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Video: Crimean Tartars scuffle with Ukrainian servicemen to stop power repairs - Telegraph
▻http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/12010521/Crimean-Tartars-scuffle-with-Ukranian-servicemen-to-stop-power-repairs.

Ukrainian activists, calling themselves Civil Blockade of Crimea, block repairs to damaged power lines as Crimea plunges into darkness

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UNIAN: Ukrenergo vows to partly restore power supply to Crimea within one day
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State-run Ukrainian energy company Ukrenergo will be able to repair one of the four destroyed transmission lines supplying electricity from mainland Ukraine to Russian-occupied Crimea within 24 hours if its repair teams have full and safe access to the damaged equipment, the Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry’s press service said in a statement.

if they have safe access…

Deux jours plus tard, il faut maintenant 4 jours pour réparer les pylônes (toujours conditionnés à un accès sécurisé au site)

Ukrainian Protesters Block Crimea Power Repairs After Blasts - Bloomberg Business
▻http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-23/ukrainian-protesters-block-crimean-power-repairs-after-blasts

Protesters in Ukraine blocked authorities’ efforts to restore power to Crimea after explosions cut links to the peninsula on Sunday, plunging almost 2 million people into darkness.
A leader of the ethnic Tatar community from the territory, which President Vladimir Putin annexed from Ukraine last year, said talks to restore power could resume after Russia releases Ukrainian political prisoners. While Ukraine’s state energy provider Ukrenergo said Sunday that restoring the connection may take as long as four days, protesters continued to block the site of the explosions on Monday.

"The repair works haven’t started yet,” a spokesman at Ukrenergo’s press office said by phone, declining to give his name according to policy. Ukrenergo agreed with protest representatives to meet Monday afternoon to discuss access for workers and resuming repairs, according to the company’s website.

échantillon de démentis,…

Claim of Ukrainian weapons sale to ISIS prompts denials, alarm
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/claim-of-ukrainian-weapons-sale-to-isis-prompts-denials-alarm-402511.html

l’officiel,

“Ukraine has not manufactured or carried out purchases of the FN-6 anti-aircraft missile systems mentioned in the statement, and also has not provided the transport for their shipment,” a statement on [Ukraine’s Defense Ministry’s] website said.

« impossibilités » diverses

Andriy Lysenko, a Ukrainian military spokesperson, said there would be “nothing surprising” about such Chinese-made systems winding up in the occupied territory of Donetsk, noting that separatists could easily transport weapons across the uncontrolled border with Russia.

But it would be “practically impossible” to move such weapons across territories under control of the government, he said.

Apart from the war-torn east, however, the city of Odesa also has a reputation for a smuggling hub.

Nikolai Holmov, a writer and consultant based in Odesa, said corruption could have made it possible to have weapons smuggled out of the ports in Odesa, “but that does not mean it’s necessarily probable.”

et l’incontournable, c’est les Russes !

Volodymyr Fesenko of the Penta political research center warned that the news about the weapons sold to ISIS could play into Russia’s hands.

“The likelihood that this news is nothing more than another Russian information attack on Ukraine is rather high. They already did this several times in 2002-2003, when the news that Ukraine sold ‘Kolchuga’ radar systems to Iraq appeared in the media. That was when (Leonid) Kuchma decided he needed closer ties with NATO,” Fesenko said.

There is a chance that someone in Ukraine could have sold weapons to ISIS, he said, but Russia will exaggerate the news.

“Russia is fighting against terrorism together with the West. And now it can show the West, “Look at this little nasty Ukraine! You protect them, and you confront us because of them! And they sell weapons to ISIS!” said Fesenko.

Dans le même ordre d’idées.

Minsk agreements may be extended to 2016 without conclusion of another agreement
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The Package of Measures for the implementation of the Minsk agreements on Ukraine may be extended to 2016 without the signing of additional agreements, a source from a group organizing the negotiations told Interfax on Friday.

