Ukrainian News learned this from the coalition agreement signed by the three factions, which has been published by the Holos Ukrainy newspaper of the parliament on Wednesday.

The Lytvyn Bloc said that most of the Ukrainians share his opinion concerning this issue.

Ukrainian News learned this from the weather center.

Realizing the need to harmonize the work of the state democratic institutions, the parties of the coalition refuse to introduce the system amendments into the Constitution [in particular, regarding the change of the interagency relations]," the document reads.

The Cabinet will also consider a draft law on amending Article 21 of the Law On Advertisement (advertising medications and medical equipment) and to a draft law on the state regulation of the gambling business operations.

President's vice-agent for international issues of energy security Bohdan Sokolovskyi said that the Naftohaz Ukrainy national joint-stock company has repaid about USD 400 million of the gas debt to the RosUkrEnergo company.

A total of 236 of required 226 deputies backed the bill No.3081 of August 28.

The bill on the whole was backed by 233 MPs.

We must endorse the budget. They say that we do not need the budget... But in this case we won't manage to do anything, in particular, to control the budget funds and attract any loans," he said.

The relevant bill (No. 0074) received 214 votes, but it required at least 226 votes to pass.

In his words, at the today's government session, closed for the press, Yan Bernaziuk was representing the Secretariat.

The Cabinet at its Wednesday session meeting passed the resolution fixing the updated macroeconomic indicators and Ukraine's social development indicators in 2009.

According to currency dealers for commercial banks, the hryvnia's exchange rate fluctuated within 8.5250-8.9150 UAH/USD at the start of the trading, then rose to 8.9050-9.1050 UAH/USD, and rose to 9.3000 - 9.5850 by the end of the trading.

He stressed, the Ukraine-European Union dialogue on introduction of visa-free regime, commenced in late October, is a milestone achievement in the country's relations with the EU.

President Viktor Yuschenko has called for expulsion of the Our Ukraine People's Union party's deputies that support the coalition formed by the parliamentary factions of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, the Lytvyn Bloc, and the Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense bloc.

Roman Zhukovskyi, the head of the Presidential Secretariat's department of socioeconomic development, announced this at a news briefing.

It is difficult to comment on cabinet reshuffling as it is influenced by many subjective and objective factors. Sometimes, political loyalty comes first in assessing a track record of an official. In this light, I believe the first victims of

Every year, Russia and Ukraine pledge to end their high-stakes annual gas negotiations well before winter. And for the fourth year running, the January 1 contract deadline is looming with no agreement in sight...

Sends letters of gratitude to Akhmetov, Poroshenko, and others...

At the moment, there is one way to deal with this situation..."