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Перший день локдауну в Києві у фото
Від 5 квітня в Києві посилено карантинні заходи через збільшення хворих на COVID-19, зокрема, закрили дитячі садки, школи, а громадський транспорт працює тільки за спецперепустками
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By Gromada | 04/05/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Supreme Court Dismisses Case over Trump and Twitter Critics
The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a case over former President Donald Trump’s efforts to block critics from his personal Twitter account.The court said there was nothing left to the case after Trump was permanently suspended from Twitter and ended his presidential term in January.Twitter banned Trump two days after the deadly attack on the Capitol by Trump supporters on Jan. 6. The company said its decision was “due to the risk of further incitement of violence.”The court also formally threw out an appeals court ruling that found Trump violated the First Amendment whenever he blocked a critic to silence a viewpoint.Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a separate opinion arguing that the bigger issue raised by the case, and especially Twitter’s decision to boot Trump, is “the dominant digital platforms themselves. As Twitter made clear, the right to cut off speech lies most powerfully in the hands of private digital platforms.”Thomas agreed with his colleagues about the outcome of the case, but said the situation raises “interesting and important questions.”The case concerned the @realdonaldtrump account with more than 88 million followers and Trump’s argument that it is his personal property. The Justice Department argued that blocking people from it was akin to elected officials who refuse to allow their opponents’ yard signs on their front lawns.But the federal appeals court in New York ruled last year that Trump used the account to make daily pronouncements and observations that are overwhelmingly official in nature.The case had been styled Trump v. Knight First Amendment Institute, the group that originally sued to challenge Trump’s decision to block his critics.But when Trump left office, President Joe Biden replaced Trump in the case’s title, though the new president had nothing to do with the lawsuit.
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By Polityk | 04/05/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
Синоптики: в Україні з вівторка очікується похолодання, далі – дощі і мокрий сніг
Вже в середу у Києві очікується мокрий сніг і до 6° тепла
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By Gromada | 04/05/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
У МЗС прокоментували затримання у Дубаї 11 українок
У МЗС зазначили, що українські консули працюють з поліцією
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By Gromada | 04/05/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Локдаун по-київськи: влада видала майже пів мільйона спецперепусток для проїзду
Першочергово спецперепустки отримали медичні працівники, рятувальники, працівники комунальної, транспортної та соціальної сфер, працівники торгівлі та військові
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By Gromada | 04/05/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Поліцейські у Києві посилили контроль: перевіряють спецперепустки на транспорті (фото)
У разі виявлення порушень, поліцейські складають адміністративні матеріали, вказали в поліції
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By Gromada | 04/05/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Локдаун у Києві: відсьогодні столиця запроваджує транспортні обмеження, закривають школи і садки
Обмеження діятимуть щонайменше до 16 квітня
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By Gromada | 04/05/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Biden’s $2 Trillion Infrastructure Proposal Faces Challenges
U.S. President Joe Biden recently announced a $2 trillion spending plan aimed at modernizing the nation’s roads and bridges, among other infrastructure. The plan, however, is expected to face obstacles in Congress. VOA’s Michelle Quinn reports.Producer: Mary Cieslak
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By Polityk | 04/05/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
Прогноз погоди на 5 квітня: у більшості регіонів України очікується сонячна погода
В Україні очікують 7-12 градусів тепла
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By Gromada | 04/05/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Energy Secretary: Biden to Push Through Infrastructure Plan if No Republican Support