(brève)

Les accords de Minsk 2 (point 11) prévoyaient une nouvelle constitution avant fin 2015. Celle-ci devait mettre en place une décentralisation et accorder un statut spécial aux régions d’Ukraine orientale.

Occasion d’une énième bagarre dans les couloirs du parlement…
(les deux versions : il l’aurait frappée avec une bouteille en verre, elle se serait cognée accidentellement contre la bouteille)

Lawmaker war hero allegedly strikes female colleague with bottle (VIDEOS)
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The discussion that led to the quarrel between the lawmakers was about parliament failing to adopt a bill against labor discrimination, which would’ve prohibited firing someone based on their sexual orientation. Adoption of this law is one of the preconditions to establish visa-free travel with the European Union.

Teteruk voted for the law, Kuzhel didn’t.

EU postpones key meeting on Ukraine visa verdict - watch on - uatoday.tv
▻http://uatoday.tv/politics/another-hurdle-in-ukraine-rsquo-s-path-towards-eu-visa-free-travel-530874.ht

Today, November 10, a key meeting in Brussels has been cancelled. There, top diplomats had planned to finally decide in secret whether visa requirements for Ukrainians should be scrapped.
[…] No new date has been announced.

Ce même 10 novembre, le parlement ukrainien examine en deuxième lecture les 6 lois à l’adoption desquelles l’UE conditionne la suppression du visa.

Ukrainian parliament readies to vote on ‘EU-visa free’ bill - watch on - uatoday.tv
▻http://uatoday.tv/politics/ukrainian-parliament-530840.html

Ukrainian MPs plan to vote on a package of laws today necessary for the introduction of visa-free travel to the European Union.

Encore raté !

Rada fails to introduce ’anti-discrimination’ provision into Labor Code
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The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has failed to introduce the “anti-discrimination” provision into the Labor Code of Ukraine.

Mais quand même en progrès : 207 voix pour sur les 226 nécessaires.

Et ceux qui n’ont pas pris part au vote, c’est juste pour faire respecter la procédure parlementaire…

Lawmakers reject anti-discrimination law — again
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The law was tried twice in parliament, receiving 207 of the required 226 votes in the 423-seat parliament. A Nov. 5 attempt to adopt a similar norm received a mere 117 votes.

Some lawmakers did not vote for the Nov. 10 law because they said it hadn’t passed proper parliamentary procedure, under which it should have been presented ahead of time. The draft was dated November 10.

Earlier, Olena Sotnyk, a Samopomich Party lawmaker, told the Kyiv Post that her faction was boycotting legislative initiatives that were presented in breach of procedure.

Et donc, pour la seconde fois un texte comme celui-ci ne peut pas passer au parlement ukrainien.

The proposed legislation would forbid “all kinds of discrimination in the workplace - direct or indirect (...) on the grounds of race, skin color, political, religious and other beliefs, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnical background, etc.”

Le rapport du Groupe consultatif du Conseil de l’Europe était présenté aujourd’hui à Kiev à 10h et le sera demain (5/11) à Odessa.

International Advisory Panel to present its review of the Odesa violence investigations on Wednesday in Kyiv, on Thursday in Odesa - Council of Europe Office in Ukraine - Council of Europe
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The report of the International Advisory Panel on its review of the investigations into the violent incidents in Odesa in May 2014 will be presented at press conferences in Kyiv on Wednesday, 4 November 2015, and in Odesa on Thursday, 5 November 2015.

The report will be presented by Sir Nicolas Bratza, Chair of the International Advisory Panel (IAP), former President of the European Court of Human Rights; Volodymyr Butkevych, IAP Member, former Judge of the European Court of Human Rights, and Oleg Anpilogov, IAP Member, a former prosecutor of Ukraine.

The Special Advisor of the Council of Europe Secretary General for Ukraine, Christos Giakoumopoulos, will also take part in the press conference in Kyiv.

The press conference in Kyiv will take place at 10:00 local time on Wednesday, 4 November, at the Ukrinform Press Centre (8/16 Bohdana Khmelnytskoho Street, Kyiv).

