Yulia Tymoshenko gave the heads of regional state administrations a week to revise the infrastructure projects which are worked through but not financed and proposed to resume negotiations with the biggest world corporations which can be investors. "We'll do our

Governments of Ukraine and Sweden signed two cooperation memorandums in the sphere of energy and environmental protection. The documents were signed summing up the meeting of Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko with Prime Minister of Sweden Frederik Reinfeldt.

The Head of Ukrainian Government also thanked Per Westerberg for launching East European partnership and thereby distinguishing Ukraine among other states heading for the EU integration. Yulia Tymoshenko noted that Ukraine should sign with the EU an Association Agreement and

Overnight, November 20 Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko met with heads of the leading Swedish companies and banks and Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Sweden Carl Bildt. During the meeting issues on bilateral relations were discussed

The Head of Government to hold negotiations with Prime Minister of Sweden Frederik Reinfeldt and meet with Speaker of the Swedish Riksdag Per Westerberg. Yulia Tymoshenko will also visit the ecoregion of Stockholm Hammarbi and the telecommunications concern Ericsson.

We have common will that Ukraine signs an agreement on associated membership in the EU next autumn," the Premier of Sweden stressed. He emphasized that Ukraine's Eurointegration aspirations is backed up by all countries of Europe and wished fruitful cooperation

USA—On 18 November 2008, in the town of Well Cottage, New York State ( USA), the fifth All-Abroad Sobor (Council) of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad (ROCA) opened. Metropolitan Ahafanhel of southern Ukrainian Odesa was on 19 November elected the

Vatican—On 7 October 2008, the highest tribunal of the Catholic Church, the Apostolic Signatura, gave its response to the request of the so-called "Pidhirtsi fathers" to review the legitimacy of the great excommunication penalty imposed on them by the tribunal

Kyiv—In his letter to the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP), Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko thanked Metropolitan Volodymyr (Sabodan) for the address of the Synod of the UOC-MP on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Holodomor

Kyiv—The head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) presented Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko with a jubilee order issued on the occasion of the 1020th anniversary of the baptism of Kyivan Rus. During a meeting at his residence, Metropolitan Volodymyr

Vinnytsia— The Catholic Media Center and Klara TV studio have been run by the Capuchin brothers in central Ukrainian Vinnytsia for 15 years. This year, on 2 November, Klara Studio launched a new children's project, Antivirus for Children, on the

Lviv—During a session of the City Council of western Ukrainian Lviv on 20 November 2008, a deputy of the Pora (It's Time) faction read an address to Ukraine's president presenting Pora's initiative to grant the status of "repressed church" to

Ukrainian News learned this from Yuschenko's address to the nation posted on the Web site of the president.

The five presidents addressed an international forum entitled "My Nation Will Live Always" in Kyiv on November 22.

Yuschenko said this in his address to the Ukrainian nation.

Sergei Kuprianov, the spokesman for Gazprom, gave the position of the Russian gas monopolist on the Russian Vesti television channel.

Ukrainian News learned this from the weather center.

The plane of Saakashvili landed at about 17:30 at Boryspil international airport near Kyiv.

On behalf of the Ukrainian state I am expressing gratitude to all countries and international organizations that have recognized the Holodomor of 1932-1933 as an act of genocide, condemned it as crime against humanity, and commemorated millions of victims," President