The State Budget of Ukraine has not received 422 million UAH of taxes from Donetsk and Luhansk regions. At the same time, the Government continues to pay off in full all pensions, salaries and subsidies.  This information was announced in the Verkhovna Rada by the Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk on Tuesday, June 3.

The interim President of Ukraine and the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov signed legislation No. 1274 - VII on amendments to Article 36 of the Law of Ukraine on pension provision of persons discharged from military service and some other persons. This was reported by the press service of the President of Ukraine.

Pensioners from Kuznezk study the Internet with an interest; a computer is a usual appliance for them now, almost like a television. The basics of computer competence are taught for free at the city libraries.

Every third European citizen is 55 these days. And more and more such mature people start their own businesses. Ireland  is in the lead in this regard with one very interesting project. 

Peter Kallen is 70, but he just adores jelly beans. In 1998, Peter together with his son Richard established a company producing these jelly beans exceptionally from natural ingredients. The company is the largest manufacturer of this sort of sweets in Europe ...

Prices for medicines in the occupied Crimea have increased by several times. Such growth of prices for medicines had an immediate negative impact on chronic patients and pensioners. Such a rise in price is explained by the appreciation of foreign exchange, pharmacists say. 

The life of pensioners in France

All pensions have been sent to their recipients, says the Pension Fund. It includes those in Donetsk and Luhansk regions. However, there are still some areas there, where people are physically unable to receive their money.

Salaries and pensions can not be payed off in Slaviansk and Kramatorsk. Social payments have been blocked in the troubled cities. There is no opportunity to pay off 9,5 million HUA of pensions and other social benefits because of terrorists, states the Donetsk Regional State Administration. Debts are also growing in the Chervoniy Lyman area.

Pensioners do gymnastics

A series of information and educational videos with an analysis of the election programmes of candidates for the Presidency 2014. A journalist tells about the content of programmes in every video using comments of independent experts. The project was created by the Independent Association of Broadcasters backed by the National Fund for Support of Democracy. Topics of the stories were chosen on the basis of a sociological study

Vinnytsya pensioners get down to organising election campaigns. They do want to be useful on the one hand, and would like to legally earn a bit of money on the other... They consent to chair election commissions and to work as election agents

Lonely pensioners are in need of assistance on a weekly basis

When citizens could receive their social benefits and pensions has become one of the most disturbing questions asked by socially unprotected categories of Slovyansk residents. The management of post offices assures that all pensioners without exception will certainly receive their appropriate funds, but with a delay of several days.