Ukraine News. Tuesday 22 January. [Ukrainian sources]

TUESDAY HEADLINES:
The United States is waiting for Russia to find the right course of action - Pompeo.  The United States has supported the EU decision on sanctions against the Russian Federation for chemical weapons.  An American using a blade "extended" a residence permit in Ukraine, but was detained by border guards.  PACE has changed the rules by depriving Ukraine of seats in the committees: "It seems to be a small revenge for the position regarding the change in the rules for the Russian Federation".  In Russia, things started on Facebook and Twitter.  Two US citizens, who have been convicted of hooligan motives breaking the crucifixion in Uman, are prosecutors.  Almost 40% of Ukrainians prefer the center-left and left ideology, sociologists.  The bomber Tu-22M3 crashed in the Murmansk region of the Russian Federation.  Ukraine has received proposals from Gazprom regarding a new gas deal and will discuss them for two months.  For the transit of Russian gas to the EU in 2020, two contracts need to be concluded.  Gazprom refuses to recognize the decisions of the Stockholm arbitration and new legislation of Ukraine in the gas sector.  Tankers occupied by the coast of the occupied Crimea, belonging to the companies from the list of US sanctions,.  In the events on Maidan and the Russian aggression against Ukraine there is no logical interconnection, - Lutsenko.

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The United States is waiting for the RF to return "to the right course of action", which will lead to "the rule of law, order and freedom"

This was stated by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, reports the European truth.

"We are waiting for Russia to begin to change its behavior - whether it is in Ukraine or in the work it has done to influence the elections here in the United States to influence the elections throughout the world. This is not the behavior of a country that wants to be part of it. the international community, "he said.

Pompeo said that Russia and the United States are not doomed to be eternal rivals, as it was during the Cold War. But given the fact that both countries possess powerful nuclear arsenals, they are obligated to communicate in order to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

Pompeo noted that the United States is also waiting for Russia to return to "the right course of action", which will lead to "the rule of law, order and freedom."

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The United States supports the European Union's decisions on sanctions for the use of chemical weapons

This is reported by Secretary of State Michael Pompeo on Twitter.

"We welcome the EU with the introduction of the first sanctions under its new regime of restrictive measures on chemical weapons, and we are firmly convinced that the use of chemical weapons is unacceptable," he wrote.

We applaud the #EU for approving the first sanctions designation under its new chemical weapons sanctions authority, and stand firmly united in the conviction that chemical weapons use will not be tolerated. https://t.co/v1eZTRkF04

— Secretary Pompeo (@SecPompeo) January 22, 2019

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A US citizen has been transferred to the police, and he may stay in the country for a longer period than planned.

Border guards arrested a foreigner at the checkpoint "Krakovets", reports Censor.NET with reference to the State Border Service. "The man" continued "the validity of the certificate by mechanical cleaning," - said in a message.

The Americans were transferred to the National Police. The YRDR has provided information on the detection of signs of criminal offenses under Art. 358 of the Criminal Code (falsification of documents, seals, stamps and forms, their sale, use of forged documents). The punishment under this article varies from a fine of 850 hryvnias to arrest for a term of 3 years.

Krakovets - a checkpoint across the state border of Ukraine on the border with Poland. The State Border Service does not specify whether a US citizen wanted to enter or leave Ukraine.

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The Bureau of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe changed the rules for the formation of committees, which led to the abolition of Ukraine's seats in the regulating committee, working on the lifting of sanctions with the Russian Federation. The head of the Ukrainian delegation, Volodymyr Aryev, called it "a small revenge for the principled position of Ukrainians to change the regulations to the satisfaction of the Russian Federation."

According to the decision of the governing body of the PACE, there can be no more than two representatives of each Member State in the regulating committee and the committee on the election of judges of the ECHR. Such a decision was made on Monday, correspondent. Censor.NET with reference to the "European truth".

There were still no such restrictions on the committees mentioned; their composition was formed on the proposals of political groups. Due to this, in the regular committee there were 4 Ukrainians - Volodymyr Aryev, Vladislav Holub, Yulia Levochkina and Serhiy Kiral (first deputy chairman of the committee). This committee was responsible for the development of amendments to the regulation, which should lift the sanctions pressure from the Russian Federation and open the way for the return of Russians to the assembly.

