Friday, May 29, 2015

While Russia buries it's dead soldiers in secret funerals, the Ukraine debt looms large over the country.

May 29, 2015
By Nataska Doff

The first proposal (click here) by a group of Ukraine’s creditors to restructure about $20 billion of debt would extend maturities as much as 10 years and reduce interest payments, a person with knowledge of the committee’s thinking said.

While the government in Kiev rejected the bid and stuck to a demand for principal reductions, analysts say it marks a productive start to meeting International Monetary Fund targets and clearing the way for aid to lift Ukraine’s economy out of a recession. The nation’s debt rallied the most in five weeks....

The Russian soldier secret funerals was reported in The Christian Science Monitor.