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photo by Fotobank/Getty Images The President of Ukraine did not specify when exactly the early elections will take place. On February 21, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych officially announced that he would initiate early presidential elections and a return to the 2004 constitution with a redistribution of part of the presidential powers towards a parliamentary republic in order to restore calm in the country and avoid further casualties of the confrontation.

Sberbank has temporarily stopped issuing loans in Ukraine to individuals and legal entities “off the street” since February 20, Sberbank head German Gref told reporters on Friday. He noted that companies and residents of Ukraine “now have no time for loans,” ITAR-TASS reports . “Of course, we provide it to large companies that require financing,” Gref said. According to Gref, Sberbank’s subsidiary bank in Ukraine is generally operating as normal.

photo East News/AFP It hardly makes sense for the parents of the new Jan Koum to stay in today’s Ukraine It just so happens that these days news is coming simultaneously about dozens of new deaths on the streets of Kiev - and about Yan Kum, a native of Ukraine , who at the age of 37 became a billionaire: the company WhatsApp founded by him is being bought by Facebook for $19 billion. Kum, according to Forbes, has 45% of WhatsApp.

Ukraine refused to issue Eurobonds worth $2 billion, planned for placement on the Irish Stock Exchange as part of attracting the next tranche of a Russian loan in the amount of $15 billion, the UNIAN agency reported on Friday, citing an ISE press release. “Despite the approval and publication by the Central Bank of Ireland of the prospectus for the issue of Eurobonds on February 17, the issuer confirmed with this message that the securities will not be issued,” the exchange said in a statement.

Photo by RIA Novosti To win, the Ukrainian president needs to rebuild his regime along the Russian model, but he no longer has time for this Yesterday, Viktor Yanukovych with his sons and his inner circle decided to “quickly” turn Maidan into Tiananmen. For the sake of tactical gain in negotiations with the opposition, he chose the worst possible strategic option. Worst for both him and the country.

Russia has decided to postpone the provision of the second tranche of financial assistance to Ukraine in the amount of $2 billion, since in the current situation it does not understand how Kiev will spend these funds, the head of the Russian Ministry of Finance Anton Siluanov said in an interview with Bloomberg in Hong Kong. Siluanov recalled that Russia planned to allocate the next tranche as part of the decision to provide $15 billion in aid to Ukraine.

The agreement to resolve the crisis in Ukraine, which the parties to the conflict agreed to initial at negotiations in Kiev on Friday night, provides for voting to change the constitution in September 2014 and holding early presidential elections in December, said the leader of the Party of Regions faction, Alexander Efremov, in an interview with the agency “ Interfax" on Friday.

Deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Friday, February 21, adopted a law on the return of the Constitution of Ukraine in the 2004 edition, which provides for the redistribution of powers towards a parliamentary republic, Interfax -Ukraine reports . 386 deputies voted in favor, one parliamentarian abstained, and 10 deputies did not vote. The 2004 version of the Constitution was adopted during the Orange Revolution.

photo ITAR-TASS For the country's largest Hrazdan thermal power plant and Electric Networks of Armenia, Gazprom's subsidiary may pay €50 million, Forbes sources say Gazprom Energoholding is negotiating with Inter RAO about purchasing the company's assets in Armenia, a source close to one of the companies told Forbes. For the country's largest Hrazdan thermal power plant and Electric Networks of Armenia, Gazprom's subsidiary is ready to pay €50 million, he said.

Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Lieutenant General Yuriy Dumansky, resigned in protest against the military being drawn into the conflict in the country, reported on Friday. the Ukrainian Internet portal LB.ua “Indeed, I confirm that I wrote a report,” the publication quotes him as saying.

Former co-owner of Pushkino Bank and ex-business partner of Sergei Polonsky, Alexey Alyakin, got rid of his last banking asset by selling his stake in Unicorbank, the Vedomosti newspaper reported on Friday, citing one of the entrepreneur’s creditors. The publication, citing sources close to the bank's minority shareholders, reported that Alyakin controlled almost 60% of Unicorbank through trusted people.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree allowing the receipt of a foreign passport to be marked on two pages of the main identification document of a Russian citizen, the reported on Friday, February 21. government press service According to the resolution, a mark on the international passport can be placed on the 18th and 19th pages of the passport. The changes will allow people to use their Russian passports for a longer period of time.

The Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow on Friday found all eight defendants in the “Bolotnaya case” guilty in the case of mass riots on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012. There are eight people in the dock. These are Andrey Barabanov, Stepan Zimin, Denis Lutskevich, Yaroslav Belousov, Artem Savelov, Sergey Krivov, Alexandra Dukhanina and Alexey Polikhovich.

Since the start of clashes between protesters and security forces in Kiev on February 18, according to the latest data, 77 people have died, reported the press service of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine on Friday, February 21. 369 victims were hospitalized, a total of 577 people consulted doctors.