Arkadiy Babchenko Quit Ukraine

From Strana.ua

Read my recent translation of Babchenko’s Facebook rant, which contains a biographical introduction…

The journalist, Evgeniy Kiselev announced that Arkadiy Babchenko departed from Ukraine. This Evgeniy Kiselev said on his tv show and wrote on Facebook.

On Friday, 1 November, the journalist posted on his YouTube channel the first episode of his programme “PonaUekhavshie” (a play on words that I had trouble to conveniently translate) about Russian emigrants in Ukraine. Evgeniy Kiselev wrote about the programme on Facebook and one of the users asked him why wasn’t Arkadiy Babchenko included in the film. To which Kiselev answered that Babchenko has left Ukraine.

He is either in Finland or in Estonia…

-answered Kiselev when the people inquired about Babchenko’s whereabouts.

The Czech Republic Sends Tens of Millions (CZK) to Ukrainian NGOs

This article is several months old, and that’s when I began doing the translation, and then I forgot. The information, however still remains fresh…

Novinky.cz reports:

The Czech government sent 35 million CZK (1,300,000 USD) to Ukrainian NGOs over the last two years. The money is intended to help the country rebuild and aid her democratic transformation.

The money provided by the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs was intended for the fight against corruption, or for the defense of human rights in the Eastern regions, outside the control of Ukraine and in Crimea. Around 16 million CZK (700,000 USD), the embassy distributed as part of grant challenges to 19 local non-governmental projects.

“The support for these projects has not only brought concrete outcomes but has helped promote the Czech Republic not just in Ukraine but among other donors.” -says the reports of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which the ministers will receive. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Czech Republic has hereby joined the democratic countries that participate in the reconstruction of Ukraine. For example, Germany, the United States, Canada and Japan.

Support for education

More than a million CZK (44 thousand USD), the Czech Republic has relegated for legal defense of Ukrainian citizens in the Donbass. The Czech Republic gave 500,000 CZK (22 thousand USD) for the creation of a map of human rights abuses in Crimea. The Center for Economic Strategy received 1.3 million CZK (57 thousand USD) for a project called Critical thinking against populism.

Another 19 million CZK (800,000 USD) was offered to Ukraine by the Czech Agency for Development. They were mostly directed towards the reform of education, including the renovation of secondary and tertiary education facilities. Especially those that had to leave the area which is not under the control of Ukraine due to military conflict.

For half of this sum, a reconstruction of buildings and equipment for student dormitories was paid. The aid was received by the Donbass National Academy of Civil Engineering in Kramatorsk and the National University of Taras Shevchenko in Starobilsk. The rest of the funds went to the Lvov State University of the Ministry of Interior.

“The Czech Republic affirms its foreign policy commitment to Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity by supporting institutions and human rights of people dislocated by the annexation of Crimea and the conflict in Eastern Ukraine.” -says the report of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. According to the report “the Czech Republic used its own experience of transformation.”

Czech Republic’s aid, which began already in 2014, does not end here.  Last year in June, the government approved the continuation of development and transformation activities in that country. In the memorandum, the government expects 20 million CZK (900,000 USD) this year and in the next two years.

Macron Says he Prefers Legal Migrants From Africa Over Illegals From Ukraine

Deutsche Welle Ukrainian with a reference to an interview Macron gave recently to the French Valeurs Actuelles…

Commenting on the topic of migration, Macron said that he “gives preference to legal migrants from Guinea and the Ivory Cost over illegal bands from Bulgaria and Ukraine.”

Everyone loves the legal immigrant, don’t we? The article further says that some suspect Macron is trying to shore up some right wing support to take away from his rival Marine Le Pen in the next presidential election.

Greek Orthodox Hierarchs Summon a Pan-Orthodox Council to Discuss the Ukrainian Issue

The Union of Orthodox Journalists reports…

The hierarchs of the Greek Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Seraphim of Piraeus and Metropolitan Seraphim of Kythira and Antikythera, wrote a joint letter urging all Primates of the Local Orthodox Churches to convene a Pan-Orthodox Council on the “Ukrainian issue”. This was reported by Metropolitan Seraphim of Piraeus to the Greek online publication ΒΗΜΑ ΟΡΘΟΔΟΞΙΑΣ.

All Local Churches will receive a letter in the coming days, since the “Ukrainian issue” shook the foundations of the Orthodox Church throughout the world. According to ΒΗΜΑ ΟΡΘΟΔΟΞΙΑΣ, hierarchs are calling to convene the Pan-Orthodox Council even without the participation of Patriarch of Bartholomew of Constantinople.

The Metropolitan of Piraeus noted that the unprecedented legalization of schismatics in Ukraine is a crime.

“It is completely unacceptable to assert that the unity of the Church is achieved through ‘reinstatement’ and admission of unrepentant apostates, anathematized and not ordained, secret conspirators and schismatic persons,” His Eminence Seraphim emphasized and reminded that only the Pan-Orthodox Council can have the power to grant autocephaly.

The logical outcome of Poroshenko’s Church diplomacy…