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Russia Signals More Military To Belarus as Ukraine Briefly Cuts Power To Crimea
Russia Signals More Military To Belarus as Ukraine Briefly Cuts Power To Crimea.
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Ukraine has signed a $17 billion loan deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), but could need another $15 billion to stay afloat, with a bond repayment looming in March.
Culverhouse and Christensen said the prospect of further aid for Ukraine made its debt looked attractive compared to high-yielding alternatives like Venezuela and Argentinathe latter of which suffered a partial default this year.
"There are good geo-political arguments as to why the official sector may stump up the additional financing," the economists wrote.
Ukraine's economy is seen shrinking 5 percent this year. Its currency has tumbled over 90 percent against the U.S. dollar, as inflation spirals and the country faces a cold winter without cheap gas supplies from Russia.
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IMF representatives are due to return to Kiev for talks next month. Further aid will be conditional on the country progressing with both political and economic reforms.
Earlier this month, a leading Ukrainian official told CNBC the risk of a default was "minimal". Dmytro Shymkiv, deputy head of presidential administration, argued that 95 percent of the country was unaffected by the military conflict in east Ukraine, and hinted at the prospect of forthcoming IMF financial assistance.
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"We do have economic difficulties, but that is something that is going into the debate with the IMF," Shymkiv told CNBC on December 12.
However, Moody's Investors Service warned on Tuesday that the risk of a default was rising, with new credit from the IMF, the European Union and other official lenders likely to prove insufficient to cover debts.
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Dec. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Ukraine has urged the Crimean Peninsula to adhere to limits on power usage, Energy Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn said at a weekly government meeting in Kiev. RBC Capital Markets Helima Croft and Strategic Resource Group Managing Director Burt Flickinger speak on Bloomberg Surveillance. (Source: Bloomberg)
Talks on ending the more than eight-month conflict in Ukraine resumed after the countrys parliament angered Russia by voting to cancel its non-aligned status.
Ukrainian and pro-Russian separatist representatives met today in Minsk, Belarus, along with diplomats from Russia and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to discuss implementing agreements on prisoner exchanges and the withdrawal of heavy weaponry. The talks ended for the night, and participants left the venue without commenting to reporters.
We hope that these efforts will in the end lead to the stabilization of the situation, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov told reporters in Moscow today.
A two-week truce has tempered the bloodshed in a conflict that has killed more than 4,700 people since April in fighting between government forces and separatists in Ukraines eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Ukraines parliament yesterday moved to drop the countrys neutral status, which Russia denounced as a step toward seeking membership of NATO.
The legislation put forward by President Petro Poroshenko was supported yesterday by 303 of 357 lawmakers in the chamber, hours after the announcement that the Ukraine contact group would meet today and Dec. 26 in Minsk.
Foreign Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin, top right, and deputies of Ukrainian Parliament react after a vote for a bill dropping Ukraine's non-aligned status in Kiev on Dec. 23, 2014. Close
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Foreign Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin, top right, and deputies of Ukrainian Parliament react after a vote for a bill dropping Ukraine's non-aligned status in Kiev on Dec. 23, 2014.
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