Websites could be given film-style age ratings under government plans to protect children from harmful online content.

Corresponding draft resolution was voted by 265 parliamentary deputies, when 226 votes required.

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The State Property Fund announced this in a statement.

The press release contains no other details.

We decided to prepare documents and allow all categories of citizens, surely except for drug users and alcoholics, to freely buy non-lethal pistols," he said.

William Taylor stated this in an interview published in the Delo newspaper.

The dealers said that the National Bank will be selling foreign currency only for import contracts.

In his words, at the moment police register 25% of infactions.

A total of 219 of required 226 deputies backed the bill "On the state budget for 2009" No.3000.

The relevant draft law, which is entitled "On Amendments to Certain Laws on Issues of Excise Duty," was approved by 236 votes; only 226 votes were required for its approval.

During the previous trading day, the National Bank of Ukraine had retained the hryvnia's official exchange rate that corresponds to the average rate at which transactions are concluded on the interbank currency market at 7.7900 UAH/USD for December 26-28.

The relevant parliamentary resolution (No. 3565) was approved by 380 votes; only 226 votes were required for its approval.

A total of 259 of required 226 deputies backed the relevant draft resolution.

According to currency dealers for commercial banks, the hryvnia's exchange rate fluctuated within 7.4250-7.8150 UAH/USD at the start of the trading, then narrowed to 7.5000-7.6000 UAH/USD, and remained unchanged by the end of the trading.

Positive tendencies in the forex market are visible: we have stabilization of the currency exchange rate; the interbank rate was returned to the level close to the official rate," Yuschenko said during a working meeting with Central Bank Governor Volodymyr

The Lenin district court of Vladivostok handed down a three-year suspended sentence on Thursday to former mayor of the city Yuri Kopylov for abuse of office.

Dalsvyaz, the incumbent telecom operator in Russia's Far East, plans to increase its investment program for 2009 by 21.4% to 3.4 billion rubles, company General Director Anton Kolpakov said.

CHKALOVSKY (Moscow Region), December 26 (RIA Novosti) - Russia has received 12 orders from abroad for Mi-28N Night Hunter attack helicopters and is ready to fulfill any contracts, the head of manufacturer Russian Helicopters said on Friday. Andrei Shibitov added

MOSCOW, December 26 (RIA Novosti) - Moscow police has detained two men on suspicion of attacking a violinist from a famed Russian orchestra, Russian media reported Friday. A member of the Moscow Virtuosi chamber orchestra, Denis Shulgin, was hospitalized with