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Колишньому прикордоннику повідомили підозру за сприяння в незаконному переправленні колишнього президента Петра Порошенка через кордон у січні 2018 року, повідомив Офісі генерального прокурора. Тоді програма журналістських розслідувань «Схеми» (спільний проєкт Радіо Свобода і телеканалу «UA: Перший») розповіла про таємну поїздку тодішнього президента на Мальдіви. 

Підозра колишньому прикордоннику оголошена за частиною 2 статті 332 Кримінального кодексу України (незаконне переправлення осіб через державний кордон України).

«Прикордонник у січні 2018 року надав незаконну вказівку підлеглим військовослужбовцям на незаконний пропуск через кордон України, всупереч існуючого порядку, поза пунктом пропуску, президента України та осіб, що його супроводжували, на відпочинок на Мальдіви», – заявили в прокуратурі.

Згідно з повідомленням, слідство перевіряє причетність військовослужбовця та інших осіб з числа керівництва Державної прикордонної служби України і Управління державної охорони України до переправлення через державний кордон колишніх високопосадовців без належної процедури паспортного та митного контролю.

На початку серпня 2019 року ДБР оголосило про старт перевірки можливих фактів організації незаконного переправлення Порошенка через український державний кордон.

Справа стосується його відпочинку на Мальдівах у січні 2018 року, про який розповідали журналісти програми «Схеми» (спільного проекту Радіо Свобода та каналу «UA: Перший») у своєму розслідуванні «Mr. Petro Incognito. Таємна відпустка президента Порошенка».

Сам колишній президент переконує, що перетинав український кордон у відповідності до норм закону.

 
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Національне агентство з питань запобігання корупції вручило два протоколи про адміністративне порушення президентові Володимиру Зеленському в зв’язку з неподанням повідомлень про суттєві зміни у майновому стані, повідомила пресслужба НАЗК.

За повідомленням, відповідні матеріали будуть передані до суду.

«Президент особисто повідомив НАЗК про факт порушення. Так, після вступу на посаду президента України Володимир Зеленський здійснив купівлю та продаж облігації внутрішньої державної позики (ОВДП). Загальна вартість придбаних та проданих боргових цінних паперів перевищувала 50 прожиткових мінімумів. Таким чином, Володимир Зеленський мав подати до Реєстру декларацій повідомлення про суттєві зміни у майновому стані протягом 10 днів з часу купівлі й продажу ОВДП. Такого повідомлення до Реєстру не надійшло», – йдеться в повідомленні НАЗК від 7 липня.

У НАЗК наголошують, що рівність громадян перед законом «є базовим принципом, закладеним у Конституції України і основною засадою діяльності НАЗК».

Напередодні Зеленський визнав, що не вказав у декларації про зміни в майновому стані.

