The first vice PM Oleksandr Turchynov is not against of presidential election on January 17, 2010. He said that on air of TV channel, answering the question whether BYuT will support idea on presidential election for November 2009, the ForUm's

At his joint press conference with the President of Serbia Boris Tadic President Victor Yushchenko said that Ukraine supports Serbia in its aspiration to join the WTO, president's press office reported. "This is our brotherly nation, we have long common

Ukrainian Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko has said that the police will not support any political force during the presidential campaign, ForUm informs, referring to Interfax-Ukraine. "I think that everybody who remembers my activity as Ukraine's interior minister in 2006, when

Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko says that the total internal debt on gas payments to Naftogaz Ukraine makes UAH 26 billion, including UAH 7.7 billion debt of heating and communal companies. Yulia Tymoshenko said that today during the meeting

Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko calls the situation with payments for consumed gas as "very complicated". "I gathered you because I think the situation on gas payments is a very complicated, tense and even dangerous," Prime Minister said that

New Dynamo Kyiv coach Valery Gazzaev hopes to take Andriy Shevchenko back to the Ukrainian championsm according to Mail online. The Chelsea striker is unwanted at Stamford Bridge and the club are considering paying up £7million to cancel his contract.

Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko is preparing lawsuits against several Ukrainian politicians regarding their comments on the so-called "Frankfurt incident," the minister said on Thursday in Lviv, Kyiv Post reported. "I'm preparing law suits against several Ukrainian politicians who accused me

As of January 1, 2009 the number of Ukraine's resident population was 45,963,359 people (after 46,192.3 as of January 1, 2008, and 45,881,048 as of May 1, 2009), the State Statistics Committee reported. The number of women exceeded the number

For five month of the current year the bodies of the Interior affairs of Ukraine revealed 4800 crimes concerning theft of the state money, the head iof the Interior Ministry Yuriy Lutsenko informed. "It is much bigger than last year.

Yuschenko said that over the years of his presidentship, Ukraine became closer to Europe.

This system was commissioned in a testing mode on April 15.

Chernomyrdin said this at a press conference.

Yuschenko gave his position to the press in Serbia.

Ukraine and Serbia are intending to arrive at an agreement on the creation of a free trade area this fall, President Viktor Yuschenko told the press after a meeting with Serbian President Boris Tadic in Serbia.

The source disclosed no other details.

In western Ukraine, partly cloudy weather, rain and strong rain in places at night in Volyn and Rivne regions, no significant precipitations in other western regions, intermittent rain in the daytime, storm, hail in places and southwestern wind of 7-12

In particular, the company introduced additional trains No.220 bound for "Chernivtsi-Ivano-Frankivsk-Kyiv," No.524/523 "Luhansk-Kyiv," No.277 "Kharkiv-Kyiv," No.286/285 "Kyiv-Simferopol," and No.546 "Simferopol-Kharkiv."

Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko announced this at a meeting on payment for natural gas.

This variant is not ruled out. There are a number of factors, which can prevent from this and provoke this at the same time," Viacheslav Yutkin, the first deputy board chairman of Prominvestbank, said.

According to currency dealers for commercial banks, the hryvnia's exchange rate fluctuated within 7.61-7.66 UAH/USD at the start of the trading, then narrowed to 7.61-7.64 UAH/USD, and to 7.61-7.63 UAH/USD by the end of the trading.