2016

Good afternoon! Our meeting with you at the end of the year has become a tradition. The year was saturated, fruitful. But today our communication is not a formal tribute to tradition. This is a real opportunity to discuss what has been done and what challenges lie ahead of us in the future.

Since representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine like Soviet films, I will quote a line from a famous film called “Gentlemen of Fortune”, which can be applied to the Ukrainian law enforcement agencies and can sound as follows: ʺTook up a post, had a fight with a colleague, then resignation. Romance!..ʺ

On December 15, the meeting of the Committee for public support of citizens from southeastern Ukraine, chaired by Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Yuri Vorobyov, was held in the Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.

The Chairman of the DPR People’s Council, the permanent plenipotentiary representative of the DPR in the Contact group at negotiations in Minsk Denis Pushilin took part in “Sunday Night with Vladimir Solovyov” programme on “Russia-1” TV channel.

This weekend a torchlight procession called "Ukrainian Order", organized by the civil body of "Azov," was held in Kharkhov. The activists marched from the Square of the Constitution on the Sumy Street to the concert hall "Ukraine". Torchlight procession ended with fire-show at the park Shevchenko near "Cascade".

At the initiative of the Donetsk People's Republic the meeting of participants of Contact group in the videoconference mode has taken place today. The main question of a meeting was discussion of firing's consequences of Donetsk on the night of December 8, as a result of which houses, the gas pipeline and power lines have been damaged, civilians were affected.

America is a country of surprises, which was especially noticeable this autumn. Firstly, Donald Trump surprised both the United States and the entire world with his unexpected victory in the presidential elections. Many people still cannot believe that such an event can occur in a country, which brings democracy all over the world.

The economic situation is worsening very rapidly in Ukraine. As a result of difficult negotiations, the Azarov’s former government managed to agree on a sale of poultry in the EU market. The duty-free quota for supply of chicken meat was determined after unsuccessful, in my opinion, Ukraine’s position in the protection of its economic interests, which are set out in the document known to the general public as “euro association”.

The tragedy of December 5 in Aleppo has become one of the main informational speculations of the Western press.

On December 11, St. Petersburg hosted the closing ceremony of the jubilee X International tournament on mini-football for children from orphanages and boarding schools in the framework of the nationwide project "Mini-football - to school!"