U.S. President Joe Biden would be willing to push through his $2 trillion infrastructure plan without the support of Republican lawmakers if he cannot reach a bipartisan deal, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said on Sunday. Granholm said Biden would prefer that his plan have Republican backing but, if that does not work, he would likely support using a procedural strategy called reconciliation to allow Democrats to pass it in the Senate. “As he has said, he was sent to the presidency to do a job for America. And if the vast majority of Americans, Democrats and Republicans, across the country support spending on our country and not allowing us to lose the race globally, then he’s going to do that,” Granholm said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” Most Americans currently support the Democratic president’s plan, said Granholm, one of several senior Biden administration officials who promoted the proposal on television news shows on Sunday. Since taking office in January, the Democratic president has repeatedly said he wants to work with Republicans. But the infrastructure plan — his second major legislative initiative — so far looks unlikely to draw more bipartisan support than his first, a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package that passed with only Democratic support last month, using reconciliation. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said last week that Biden’s infrastructure plan was “bold and audacious” but would raise taxes and increase debt. He vowed to fight it “every step of the way.” Republican Senator Roy Blunt on Sunday urged Biden to significantly scale back the plan if he wanted Republican lawmakers’ support. “If we’d go back and look at roads and bridges and ports and airports, and maybe even underground water systems and broadband, you’d still be talking about less than 30% of this entire package,” Blunt said on “Fox News Sunday.” Blunt said he believed a smaller goal, of around $615 billion, would be more palatable to some of his Republican colleagues. Republican Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi joined others in his party in trying to cast Biden’s plan as a tax hike rather than an effort to repair and rebuild the country’s transportation, communications, water and electrical networks. “What the president proposed this week is not an infrastructure bill. It’s a huge tax increase,” Wicker told NBC’s “Meet the Press.” Biden’s plan would raise the corporate income tax rate after deductions to 28% from the current 21%. His predecessor as president, Donald Trump, and Republican lawmakers cut the corporate rate from 35% to 21% in 2017. Trump repeatedly promised to tackle the nation’s crumbling infrastructure during his presidency but never delivered on that. The Biden infrastructure plan’s investments are long-term and badly needed to drive job growth, Brian Deese, director of the National Economic Council, said on the Fox program. The initiatives will serve the country well into the 2030s and beyond, added Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. “Right now, we’re still coasting off of infrastructure choices that were made in the 1950s,” Buttigieg said on NBC.
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By Polityk | 04/05/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
У Львові від COVID-19 померла художниця Вікторія Ковальчук
Сама Вікторія написала 26 березня, що ковід накрив усю родину – маму, її саму та її сина. Син Вікторії повідомив, що вона з четверга, 1 квітня, перебувала в реанімації
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By Gromada | 04/04/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
У японському місті Нагоя відкрили першу українську недільну школу
У посольстві України розповіли, що це перша українська недільна школа в цьому місті і перша така школа в Японії, відкрита за підтримки МЗС
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By Gromada | 04/03/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
У Дніпрі ветеран бойових дій на Донбасі оскаржує рішення міської влади про «погодинні пільги» через карантин
Позивач Олександр Пафомкін вважає рішення місцевої влади таким, що дискримінує пільговиків і порушує чинне законодавство
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By Gromada | 04/03/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
У Києві оголосили переможців кінофестивалю Docudays UA
У національному конкурсі переміг фільм «Земля Івана» Андрія Лисецького про художника-самоука Івана Приходька
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By Gromada | 04/03/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
US, Japan and South Korea Agree to Keep Up Pressure on North Korea
The United States, South Korea and Japan agreed in high-level security talks Friday to work together to keep up pressure on North Korea to give up its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.In a joint statement after a day of talks, U.S. President Joe Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, and his Japanese counterpart, Shigeru Kitamura, and South Korea’s national security adviser, Suh Hoon, reaffirmed their commitment to address the issue “through concerted trilateral cooperation towards denuclearization.”The three countries also agreed on the need for full implementation by the international community of U.N. Security Council resolutions on North Korea, “preventing proliferation, and cooperating to strengthen deterrence and maintain peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula,” the statement said.The national security advisers also discussed the value of working together to address other challenges, such as COVID-19, climate change and promoting an immediate return to democracy in Myanmar, the statement said.The talks held at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, were the most senior-level meeting among the three allies since Biden took power Jan. 20, and it came against a backdrop of rising tensions after North Korean missile launches last week.Biden, whose administration is finalizing