As the head of the Ukrainian delegation, Volodymyr Aryev, told the discussion of the PACE Bureau "nulled" the list of those deputies whose countries exceeded the new quota at two places in the committee.

"It was decided to simply omit the list, now we have zero seats in the regulating committee, and the groups have to nominate new candidates," - he explained.

PACE Standing Committee December 10 will consider changes to the regulations that will allow the return of the delegation of the Russian Federation - Savitsky.

It should be noted that Ukrainian representatives in the Committee on Election of Judges of the ECHR also suffered (4 deputies from Ukraine), as well as representatives of a number of other countries lost their seats in the committees.

Aryev is convinced that the changes are directed against Ukraine because of its work in the regulatory committee.

"It seems to be a small revenge for the principled position of Ukrainians to change the regulations on behalf of the Russian Federation," he said.

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Roskomnadzor dissatisfied with the fact that the social network refused to transfer the user data to Russia for storage.

Officials did not get what American companies sent "formal answers" to the requests of the Russian department, reports Censor.NET with reference to "Medusa".

According to representatives of Roskomnadzor, Facebook and Twitter do not contain "concrete facts about the actual implementation of the legislation at the current moment or the timing of implementation of these norms in the future."

Russia wants to block Google.

The case against companies will be violated by an article on non-provision of information.

Facebook and Twitter are threatened with penalties of 3000 to 5000 rubles (from 1200 to 2000 hryvnia, ed.). But in Russia there is also the experience of blocking social networks for such "violations". So, in 2016, LinkedIn-oriented social media professionals were blocked even without violating administrative proceedings.

The law on the storage of personal data entered into force on September 1, 2015. It obliges companies to store and process personal data of Russians in Russia.

In April 2018, the head of Roskomnadzor, Alexander Zharov, said that the service would check whether Facebook complies with the law on localization of databases in Russia. If it turns out that no, then Roskomnadzor intends to raise the issue of blocking the social network.

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The Uman local prosecutor's office reported suspicion of two US citizens for damaging the gypsum crucifixion of Jesus Cross set on a wooden cross on the shore of a pond in Uman, Cherkassy region.

As the Cenzor.NET, this informs the press service of Uman local prosecutor's office.

"Thus, a pre-trial investigation found that 19-year-old and 20-year-old citizens of the United States, on Saturday, January 19, were in a state of intoxication, acting deliberately and purposefully, with hooligan motives, grossly violating public order, accompanied by a particularly audacious, from the motives of obvious disrespect for society, expressed in the desire to show their contempt for existing rules and norms of conduct in society, arrived at the location of the Orthodox cross, on which a sculpture with the image of the crucifixion of Jesus Cross, which is located on a rock next to the pond, which is on the street of the Liberators, Uman, and destroyed the sculpture, namely breaking the element in the form of the feet that was thrown to the ground, after which the guys fled from the place of the criminal offense,"- said in message.

Currently, intruders detained in accordance with Art. 208 CPC of Ukraine. On January 20, they were informed about suspicion of committing a criminal offense, stipulated by Part 2 of Art. 296 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine ("Hooliganism"). The Uman district court filed a petition for the election of a preventive measure in the form of detention in relation to them.

It is noted that the sanction of the article provides for punishment in the form of restraint of liberty for a term up to 5 years or imprisonment for a term up to 4 years.

Recall that in Uman before the Baptism the gypsum crucifixion of Jesus Christ was damaged. The Israeli ambassador called the event an act of vandalism.



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Almost 40% of Ukrainian citizens are oriented towards social-democratic and socialist ideology.
This is evidenced by the results of a sociological poll "Social and electoral expectations of Ukrainians from the 2019 elections", which were announced January 21 at a press conference in the Ukrainian News "Center for Social Engineering"RAND".

In particular, according to sociologists, 24.7% of the respondents consider the Social-Democratic platform to be close to themselves, 12.8% are guided by socialist ideas (that is, 37.5% of the general supporters of the "left"). Moderate nationalist and radical-nationalist ideology is less popular - 7.3% and 8.4% respectively (in the amount of 15.7%). Another 7.5% of the polled respondents are ready to profess Christian-democratic ideas, 4.2% - "green", and from supporters of liberal - only 2.1%.