The press conference in Odesa will take place the next day, on Thursday, 5 November, at 10:00 local time, at the Londonskaya Hotel (11 Prymorskyi Blvd, Odesa).

Ukraine Failing to Probe Pro-Russia Protester Deaths, Panel Says - Bloomberg Business
▻http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-04/ukraine-failing-to-probe-pro-russia-protester-deaths-panel-says

Ukrainian authorities are failing to adequately investigate 48 deaths, including of 42 pro-Russian protesters, in the Black Sea port of Odessa in May 2014, according to an international panel set up by the Council of Europe.
The demonstrators clashed with football fans and participants in a pro-government rally as the military conflict in Ukraine’s easternmost regions erupted following Russia’s annexation of nearby Crimea. Most of the deaths occurred after a building in which the protesters had barricaded themselves was set on fire.
“Despite the lapse of some 18 months after the events, not a single charge has been brought in respect of the deaths,” the panel said Wednesday in an e-mailed report. The body is tracking the investigation to check it meets the requirements of the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights.

Scènes de dépouillement à Dnipropetrovsk…

▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yZE_Hlr1yU

On the eve of his detention, Korban was involved in an argument at the Babushkinskiy District Election Commission in central Dnipropetrovsk. The district had not yet filed its results for the Oct. 25 local election to the City Election Commission.

UKROP wanted the final count for the district to take place at the City Election Commission, while representatives of Petro Poroshenko Bloc and Opposition Bloc wanted the head of the commission to be replaced.

The argument reportedly continued for hours during which armed men entered the building and an armored personnel carrier marked Dnipro-1 Battalion - a division allegedly sponsored by oligarch Kolomoisky - showed up outside and left without explanation. Denys Davydov, a representative of the election monitors OPORA, reported on Facebook that the commission, under armed guard, handed over their count to the City Election Commission.

In the heat of the argument, Korban threw a book across the table at the election commission members. The video of the incident was published by his opponent Vilkul’s people.

OSCE’s impartiality questioned as monitor turns out to be ex-Russian intelligence officer
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A scandal over the work in Ukraine of Russian monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has erupted after one of them was videoed saying he had recently served in Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU).

The Russian was also videoed using insulting and derogatory language regarding Ukraine.

The OSCE said on Oct. 27 that it had expelled the monitor from its mission in Ukraine, attributing the move to the monitor’s “unprofessional conduct, (and) violations of (the OSCE) code and the principle of impartiality.” The OSCE said the observer had been “apparently inebriated.”

The scandal underscores long-running concerns in Ukraine over the presence of Russian monitors on the OSCE mission in the country.

Critics say that allowing representatives of an aggressor country to monitor the war zone in eastern Ukraine is an absurdity. They also suspect that some of them could be spying for Russia.

However, the OSCE has been reluctant to recognize Russia as a party to the war in eastern Ukraine, despite there being an immense pool of evidence of the presence of Russian weapons, mercenaries and regular troops in the country.

The monitor who triggered the scandal, Maxim Udovichenko, told Ukrainian channel 1+1 in the city of Severodonetsk in Luhansk Oblast that he had served in the 24th special forces brigade of Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), according to footage of the 1+1 television network posted on the Ukraine Today channel’s site on Oct. 27.

“Yes, I served in Russian armed forces…” Udovichenko said in the video footage. “I served in the 24th brigade of special forces. I retired in 2010.”

1+1 also sent the Kyiv Post footage in which Udovichenko explicitly calls himself a “GRU officer” and appears to threaten a 1+1 journalist.

“I served in the Main Intelligence Directorate,” he told the journalist. “Are you out of your mind? You’re messing with the wrong guy.”

Udovichenko said he had retired as a lieutenant colonel, and added he had served during the war in Chechnya in 1994. He also lambasted Ukraine.

“Ukraine is a piece of shit,” he told a local resident in the 1+1 footage. “There is great Russia. It’s right nearby.”