a review of North Korea policy, said last week the United States remained open to diplomacy with North Korea despite its ballistic missile tests, but warned there would be responses if North Korea escalates matters.The White House has shared little about its policy review and whether it will offer concessions to get Pyongyang to the negotiating table to discuss giving up its nuclear weapons.However, State Department spokesperson Ned Price said on Thursday that denuclearization would remain at the center of policy and any approach to Pyongyang will have to be done in “lockstep” with close allies, including Japan and South Korea.Biden’s Republican predecessor, Donald Trump, held three meetings with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un but achieved no breakthrough other than a pause in nuclear and intercontinental ballistic tests. Biden, a Democrat, has sought to engage North Korea in dialogue but has been rebuffed so far.Pyongyang, which has long sought a lifting of international sanctions over its weapons programs, said last week the Biden administration had taken a wrong first step and revealed “deep-seated hostility” by criticizing what it called self-defensive missile tests.A U.S. official briefing before the talks said the North Korea review was in its final stages and “we’re prepared now to have some final consultations with Japan and South Korea as we go forward.”Joseph Yun, who was the U.S. special envoy for North Korea under both former President Barack Obama and Trump and is now at the United States Institute of Peace, said the policy options were obvious: “You want denuclearization, and you want to use your sanctions to get to denuclearization.””But how to make the first step, so that at least North Korea is persuaded not to do anything provocative. That’s the challenge.” he said.Some proponents of dialogue are concerned that the Biden administration has not highlighted a broad agreement between Trump and Kim at their first meeting in Singapore in 2018 and warn this could make it difficult to build trust.Asked whether that agreement still stood, the official said: “I understand the significance of the Singapore agreement,” but did not make clear to what extent the issue would be part of the Annapolis talks.The three officials were also expected to discuss a global shortage of semi-conductor chips that has forced U.S. automakers and other manufacturers to cut production.
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By Polityk | 04/03/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
Оголошено короткий список номінантів на премію Ґонґадзе
Переможця назвуть 21 травня – у день народження Ґонґадзе
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By Gromada | 04/02/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Кличко про підтримку бізнесу: «Це відповідальність центральної влади»
Мер столиці додав, що у багатьох іноземних країнах виплати бізнесу під час карантину здійснює уряд
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By Gromada | 04/02/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Economists See Biden Infrastructure Plan Powering Growth; Criticism Muted
President Joe Biden’s plan announced Wednesday to plow $2 trillion into an eight-year overhaul of U.S. infrastructure was met with only limited carping from many voices normally critical of government spending. Meanwhile, economists expressed broad agreement that the plan, as proposed, would power long-run economic growth.It is certainly possible that pumping that much money into the economy, with interest rates near zero and a nascent recovery already taking shape, could cause inflation, said Mark Hamrick, senior economic analyst for Bankrate.com.However, he said, “The other part of the discussion is, there’s clearly a huge risk from failing to address infrastructure needs. And I think most people would say that [inflation] is a risk worth taking at this point.”The proposal outlined by Biden in Pittsburgh would direct $620 billion in funding to transportation infrastructure, $300 billion to boost manufacturing, $180 billion to research and development focused on climate-science research, $174 billion to accelerate the use of electric vehicles, and hundreds of billions more to a laundry list of smaller-ticket priorities.All of this massive spending is only the first half of what officials say will be a two-part effort to invest in the country’s future, with the second piece expected next month. The elements of the Biden plan announced Wednesday would be paid for by increasing taxes on U.S. businesses, while the next round of proposals would be paid for by increasing taxes on wealthy individuals.President Joe Biden speaks about infrastructure spending at Carpenters Pittsburgh Training Center, March 31, 2021, in Pittsburgh.Public sector criticism largely mutedIt is a testament to the widespread agreement on the need for infrastructure investment that even groups adamantly opposed to Biden’s plan to pay for it with a tax increase or concerned about the possibility of inflation were quick to praise the proposal’s breadth and ambition.