З 2016 року, відповідно до закону «Про запобігання корупції», президент України, прем’єр, урядовці, депутати, високопосадовці та держслужбовці повинні в електронному вигляді декларувати свої доходи. Національне агентство з питань запобігання корупції (НАЗК) контролює та перевіряє декларації цих осіб, що уповноважені на виконання функцій держави або місцевого самоврядування.
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The United States is too dependent on foreign sources for critical supplies needed to fight the coronavirus pandemic, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s campaign said, promising to bring back production “to U.S. soil.” “Under President Trump, our supply chains have actually gotten less secure,” a senior Biden campaign official told reporters Tuesday.  The official said Biden believes the U.S. relies too much on foreign manufacturers for energy technology, electronics, telecommunications and computer equipment, along with medical equipment. The campaign said if Biden is elected president in November, his plan would begin an immediate 100-day review of the U.S. supply chain, use the Defense Production Act to boost manufacturing of critical products, and create stockpiles of supplies “so that the United States never again faces the kind of vulnerability it did in this crisis,” the official said. The Biden campaign said it is already working on plans to mass-produce and distribute a COVID-19 vaccine, if one is ready, if he becomes president in January.  President Donald Trump has said policies by former President Barack Obama, for whom Biden was vice president, made U.S. supply chains weaker.  But the Biden campaign said Trump policies were to blame for making the U.S. “dangerously dependent on foreign suppliers” such as China and Russia.  
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In his third run for the White House, Joe Biden has finally won a presidential primary in his home state.Biden, the last man standing from a Democratic field that once numbered more than 24 candidates, won Delaware’s Democratic presidential primary on Tuesday, beating Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren.Sanders and Warren both suspended their campaigns months ago, but their names remained on Tuesday’s ballot because they did not officially withdraw as candidates in Delaware by the March 6 deadline. Warren suspended her campaign just one day before the deadline, while Sanders didn’t stop campaigning until April.Pete Buttigieg and Tom Steyer also had filed for Delaware’s primary but withdrew their names in early March.Biden also won New Jersey’s mostly mail-in Democratic presidential primary.Biden faced Sanders on the ballot Tuesday, even though Biden has accumulated enough delegates to become the party’s presumptive nominee.New Jersey’s already-late primary got pushed a month later because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy mandated that the election take place mostly by mail-in ballots.New Jersey’s 14 electoral votes have gone to Democrats in every presidential election since 1988.Tuesday’s victories give Biden another notch in his Democratic delegate belt, although the former vice president became his party’s presumptive nominee months ago after Sanders dropped out of the race.Biden first ran for president in 1987 but dropped out before the first contests of the 1988 primary campaign amid reports of plagiarism in political speeches and while he was in law school at Syracuse University. Jesse Jackson went on to win Delaware’s Democratic caucus.Biden also sought the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination but dropped out of the race after finishing fifth in the Iowa caucus with only 1 percent of the vote. He nevertheless remained on the Democratic primary ballot in Delaware and garnered almost 3 percent of the vote, well behind future boss Barack Obama and runner-up Hillary Clinton.Meanwhile Tuesday, President Donald Trump won Delaware’s GOP presidential primary over Roque “Rocky” De La Fuente, a California businessman and perennial gadfly candidate.The primary elections were open only to registered Democrats and Republicans.Tuesday’s election was the first in Delaware to feature universal absentee voting, with absentee ballots having been sent to every registered Democrat and Republican in the state. Under Democratic Gov. John Carney’s emergency coronavirus declarations, any voter could choose “sick or temporarily or permanently physically disabled” and be eligible to vote absentee.Because of the coronavirus, Delaware election officials also limited the number of polling places for Tuesday’s primary. Kent County, with more than 94,000 eligible voters, had only 12 locations where people could cast ballots in person. Sussex County, with more than 133,000 registered Democrats and Republicans, had 24. New Castle County had 46 polling locations available for more than 315,000 voters. In the 2016 presidential primary, Delaware voters cast ballots at 313 precincts. 
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced this week that international students enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities that switch to online-only courses will have to leave the country or risk deportation. Here’s an overview of what is known about the most recent changes to the Student and Exchange Visitor Program during the pandemic. How many colleges and universities are planning online-only classes?Nine percent of 1,090 U.S. universities — or 98 institutions — are planning for a fall semester exclusively online, according to the Chronicle for Higher Education, which since March has been tracking which colleges and universities will teach online, in person or a hybrid of both.An additional 24% — or 262 — say they are planning a hybrid model (part in class, part online), and 7.2% — or 78 — are undecided or undeclared.Sixty percent – or 654 — say they are planning for an in-person semester. New York University, with the largest population