Ukrainian Finance Economy Minister Pavlo Sheremeta says he's resigning, casting a further pall on Kyiv's efforts to get the economy under control and meet its debts.
He added on Facebook that "So instead of another fight with yesterday's system, I decided to concentrate on working with the people who will create tomorrow's system."
An ITAR-TASS flash: Trucks with Russian humanitarian cargo start moving to Ukrainian border.
But unclear to me if by "to border" they mean beyond the no-man's zone that the eight trucks entered yesterday.
As Russia's economy falters:
Former Pussy Rioter @tolokno (Nadya Tolokonnikova). "Try to explain to Americans or Europeans why closing McDonald's upsets you. They'll look at you like a lowlife :-)"
This Moscow-based Twitter account (@shaveddinov in Russian) is taking the McDonald's closures seriously, listing the various local providers for McDonald's food. Here's one tweet that says "most of the buns for McDonald's in Russia are made by the East Balt bakery in Moscow."
This one quips: "When they came for Jean-Jacques I was silent, when they came for McDonald's..."
The Russian food-safety inspection agency says the surprise spot-checks of McDonald's restaurants will continue in the Krasnodar region, Reuters flashed, citing RIA Novosti. So that's Moscow, Sverdlovsk, and now Krasnodar.
Our Russian Service has a report (in Russian) on the planned resettlement today of around 1,000 Ukrainian refugees from temporary shelter in Crimea to more permanent accommodations in Russia, which annexed Crimea in March. There are around 7,000 such refugees on the peninsula, the report says, with hundreds more fleeing the fighting in eastern Ukraine every day.