According to Sergiy Demianov, head of the research sector at the Rand Social Engineering Center, "RAND", "compared to the last poll conducted in May 2018 at the request of" RAND "by SOCIS, there is a positive dynamics in popularizing the ideology of the" left. "Then, the Social Democratic 22.7% of the polled citizens were called socialist ideologies. As you can see: growth at the beginning of this year is almost 15%. This is a significant figure, "said the expert.

In addition, according to the data of the RAND survey, most respondents would like the "ideal" President to follow: social-democratic views (28.2%), socialist (12.8%), national-democratic (11.5%), , nationalist - 8.9%, Christian Democratic - 6.4%, communist - 4.3%, liberal - 2.3%, green (environmental) - 1.1%.

According to political scientist Sergei Godny, who was present at a press conference, "polling of voters" is associated with a number of factors. "First of all, politicians are left behind, promising to solve urgent social and social problems, which are complicated by the increase of gas tariffs and the growth of utility tariffs. Secondly, the" left "ideology is becoming popular in the countries of Europe which is not left In Ukraine, for example, the rise in the ranking of the leader of the Social Democratic Party, Sergei Kaplin, became tangible after his political force, the only Ukrainian "left", took part in the congress of the party of European socialists, and thirdly, the so-called" "the effect has come down because "the left" ideology is not alien to our citizens,"- says a sociologist.

Sociological survey "Social and electoral expectations of Ukrainians from the 2019 elections" was held by the Rand Social Engineering Center on January 9-18, 2019. Research method: standardized face-to-face interviews at the place of residence of respondents. The average duration of one interview was 21 minutes.

Sample: 1200 respondents were interviewed in all regions of Ukraine, including in Kiev (excluding the population of Crimea and the occupied territories of Donetsk and Lugansk regions). The data is presented in the context of 10 regions. In each of the selected regions, 120 respondents were interviewed. The results are representative at the country level as a whole, according to indicators such as age (18 years), gender, region of residence and type of settlement (city / village). Statistical sampling error: no more than 3,2%.

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The bomber Tu-22M3 was disastrous when landing on a military airfield in the Murmansk region.

As informs Censor.NET, this was reported on Tuesday by the TASS source in the security structures.

"The bomber Tu-22M3 was disastrous during a landing at the airfield of a distant aviation regiment in Olenegorsk (Murmansk region), an air incident took place around 13:40 Moscow time," the source said.

According to him, from the crew of the bomber, who suffered an accident, according to preliminary data, the commander and navigator survived.

"According to preliminary information, the commander and navigator remained alive," the source said. The crew of the plane consists of four people - the commander, commander's assistant, navigator and operator, reminded the source.

The Tu-22M3 with a four-person crew is designed to defeat targets in enemy territory at strategic depths. The maximum speed of the bomber reaches 2300 km / h, range of flight - 7 thousand km.

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Ukraine concluded a trilateral meeting with representatives of the European Commission and the Russian Federation on gas issues, received a proposal on possible volumes and terms of a gas transit contract after 2019

According to Censor.NET with reference to Interfax-Ukraine, the head of the board of NJSC "Naftogaz of Ukraine" Andriy Kobolev said in Brussels on Monday.

"We are grateful for the proposal that Maros Sheffovich's team made for the end of these negotiations, which is a certain starting point that we will accurately consider. We first heard her, they first received it, and I hope that in the next two months, we will have time to discuss it as in Naftogaz, and with the shareholder, "he said.

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To continue the transit of Russian gas to the European countries from 2020, gas transmission system operators in Ukraine and Russia must conclude two contracts: technological cooperation and directly related to the services of gas transportation, said Olena Zerkal, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine on European Integration.

"Ukraine is acting with the EU on a united front: from January 1, 2020, gas transportation should be based on the norms and rules of the EU, for this purpose, operators of gas transportation systems of Ukraine and Russia must conclude an agreement on interconnection agreement on the Russian-Ukrainian border, as provided for according to the EU standards, "O.Zerkul said on the basis of the tripartite gas talks involving Ukraine, Russia and the European Commission, reports Censor.NET, referring to Interfax-Ukraine.