“We need a big and bold program to modernize our nation’s crumbling infrastructure and we applaud the Biden administration for making infrastructure a top priority,” said Neil Bradley, executive vice president and chief policy officer of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, in a statement released by the organization. “However, we believe the proposal is dangerously misguided when it comes to how to pay for infrastructure.”In an analysis of the plan, Michael R. Strain, the director of economic policy studies at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, called it “admirably ambitious” even as he expressed concern about the way it was being paid for and worried about inflation.“Much of the debate about the infrastructure plans will focus on whether there is political space for another multitrillion-dollar bill,” he wrote. “I am worried about whether there is economic space.”Construction workers work in Wheeling, Ill., March 31, 2021. President Joe Biden on Wednesday unveiled his $2 trillion infrastructure plan aimed at revitalizing U.S. transportation infrastructure, water systems, broadband and manufacturing.Too much economic juice?Strain said that a surge in spending this year and next, temporarily fueled by debt while the tax revenue was collected, could combine with the $1.9 trillion spending in the American Rescue Plan to drive inflation.“Can the economy handle a temporary deficit boost this year and next? That will depend on whether the $1.9 trillion stimulus law Biden just signed pushes the economy too hard, leading to consumer price inflation, higher interest rates and financial instability. I am worried that it will,” Strain said.However, the majority of economic analysts seemed more concerned about what might happen if the administration failed to act.“Most economists are in agreement that the costs will be paid back in the economic productiveness of the expenditures, at least in their totality, if indeed it were to be passed as proposed,” said Hamrick of Bankrate.com. “There’s an economic cost to the lack of investment, not only in infrastructure, but these other areas as well. And that needs to be part of the central argument. There’s a cost to not doing it. And there’s a benefit to doing it.”Inflation? So what?“It’s important to recognize that if the plan works as intended, it should increase the productive capacity of the economy,” said David Wilcox, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. “We’re paying real costs today for our inadequate investment in infrastructure. The investments that are made under this plan should help alleviate some of the bottlenecks in the American economy, and that itself will provide a bit of a pressure relief valve against some of the concerns that have been expressed.”Wilcox, former director of the Federal Reserve Board’s domestic economics division and a senior adviser to three Fed chairs, said that Biden’s intention to pay for his infrastructure proposals with tax increases on the wealthy and on businesses should, by itself, “substantially diminish the potential for this plan by itself to contribute to any kind of worrisome overheating of the economy.”A EVgo electric vehicle charging station is seen at a shopping plaza in Northbrook, Ill., March 31, 2021. President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan calls for building a national network of 500,000 electric vehicle chargers by 2030.He added that even if increased infrastructure investment triggered higher inflation, that wouldn’t necessarily be a bad thing.”The Fed has indicated that it not only will tolerate but indeed welcome some additional inflation,” Wilcox said. “So all of that says to me that now is a good time to err on the side of providing more relief than it might turn out that American families and businesses actually need.”Mission not accomplishedEven though the U.S. economy has begun to spring back, with the unemployment rate falling sharply from alarming highs early in the pandemic, there are still 9.5 million fewer jobs in the country than there were when employment peaked near the beginning of the pandemic.That’s about the number of job losses the U.S. suffered during the Great Recession.“So the jobs deficit, as of today, remains huge,” Wilcox said. “We’ve got a very long way to go before anybody is going to unfurl the ‘Mission Accomplished’ banner on the economy being fully recovered.”Political criticismThe most vocal critics of the Biden administration plan have been Republican leaders in Congress, who claim that the plan is a cover for Democratic priorities not related to infrastructure.”It’s called infrastructure, but inside the Trojan horse it’s going to be more borrowed money, and massive tax increases on all the productive parts of our economy,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, echoing a criticism of the bill he has made many times in recent days, while speaking with reporters in his home state of Kentucky on Wednesday.Wyoming Senator John Barrasso, who chairs the Senate Republican Conference, warned that Biden’s two-step infrastructure plan wasn’t really an infrastructure proposal at all.”Infrastructure means highways, roads, bridges,” he said in an interview with Fox Business News on Tuesday. “They want to do all sorts of social things. They’re talking about free community college, free day care, free senior care and then, of course, the punishing regulations of the Green New Deal. And you add on that all the taxes, that they’re talking about taxes on individuals, taxes on businesses. And they’re trying to resurrect the death tax. The difference could not be more clear.”
