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Ukraine's First Deputy Foreign Minister Emine Dzheppar comments on progress in talks on crash probe January 8, 2022 marked two years since the downing in Iran of a Ukrainian Boeing 737-800 with 176 people on board. On January 8, 2020, a passenger jet owned by Ukraine International Airlines was shot down by missiles fired by the Iranian military from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Ukraine and the International Coordination and Response Group for the Victims of Flight PS752, which includes the foreign ministers of Canada, Sweden, Ukraine and the United Kingdom, have had difficult talks for two years with…

Adele, who won three of the main awards at the Brit Awards 2022, came to the event in the outfit by Ukrainian designer Marianna Senchina. “So proud to watch Adele gets her Brit Awards 2022 wearing Ukrainian designer Marianna Senchina,” the Embassy of Ukraine to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland posted on Twitter. So proud to watch @adele gets her Brit Awards 2022 wearing Ukrainian designer #mariannasenchina(📸: @RAVIEB ) pic.twitter.com/k8DC6GhUYG — Ukraine's Emb. to UK (@UkrEmbLondon) February 9, 2022 Adele won best album for "30", the song of the year for single "Easy On Me", and…

The Crimean Tatar Resource Center has sent a report on Militarization of the Occupied Crimea and Persecution of the Indigenous Crimean Tatar People to the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples at the UN Human Rights Council. That’s according to a CRC statement posted on Facebook and seen by Ukrinform. "The CRC provided information on the situation of the militarization of the Russian-occupied Crimea, systematic military exercises, deployment of weapons on the peninsula, illegitimate conscription campaigns, and shaping of a war cult among children," the statement said. Read also: Ukraine does not plan military liberation of Crimea, parts…

Netflix bought the rights to stream Rhino by Oleh Sentsov. "Netflix acquired streaming rights to Rhino," Ukrainian film director Oleh Sentsov posted on Facebook. As reported, Rhino is the second full-length motion picture by Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov. The world premiere took place in the Horizons section of the 78th Venice International Film Festival. In Ukraine, the movie was premiered at the Kyiv Critics' Week in the autumn of 2021. Recently, the film won the Best Picture and the Best Actor awards at the Stockholm International Film Festival. The movie is based on a true story of the 1990s in…

The Ukrainian World Congress (UWC) has established the Community Development and Advocacy Fund to support Ukrainian NGOs in the Diaspora. Ukrinform reports this with reference to the UWC website. “Making our communities around the world stronger is one of the UWC’s strategic priorities. Together, we are building Ukrainian institutions, a real Ukrainian world, from cradle to grave. With this newly established fund, the UWC will be able to provide strong support to local community initiatives that advocate for Ukrainian issues and help NGOs in new parts of the world. We’re building communities together,” said UWC President Paul Grod. The Fund…

In 2021, 4.27 million foreigners arrived in Ukraine, which is 26% more than in 2020, Ukrinform reports, referring to the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine. “The State Border Guard Service summarizes the volume of traffic operations in 2021. We are pointing out the figures that reflect the top ten countries in terms of the number of citizens who entered Ukraine last year,” the report reads. Thus, the largest number of visitors arrived in Ukraine last year from the Republic of Moldova - 1.05 million people (up 13%), the Russian Federation – 518 thousand people (up 33%), and Poland –…

In 2021, 53 illegal searches, 366 detentions, 210 arrests, and 478 violations of the right to a fair trial were recorded in occupied Crimea. "Fifty-three searches were conducted in 2021 in the occupied Crimea, including 33 searches in the homes of Crimean Tatars. There were also 366 illegal detentions, 330 of Crimean Tatars. The dynamics remain virtually unchanged as there were 364 detentions in 2020," Head of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center Eskender Bariyev announced at a briefing "Analysis of human rights violations in occupied Crimea in 2021", an Ukrinform correspondent reported. According to him, the Crimeans are mainly detained…

Ukrainian-language audio guides have been launched on bus tour routes in three Portuguese cities - Lisbon, Porto and Sintra. Ukrainian President’s wife Olena Zelenska posted this on Facebook, Ukrinform reports. “How did the pearls of the Portuguese capital of Lisbon - the Belém Tower and the majestic Jerónimos Monastery - survive the devastating earthquake for the rest of the city 260 years ago? How can the millennial town of Sintra accommodate so many palaces? What does the country's second capital, Porto, have in common with the Eiffel Tower in Paris? Ukrainian tourists in Portugal can now hear the answers to…