Editor’s Note: In this daily feature, the Kyiv Post brings together the most relevant news from the morning’s headlines.
Viktor Yanukovych signed a decree for repeated elections in five single mandate constituencies, reports Forbes, quoting the President’s official website. The Central Election Commission has decided that it was impossible to determine who won the elections in these constituencies in October of 2012. The new elections will take place on Dec. 15, 2013.
Ukrainian football fans addressed FIFA asking it not to take three points from Ukrainian football team in World Cup 2014, reports LB.ua. FIFA may fine the Ukrainian team for “discriminatory banners” that its fans displayed during the game with San Marino on Sept. 6.
According to Elena Shcherbakova from the National Bank, Ukraine will pay its debt to the International Monetary Fund in time, writes Korrespondent, quoting Reuters. The reduction of national reserves was planned, not unexpected, says Shcherbakova.
While
Yanukovych and his team move to the Euro integration side, giving the opposition a
chance to declare armistice, like there are no other problems but the country’s
foreign policy course, Ukrainska Pravda writes, the confusion inside the opposition has reached its
apogee. The imprisoned opposition
leader Yulia Tymoshenko, who has become an object of politics instead of
being a subject of politics, has recently opposed the decisions of her party, even one regarding choosing a single candidate to run for president in 2015.
The trade war between Russia and Ukraine continues,
writes Kommersant. Yesterday Ukraine closed traffic from Russia and Belarus carrying
shipments of pork at border checkpoints, citing the high incidence of African
swine fever in those countries. Since neither Russia nor Belarus supply much
pork to Ukraine, it is believe that the move is a direct response to the trade
restrictions imposed on Ukraine by Moscow in July and August.
