News / MN Newsletter // May 28

May 28, 2019

Russia Ukraine Russia ready for contacts with Ukraine’s parliament after elections — upper house speaker - TASS Hromadske: What caused a feud in Ukraine's new independent church? | KyivPost - Ukraine's Global Voice - Kyiv Post UN tribunal rules Russia must release detained Ukrainian sailors - CNN Russia-led forces mount five attacks on Ukrainian positions in Donbas in past day; one Ukrainian soldier wounded – JFO HQ - Interfax Ukraine Ukrainian sailors detained in Egypt preparing to return home | KyivPost - Ukraine's Global Voice - Kyiv Post Russia ready for contacts with Ukraine’s parliament after elections — upper house speaker - TASS TASS MOSCOW, May 28. /TASS/. Russia is prepared to develop contacts with Ukrainian parliamentarians after the elections to the Verkhovna Rada, but without any unnecessary conditions on their part, Speaker of the Russian Federation Council (upper house of parliament) Valentina Matviyenko told TASS on Tuesday. Read More Hromadske: What caused a feud in Ukraine's new independent church? | KyivPost - Ukraine's Global Voice - Kyiv Post Kyiv Post Hromadske: What caused a feud in Ukraine’s new independent church? Published May 28 at 2:21 pm Filaret, the Patriarch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, conducts the service of blessing the waters of the Dnipro River on Jan. Read More UN tribunal rules Russia must release detained Ukrainian sailors - CNN CNN The sailors and their three vessels were taken by the Russian navy last November. The incident marked a major escalation in tensions between the two former Soviet Republics. Ukraine said two of its small gunboats and one tugboat were attacked after entering the Kerch Strait en route to the city of Mariupol. Read More Russia-led forces mount five attacks on Ukrainian positions in Donbas in past day; one Ukrainian soldier wounded – JFO HQ - Interfax Ukraine Interfax Ukraine 10:10 23.05.2019 Russia-led forces mount five attacks on Ukrainian positions in Donbas in past day; one Ukrainian soldier wounded – JFO HQ Russia-led forces mounted five attacks on Ukrainian positions in Donbas, Ukraine's east, in the past day; one Ukrainian soldier was wounded in action, the press center of the Joint Forces Operation (JFO) headquarters has said. Read More Ukrainian sailors detained in Egypt preparing to return home | KyivPost - Ukraine's Global Voice - Kyiv Post Kyiv Post Ukrainian sailors detained in Egypt preparing to return home Published May 28 at 11:46 am A worker decorates the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Ukraine on July 2, 2016, in Kyiv. Photo by Volodymyr Petrov Read More

Top News Jared Kushner, Google's Schmidt and Microsoft's Nadella to attend secret Bilderberg Meeting - CNBC South Korea Convenes Pan-Governmental Meeting Amid Concern Over Crypto Market Spike - Cointelegraph JPM Develops New Privacy-Enhancing Tool for Payment Mechanisms on ETH Blockchain - Cointelegraph EU-US Privacy Shield complaint to be heard by Europe’s top court in July - TechCrunch For battles with Congress, Trump reshapes legal defense team - Reuters Jared Kushner, Google's Schmidt and Microsoft's Nadella to attend secret Bilderberg Meeting - CNBC CNBC Jared Kushner Getty Images Jared Kushner, senior advisor to the U.S. President, is set to attend this year's Bilderberg Meeting in the Swiss town of Montreux this week. Founded in 1954, the Bilderberg Meeting was designed to foster warmer relations between the United States and Europe. Read More South Korea Convenes Pan-Governmental Meeting Amid Concern Over Crypto Market Spike - Cointelegraph Cointelegraph A South Korean pan-governmental meeting has reportedly been held to establish closer monitoring of the country’s cryptocurrency market amid the recent sharp uptick in crypto valuations. Read More JPM Develops New Privacy-Enhancing Tool for Payment Mechanisms on ETH Blockchain - Cointelegraph Cointelegraph JPMorgan Chase (JPM) — the United States’ largest bank — is reportedly poised to release an open-source extension that enhances the privacy of payment mechanisms on Ethereum-based blockchains. Read More EU-US Privacy Shield complaint to be heard by Europe’s top court in July - TechCrunch TechCrunch A legal challenge to the EU-US Privacy Shield, a mechanism used by thousands of companies to authorize data transfers from the European Union to the US, will be heard by Europe’s top court this summer. Read More For battles with Congress, Trump reshapes legal defense team - Reuters Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump is restructuring his legal team with lawyers more at home in a courtroom than a television studio as he shifts from dealing with Special Counsel Robert Mueller to battling Democratic-led investigations in the U.S. Read More

Feeling mobile? Get the Feedly app and read on the go