The president must have muscle enough to run the country efficiently. To get the muscle, the constitution must be changed, presidential candidate Anatoly Hrytsenko told The BBC weekly Nov. 30. However, even under the present circumstances, the incumbent has enough

As of Dec. 1, bearers of the Hero of Ukraine medal will start receiving government bonuses, Premier Tymoshenko said Nov. 30, addressing a conference on social protection of miners and veterans.

If anybody has a grey cat with stripes I would take it as a present to bring it home a show the Tiger is saved, so as to see my son and girls stop crying," the president said.

The death of Valyantsin Douner raises many questions.

Tax inspection of Zavadski district of Minsk demands "Young Belarus" leader Artur Finkevich to account for the amount by which his expenditures exceed revenues.

BelTA, the official news agency, publishes today the extended text of Alyaksandr Lukashenka's interview to the Italian newspaper La Stampa.

Lukashenka's regime has unleashed the war against its own nation, and it is to result in the collapse of the dictatorship inevitably, the leader of "European Belarus" is convinced.

Uladzimir Lemesh was caught in the center of Minsk on November 27, forced to get into a car without license plates and taken out of town.

Today Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is arriving in Belarus to meet with Lukashenka.

According to the sanitary and epidemiological station, the indicators of the epidemic growth are 1.6 times lower the epidemic threshold.

In western Ukraine, cloudy weather with clearings, no precipitations, and southeastern wind of 7-12 m/s with gusts of 15-20 m/s in places, of 25-30 m/s in Carpathians, and of 40 m/s in uplands are expected. Temperature will stand at +1...+6

Ukrainian News learned this from a statement by the Health Ministry.

KYIV, November 30 /UKRINFORM/. Two Ukrainian athletes have won 5 medals at the World Weightlifting Championships 2009 in Goyang, South Korea. Artem Udachin (105kg +) grabbed the sliver medal in the jerk event. The strike-event bronze went to Ihor Shemchenko.

KYIV, November 30 /UKRINFORM/. The draft campaign 'Autumn 2009' has completed in Ukraine with 26,450 boys drafted in the Armed Forces and other military formations, the Defense Ministry has announced. Thus, 19,500 persons have been called up to the Armed

KYIV, November 30 /UKRINFORM/. Kharkiv State Aircraft Manufacturing Company (KSAMC) has produced another military transport aircraft Аn-74Т-200А for Egypt. This liner has already performed a test flight, according to Andriy Platonov, chief of the KSAMC press-service. "This is a second

KYIV, November 30 /UKRINFORM/. Ukraine must transit gas on the European conditions, President Viktor Yushchenko told Friday's TV show Big Politics on the Inter TV Channel. He stressed that problems in gas relations between Ukraine and Russia need 'a fundamental,

KYIV, November 30 /UKRINFORM/. There was one Ukrainian citizen among the passengers of the derailed Nevsky Express train. The Ukrainian was taken into the Borovichy hospital (Russia), the 5th Channel has reported quoting the Foreign Ministry. According to Moscow Vice