation in the EU Eastern Partnership metal. NEWSLETTER countries. US protests in Russian propaganda: “A red, white and blue All-American Maidan”. Racial injustice protests and coronovirus Left: Odesa corruption fighter charged with murder for defending himself against third armed attack Right: Ukraine’s courts are trying to jail a corruption fighter, but a sea of public support is getting in the way Right not to be killed Three conditions for the deoccupation of Crimea and Donbas Drought threatens Ukraine, its relations with Russia, and regional cooperation plans. The economics of being a feeder country. Turning threats into opportunities. Right not to be killed: why is it still possible to be imprisoned for self-defense in Ukraine. How the Kremlin tries to play US protests. Three conditions for the deoccupation of Crimea Putin’s new playground in Libya, explained. and Donbas – Vitaly Portnikov. KGB archives: How the NKVD crushed young patriotic OUN members in Melitopol region. 1 Covid19 used to block OSCE, as Russia sends tanks , 2020 Germany, France must clearly say Russia violating Minsk agreements 15 - Jun.15. Occupiers fire guided antitank missiles on Germany, France must clearly say Russia violating defenders of Novoselivka Druha. Invaders violate Minsk agreements – Volker. ceasefire in Donbas 15 times: Ukrainian soldier 334. June 9 wounded. France allocates EUR 80 mln for reconstruction of # Popasna water company, Covid19 used to block OSCE monitors while Russia continues bringing war to Ukraine by night. National Guard Ivan Murovanyi: "We didn't sit idle in dugouts. We would always return fire". Russia deploys dozens of trucks, tanks, armoured personnel vehicles to occupied Donbas. NEWSLETTER Why Russia is afraid of Ukraine's Neptune The traitors, terrorists, and criminals Ukraine received in prisoner swaps with Russia’s missiles. “LNR/DNR”. Ukrainian language removed from schools in Russian proxy Luhansk ‘republic’. Photo “Head to Berlin!” Right: Arrested for being pro-Ukrainian in occupied Crimea 100 Crimeans prosecuted for rejecting military service in Russian army US Condemns ‘Jemilev case’, repression of Over 100 Crimeans prosecuted for rejecting Russia. military service in Russian occupiers’ army. Russia arrests 20-year-old and five others with Russian FSB stopped searching pro-Ukraine pro-Ukrainian views in occupied Crimea. Crimean’s home when they ‘found’ planted explosives. FSB detains Ukrainian citizen in Russia-occupied Crimea. Sentenced to eight years in a Russian prison for being Ukrainian. Crimean Tatar arrested for refusing to give false testimony against political prisoners. Poroshenko under attack: well-grounded charges or political persecution? Turns out Putin’s man in Ukraine co-owns country’s most popular TV channel MH17 trial, NATO’s Enhanced Opportunities Another ex-media manager appointed as , 2020 Partner, first tranche of IMF loan and more – Ukraine’s Culture Minister: saving culture or 15 uacrisis weekly update #22, 08 – 14 June. president’s image? - Week's balance: International financial assistance Rock star and lawmaker Svyatoslav Vakarchuk to Ukraine, slowdown in inflation, and key rate has announced he will give up his mandate in reduction by National Bank. parliament but remain in politics. IMF approves $5 billion in aid for Ukraine to Batkivshchyna Party leader Tymoshenko to back shore up economy wracked by coronavirus. Liashko of Radical Party in Rada by-elections. 334. June 9 # IMF publishes memorandum with Ukraine. Ukraine and Hungary move to settle differences over national minority legislation. COVID-19 morbidity trends in Ukraine reach new levels. iMoRe №133. Spring rush: the land market and reforms in the banking sector. The long-awaited Seven regions are responsible for Ukraine’s law on land market pushed the index up. COVID-19 growth: interactive graph. Turns out Putin’s man in Ukraine co-owns NEWSLETTER Zelenskyy switches to ‘quarantine’ working mode. country’s most popular TV channel. Ukraine resumes air travel. Here is who can enter President introduces new head of Foreign the country (interactive map). Intelligence Service. Ukraine's GDP could fall by up to 8% in 2020 – Signed by Volodymyr Zelenskyy: which reforms govt. did the President support. The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has decided Three years of visa-free travel: Ukrainians have to lower the discount rate from 8% to 6% from made almost 49 million trips to EU. June 12, 2020. Odesa activist and target of three savage attacks Poroshenko under attack: well-grounded charges charged with murdering his armed assailant. or political persecution? The head of the regional council in the southern Questions to Zelenskyy if ex-President Ukrainian region of Kherson who is suspected of Poroshenko really is remanded in custody. ordering a deadly attack on local anti-corruption EP warns against political persecution of activist Kateryna Handzyuk failed to show at a hearing in Kyiv that would have decided on his Poroshenko. possible pretrial arrest. Poroshenko blames Yanukovych for Ukrainian army's weak state when Russia seized Crimea. Left: Ukraine moves one step closer to jailing its former president; his supporters bring on the caricatures Right: 2.5 hectares innovation park ITown with a residential area is being built in Odesa Banda becomes the most effective independent agency worldwide Report: Kyiv startup ecosystem is the best in emerging Europe Ukrainian Banda Agency becomes the most The list of the world’s top universities includes six effective independent agency worldwide. Ukrainian ones. Report: With abundant tech talents, Kyiv startup Kyiv climbs 44 spots in ranking of most expensive ecosystem is the best in emerging Europe. cities for expatriates. , 2020 Galicia’s 15 adventurous and - free-spirited Sofia Jablonska 334. June 9 # See Ukraine’s tourist hotspots from the sky Watch Yuriy Hrytsyna’s Varta1, Lviv, Ukraine online NEWSLETTER mobilization, direct democracy, hierarchy, and Explore Ukraine: See Ukraine’s tourist hotspots violence. from the sky (Video). Watch an online screening of Yuriy Hrytsyna’s Varta1, Lviv, Ukraine (2015), on view from Wednesday, June 17 through Tuesday, June 23, 2020. The film is an experimental documentary that interrogates the notions of online Left: German Odessa: the city of all trades Right: Antique sinks in Lviv. 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