The Queen and other members of the Royal Family are to spend Christmas Day at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk.

The Northern Fleet's Pyotr Veliky nuclear-powered missile cruiser will become the first Russian warship to dock in Cape Town when it visits South Africa on January 9-12, Russia's Navy said.

Three Russian warships left the Cuban capital of Havana on Tuesday after the first such visit to Moscow's longtime Latin American ally since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The number of test launches for Russia's Bulava ICBM will be increased from three or four to at least five next year, a senior Navy official said on Tuesday.

Yuschenko gave his assessment at a press conference.

In particular, the Cabinet of Ministers will consider feasibility reports on construction, reconstruction, and overhaul of the Kyiv-Kharkiv-Debaltseve-Izvarino highway (М-03-М-04), the Kyiv-Kovel-Yahodin highway (M-097), the Ulianova-Mykolaiv-Kherson-Krasnoperekopsk-Simferopol highway (М-23, М-14, М-24).

Yuschenko said that the last part of the debt will be paid in January-March 2009.

BYT MP Oleh Liashko gave the position of the faction at the plenary session meeting on December 24.

I think this coalition has a good chance to exist even after the presidential election," Taylor said.

Only 219 parliamentary deputies voted for the first reading of draft law No. 3517, while 226 votes required, moreover, the parliament denied to send this bill for repeat first reading.

Ukrainian News learned this from the weather center.

Ukrainian News learned this from a statement by the press service of the Central Election Commission.

Tymoshenko made the accusation at a news briefing.

The Presidential Secretariat's first deputy head Oleksandr Shlapak announced this at a news briefing.

Tymoshenko said this at a briefing.

Ukrainian News learned this from a statement by the press service of Ukrzaliznytsia, the wording of which was made available to the agency.

Ukrainian News learned this from a source in the Cabinet of Ministers.

At the same time, 16.9% is indifferent to the neighbouring state, 9.3% is negative and 2.6% found it difficult to answer.

According to currency dealers for commercial banks, the hryvnia's exchange rate fluctuated within 7.90-8.20 UAH/USD at the start of the trading, then narrowed to 7.90-8.00 UAH/USD, and fell to 7.70-7.95 by the end of the trading.

Gazprom's official representative Sergei Kupriyanov made this announcement during a television link-up.