of international students at 19,605, is proposing a hybrid model. Columbia University, the fourth-largest international student population with 15,897, says it is considering multiple options but hopes to return to in-person instruction as soon as it is safe to do so.University of Southern California — with the second-largest population of international students at 16,340 — is planning for online instruction for undergraduates. Twenty-three state universities in California, including University of California-Los Angeles with 11,942 international students, also plan to conduct online-only classes.Northeastern University, with 16,075 international students, is planning a hybrid model, [[  ]] as is Boston University, which has 10,598 foreign scholars.How many students are affected? What is the deadline for them to decide where to live?As of the 2018-2019 academic school year, there were 1,095,299 international students at U.S. colleges and universities, according to the Institute for International Education, which issues an annual report on international students in the U.S. International students make up 5.5% of the higher education population in the U.S., according to IIE.Colleges and universities typically notify applicants of acceptances the first quarter of the year, with most letters going out in early April. Students are expected to commit — including making a deposit to hold their spot — by early May. The COVID-19 pandemic has delayed that process.The states with the largest populations of international students are California, New York, Texas, Massachusetts, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Florida, Ohio, Michigan and Indiana. Some of those states have been among the hardest-hit by COVID-19.What options do foreign students have if their university goes to online-only? Is there an appeal process?Because the visa and university application process is long and complicated, students cannot easily pivot to other schools.ICE, which oversees the Student and Exchange Visitor Program, is referring international students to a “School Reporting and Procedural Requirements” page on the SEVIS website.Meanwhile, the Association of International Educators (NAFSA) has updated its guidance for the upcoming semester: “Some flexibility will continue for schools that adopt an in-person or hybrid model for Fall 2020, but will not continue for students in the United States studying at schools operating entirely online for Fall 2020.”The association adds that a deadline is looming: “[A]ll schools must update their operational plans with SEVP: Schools that will be entirely online or will not reopen for Fall 2020 must notify SEVP no later than Wednesday, July 15, 2020. Schools that will offer an in-person or hybrid program for Fall 2020 must notify SEVP of their plans by August 1, 2020.”What happens to students if colleges hosting in-person classes are later forced to go to online-only?ICE advises, “Schools should update their information in the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) within 10 days of the change if they begin the fall semester with in-person classes but are later required to switch to only online classes, or a nonimmigrant student changes their course selections, and as a result, ends up taking an entirely online course load.”The ICE website adds: “Nonimmigrant students within the United States are not permitted to take a full course of study through online classes. If students find themselves in this situation, they must leave the country or take alternative steps to maintain their nonimmigrant status such as a reduced course load or appropriate medical leave.”What are the financial implications of this new policy for universities and colleges?Universities already weathering big declines in international enrollment and revenues will suffer another financial hit if foreign students are unable to attend. According to the Brookings Institution, international students account for $2.5 billion in tuition and other revenue to American colleges and universities.But their total contribution to the U.S. economy is far larger. The American Council on Education estimates foreign students have economic impact of $41 billion and support more than 450,000 U.S. jobs. Colleges and universities that have the largest populations of foreign students are California (161,693), New York (124,277), Texas (81,893), Massachusetts (71,098), Illinois (53,724), Pennsylvania (51,818), Florida (45,957), Ohio (37,314), Michigan (33,236) and Indiana (29,083) in 2018-2019.What are universities telling international students about this rule change?Many colleges and universities are expressing dismay and pledging to do what they can to assist foreign students.”We are deeply concerned that the guidance issued today by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement imposes a blunt, one-size-fits-all approach to a complex problem giving international students, particularly those in online programs, few options beyond leaving the country or transferring schools,” Harvard University President Larry Bacow wrote the university community Monday.“Our focus and efforts right now are on analyzing the DHS guidance to provide Stanford students accurate and timely information,” Shalini Bhutani, executive director of Stanford University’s International Center, wrote in a message to international students on Monday. “Please know that the Stanford community is committed to supporting international students.” “With today’s update, students with certain visas must enroll in at least one in person course this fall to enter or remain in the U.S. Students who choose to enroll fully online will still be able to matriculate with UCI this fall from outside the U.S.,” wrote Willie L. Banks Jr., Ph.D., vice chancellor for Student Affairs, and Gillian Hayes, Ph.D., vice provost for graduate education in an email to the University of California-Irvine community Monday.  
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