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By Polityk | 04/02/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
Biden Taps 5 Cabinet Members to Advance Infrastructure Plan
U.S. President Joe Biden held his first Cabinet meeting Thursday, directing five Cabinet members to lead the way in explaining his $2 trillion infrastructure plan to the American public.Biden, who unveiled the massive program to repair the country’s deteriorating roads and bridges and ramp up broadband internet connections on Wednesday, also instructed all of his agency chiefs to look at their spending plans to make sure “Buy American” rules are being followed, to maximize job opportunities for U.S. workers.Biden Unveils $2 Trillion US Jobs, Infrastructure PlanPresident’s plan aims to put the United States in position to out-compete China and other adversariesBiden named Transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg, Energy chief Jennifer Granholm. Housing secretary Marcia Fudge, Labor Department leader Marty Walsh and Commerce secretary Gina Raimondo to lead the public effort to lobby support for the infrastructure plan.While U.S. lawmakers broadly support infrastructure spending in their states and communities, top Republican congressional leaders are attacking Biden’s plan because he is calling for a sizable corporate tax increase to pay for it, which they contend would ultimately lead to higher costs for consumer products.The White House said 25 people attended Thursday’s meeting. That number included Vice President Kamala Harris and heads of such executive departments as the Department of Defense, Department of State and Treasury Department, as well as other high-level officials, including the director of national intelligence.Instead of convening in the typical Cabinet meeting room at the White House, the session was held in the East Room where there was more space for social distancing amid the coronavirus pandemic. All the attendees wore face masks.In addition to the infrastructure plan, administration officials are working to promote the already-approved $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill that Biden signed last month that includes direct payments to many U.S. households and help for businesses and local governments.
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By Polityk | 04/02/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
КМДА оприлюднила порядок отримання спецперепусток на проїзд у транспорті з 5 квітня
Спецперепустка буде дійсна за умови пред’явлення службового посвідчення, паспорту чи посвідчення водія, за наявності маски і оплаченого проїзду
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By Gromada | 04/01/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Після потепління в Україну йдуть дощі, подекуди з мокрим снігом – синоптики
Температура повітря найближчої ночі 1-7° тепла, вдень 8-15°, а з суботи – зниження на 3-5 градусів
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By Gromada | 04/01/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Biden to Hold First Cabinet Meeting
U.S. President Joe Biden holds his first Cabinet meeting Thursday.
The gathering of top officials comes as the administration rolls out a $2 trillion infrastructure proposal that it hopes will gain congressional approval.
Biden Unveils $2 Trillion US Jobs, Infrastructure PlanPresident’s plan aims to put the United States in position to out-compete China and other adversariesIt is also one week since the last Cabinet member was confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
The White House says 25 people will attend Thursday’s meeting. That number includes the vice president and heads of executive departments such as the Department of Defense, Department of State and Treasury Department, as well as high-level officials such as the director of national intelligence.
Instead of convening in the typical Cabinet meeting room at the White House, the session will be in the East Room where there is more space for social distancing amid the coronavirus pandemic.
All attendees will also be wearing face masks.
In addition to the infrastructure plan, administration officials are working to promote the already-approved $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill that Biden signed last month that includes direct payments to many U.S. households and help for businesses and local governments.
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By Polityk | 04/01/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
У КМДА таки вирішили дозволити рух зі швидкістю до 80 км/год на семи вулицях
«Враховуючи суспільний резонанс, який викликало обмеження швидкісного режиму на низці столичних вулиць, місто спільно з поліцією вирішило дозволити рух окремими дорогами, визначеними рішенням Київської міської ради, зі швидкістю до 80 км/год»
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By Gromada | 04/01/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Президент Радіо Свобода вітає рішення ЄСПЛ, який став на захист журналістки «Схем» Седлецької
«RFE/RL аплодує рішенню, яке захищає конфіденційність журналістської комунікації та встановлює обмеження для виконавчої влади»
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By VilneSlovo | 04/01/2021 | Повідомлення, Свобода слова
Головред «Схем» Наталка Седлецька здобула повну перемогу в ЄСПЛ у справі про доступ до даних з її телефона
ЄСПЛ виніс рішення на користь головної редакторки програми «Схеми» Наталки Седлецької у справі проти Генпрокуратури, слідчі якої в 2018 році хотіли отримати доступ до даних з її телефона
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By VilneSlovo | 04/01/2021 | Повідомлення, Свобода слова
У 2016-2020 роках Україна продала озброєння на понад 4 млрд дол – «Укроборонпром»
В «Укроборонпромі» зазначили, що за цей період жодне підприємство концерну не уклало ні одного експортного контракту з Росією
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By Gromada | 04/01/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