The second contract, according to her, should relate to her own gas transportation services.

"This contract should determine the volume of gas and the period of transportation. The price for these services (tariffs) will be determined by NERCAP (National Commission for State regulation in the energy and utilities sectors - Ed.) Based on the European methodology. consensus with the EU", - said the deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.

She also noted that it is too early to comment on the proposal made at the talks on Jan. 21 by the Vice-President of the European Commission on the Energy Union of the European Union Maros Sheffovich on the scope of the possible future gas transit, "because the volumes issue depends on different scenarios of the development of the EU market, including infrastructure".

"But the proposal is from the EU and indeed, as Marosz noted, will create gravity in the tripartite negotiations," said O.Zerkul.

At the same time, according to the deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, the Russian side is seeking to apologize to Gazprom for Stockholm arbitration in exchange for the extension of the current gas contract.

"But the next consultations should be held in May (read after the presidential elections)." This is almost a literal quote from Russia's position. "My opinion is obvious: the position of the Russian Federation can not be considered negotiable and an alternative to the EU proposals," O.Zerkul said.

She emphasized again that the gas contracts between Naftogaz and Gazprom of 2009 "do not abstractly meet the requirements of Ukrainian and European legislation" and block Ukraine's integration into the EU gas market, in particular the impossibility of completing the Naftogaz bondage.

"Today's statements of the Russian Federation are simply irrelevant, but Russia's representatives are aware of this, but continue their irrational policies. Today, our advantage is the introduction of EU norms in Ukraine, the completion of the gas sector reform and mutual understanding with the EU on most issues," summed up O. Zerkal.

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Gazprom is still refusing to recognize the decisions of the Stockholm Arbitration and new gas legislation of Ukraine, on the basis of which it is proposed to sign a new transit agreement.
According to the Foreign Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin, Censor.NET reports referring to Interfax-Ukraine .

"The Russian side does not even consider the fact that we now have completely different legislation, other rules, other laws that reflect the European legislation and the fact that we must move from contractors to real contracts that will be based on European rules. Russia's side, or even more, Gazprom does not want to consider a minimum at this stage, "he told reporters following a trilateral meeting that took place in Brussels on Monday.

The talks discussed prospects for the continued transit of Russian gas to Europe through Ukraine after 2019, when the current transit contract expires.

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An explosion and fire on the two tankers belonging to the Turkish company Milenyum Denizcilik Gemi, which is in the "Syrian sanctions list of the United States", was fired at the Crimean coast.

According to Censor.NET, the head of the supervisory board of the Ukrainian public organization "Maydan of Foreign Affairs", editor-in-chief of the Black Sea News news agency Andriy Klymenko, wrote on Facebook .

According to him, Milenyum Denizcilik Gemi from the spring of 2015 is in the "Syrian sanctions list of the United States and in the Ukrainian Crimean" black list".

"Both vessels (under the Tanzanian flag) were smuggled into Syria and Lebanon from Kerch (more recently also from Temryuk in Russia). There is nothing to do with the situation in the Azov Sea and the Kerch Strait, and these tankers have always passed through the Kerch Strait First of all, most likely, it's not a very legal business, "said Klymenko.

According to the FleetMon portal, as a result of an explosion and a fire on two tankers near the Crimean coast, the number of dead rose to 10.

In particular, FleetMon says that 14 people have been rescued, and another 7 people are still searching.

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The Russian Federation planned aggression against Ukraine long before the events of the Revolution of Dignity.

This was stated by the Attorney General Yuriy Lutsenko in an interview with "Visiting Dmitry Gordon," informs Censor.NET with reference to Interfax-Ukraine.

"The Maydan and the Putin-imposed war did not stand in one chain of events, we are a sovereign country, we have the right to act in the same way that any nation would act, protecting itself from dictatorship," Lutsenko said.

According to him, the Russian Federation planned aggression long before the events on Maidan.

"We found that in 2013, the SBU wrote that there were sabotage groups in the Kherson region, supported by the current politicians of the Crimean autonomy, even then Motorola is among the names", - said the prosecutor general.

"I argue that the Maidan and occupation are not a logical chain," he summed up.

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