Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine Renat Kuzmin told Kommersant-Ukrayina that porno films were found by investigators in the office of the Lviv judge, Ihor Zvarych, accused of receiving multi-million bribes. R. Kuzmin opts for stripping judges of their immunity to

She stressed, all pensions and wages will be indexed by the inflation rate, and benefits will be preserved.

Ukrainian News learned this from the weather center.

Lytvyn has intention to meet with Russian leadership.

The speaker stressed, he had not consulted with Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko regarding the candidacy for this position.

As Ukrainian News earlier reported, President Viktor Yuschenko applied to the Constitutional Court with a request to give official interpretation of the date for the next presidential elections in Ukraine.

As Ukrainian News earlier reported, the Verkhovna Rada passed the national budget for 2009 on December 26.

Budget Bill No. 3000 on the whole was supported by 226 votes, the minimal number required for adoption.

Harold Pinter, when making an acquaintance, would often say "Many think I died long ago". Yet still in good health, being an unbelievably productive author, Pinter was reckoned among the classics, having taken his position in anthologies and text-editions.

MOSCOW, December 27 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed into law a bill requiring Cabinet ministers to declare their income and property to the tax authorities, the presidential press service said on Saturday. The new law is

MOSCOW, December 27 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian government has allocated 20 billion rubles ($706 million) for regional authorities to buy buses and other vehicles, the regions minister said on Saturday. Victor Basargin said half the money would pay for

The Kosovo parliament speaker calls on Serbia to free 10 suspected former Kosovo fighters it accuses of war crimes.

The head of the British Retail Consortium says shops suffered a poor December, despite successful post-Christmas sales.

A charity football match is held in memory of a man who killed himself after running up debts of £179,000.

Anti-fur campaigners boo singer Katherine Jenkins as she arrives at Harrods to open the famous London shop's winter sale.

Why Stalin is riding high in a poll of Greatest Russians

Customers' dismay as famed retailer begins closures

Next year will be "incredibly difficult" for Scotland's economy, a business group says in its new year message.

Spain says some 500,000 descendants of its civil war-era exiles now have the right to apply for Spanish citizenship.

The government must stop demonising young people in its attempts to promote safe drinking, research suggests.