1+1 also cited Udovichenko as saying that Russian troops would return to Ukraine.

“The entire armada has gone away to Syria, now you sort it out yourselves,” Udovichenko said in the 1+1 video, apparently referring to Russian regular troops being redeployed from Ukraine to Syria.

Michael Bociurkiw, a spokesman for the OSCE monitoring mission in Ukraine, described the incident as a “very unfortunate and very rare occasion.”

“Whatever his personal views, we’re not going to comment on them,” he told the Kyiv Post.

Néanmoins…

Il n’a pas été possible d’ouvrir les bureaux de vote à Marioupol (10h12)

Polling stations can’t be opened in Mariupol over mistakes in voting ballots
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/polling-stations-cant-be-opened-in-mariupol-over-mistakes-in-voting-ballot

The polling stations in Ukraine’s south-eastern town of Mariupol, Donetsk Oblast, failed to open, as the majority of town’s elections commission’s members refused to accept the ballots finding mistakes in some of them.

The commission’s members from post-Maidan parties spent the night at Priazovsky Rabochy printing house, which belongs to oligarch Rinat Akhmetov, to avoid distribution of them to the polling stations.

At about 8 am they were preparing to seal the printing house and wait for the final decision of the Central Election Commission, Galyna Odnorog, famous volunteer and candidate to the local city council from Batkivshchyna party told the Kyiv Post by phone.

’There are the very grave mistakes in the ballots, one candidate is indicated from the wrong party there,’ she said.

She added that the head of the election commission Iryna Yurina demanded to accept the ballots and hand them over to the polling stations, threatening the commission’s members of criminal prosecution for disruption of the elections.

The director of the printing house told the local media that some of the ballots, which the commission’s members found at the polling stations, were defective and they had been not supposed to be used for the vote.

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Néanmoins…
Quelques soucis à Krasnoarmiysk (16h41)
Central Election Commission obliges Krasnoarmiysk branch to immediately hold elections
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The Central Election Commission of Ukraine has ordered Krasnoarmiysk town election commission to hand over the ballots to precinct election commissions immediately and to hold the elections in Krasnoarmiysk.

(intégralité de la brève)

suivi à 17h05

Court stops election in Krasnoarmiysk, rules ballots printed illegally
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/politics/court-stops-election-in-krasnoarmiysk-rules-ballots-printed-illegally-4006

A local court in Donetsk Oblast’s Krasnoarmiysk, just 30 miles west of Russian-controlled Donetsk, ruled that local election authorities have illegally printed ballets. The court ordered polling stations closed in the city of 65,000 people.

The local election commission printed the ballots at a private printing press without supervision. That’s a violation of Ukraine’s election laws, the Krasnoarmiysk court ruled.

However, the Central Election Commission of Ukraine on Oct. 25 ordered the Krasnoarmiysk election commission to hand over the ballots to precinct election commissions immediately and to hold the elections, according to Interfax-Ukraine. However, despite the CEC ruling no election is expected to take place on Oct. 25.

Et diverses irrégularités mineures : absence d’isoloir, campagnes poursuivies hier samedi, longues files d’attente…

▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/ukraines-local-elections-begin-with-reports-of-ballot-problems-live-update

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Poroshenko says Ukraine, Luxembourg to sign agreement on avoiding double taxation
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President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has announced that an agreement to avoid double taxation with Luxembourg will be signed in the near future.

(intégralité)

Je ne sais pas si c’est à cela qu’il pensait, mais voilà une bien belle réforme pour commencer : une convention pour éviter la double imposition avec le Luxembourg.

Certainement impatiemment attendue par les Ukrainiens.

comme tu dis @odilon :-)
@seenthis :-(

je voulais essayer et @seenthis est tombé en carafe

C’est un problème qu’on a déjà eu il y a exactement un an avec l’adresse de ce site ; le correctif étant de mettre son adresse IPv4 en dur dans /etc/hosts sur le serveur… pas ragoûtant ! Et cette adresse ayant changé, paf.