A report from TASS:
Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko said Sunday he has no doubts Ukraine will be granted visa-free travel with the European Union in 2016.
"I have no doubt that in 2016 Ukrainian will be granted the right of visa-free travel to the European Union," he said in an interview with the Inter television channel.
On December 18, the European Commission published a report where it
recommended the Council of the European Union to consider a visa-free agreement with Ukraine in 2016. The report included a long list of anticorruption liabilities Kyiv was yet to fulfill in the first quarter of 2016.
An RFE/RL Current Time report on how Odesa Governor Mikheil Saakashvili's United Center -- where people can get virtually any state document within 15 minutes -- doesn't have the funding to run at full capacity. The center is modeled after a very successful one in Tbilisi set up by Saakashvili's government when he was Georgian president.
President Poroshenko rejoices in the extension of sanctions against Russia:
President Poroshenko will address the Israeli parliament during his upcoming trip there:
In Crimea, the alleged corruption in the sale of a business in Simferopol:
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry again calling on Russia to ensure that its part of the Minsk agreements are fulfilled:
Ukrainian PM Yatsenyuk announces that only personal items will be allowed to be carried by anyone across the administrative border of the Russian-occupied Crimean region
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