Chief Designer of Ukraine's Antonov Design Bureau Dmytro Kiva and President of France's Dassault Systemes S.A.S. Bernard Charles have signed a memorandum of mutual understanding in a strategic partnership.

over 5 months of 2009 by 59.31% against the same period of 2008 to UAH 2.6 billion (excluding the funds received in the form of state support), the Coal Industry Ministry reports.

Realization of a concept for preparation of volunteers to the UEFA European U-19 Championship in Donetsk region (East Ukraine) was highly appraised by the UEFA, Regional Council Deputy Chairman Ihor Koval informed.

Ukraine and Serbia announced plans to set a no-visa regime, President Viktor Yushchenko, currently on a working visit to Serbia, has said after a meeting with his Serbian counterpart Boris Tadic in Novi Sad.

The decision was taken at a government meeting on June 17, Agriculture Minister Yuriy Melnyk has said.

The Great Council of European Metallurgists was held in Kramatorsk (Donetsk region, East Ukraine).

Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has signed a decree on some issues of the interdepartmental commission on information policy and information security under the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC).

After visiting Lviv, Iziaslav and Khmelnytsky, a 15kg UEFA Cup, gained by FC Shakhtar Donetsk in May 2009, will move on June 19 to Dnipropetrovsk and Lozova (Kharkiv region) on June 20, according to FC Shakhtar Donetsk press-service.

A border crossing point has been opened at the Sokolnyky aerodrome on the territory of Kharkiv State Aircraft Manufacturing Company (East Ukraine). The Ukrainian government took a respective resolution on June 17.

One of leaders of the oppositional Party of Regions Mykola Azarov considers leader of the Front of Changes initiative Arseniy Yatseniuk as в the most competent competitorв to Viktor Yanukovych at the presidential elections.

The Kyiv City Council approached the Verkhovna Rada asking to equate beer and low alcohol drinks to alcoholic beverages, the Kyiv Council address to the Verkhovna Rada, the Cabinet and the President reads that was adopted at the Kyiv Council

The sum declared by Ukraine's enterprises for VAT refund over five months of 2009 totaled UAH 19.3 billion (USD 1 - UAH 7.61), says Serhiy Buriak, Head of the State Tax Administration.

A в scandalв news that the International Monetary Fund Mission will not allegedly arrive in Ukraine within the earlier announced terms appeared to be inauthentic.

Embilight in Concert (Post-Rock), Xlib (12 Frunze), 26 June at 20.00 The band got off to it's first steps on a bit of an unpredictable road of underground music culture in 2007. The two years they have been onstage has

KYIV, June 19 /UKRINFORM/. Ukraine has called for the work of Europe's energy markets to be based on single rules and equal access for all players, President Viktor Yushchenko said at a plenary meeting of the 16th summit of the

KYIV, June 19 /UKRINFORM/. Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has said that Ukraine should find its proper place in united Europe. Ukraine cannot agree with any attempts to determine so-called "zones of influence" for itself, as well as any other countries

Kyiv, June 19 (Interfax-Ukraine) - The Ukrainian crewmembers of the aircraft recently detained in Nigeria have not been arrested, but were placed in a retiring room at Aminu Kano International Airport when checks on the circumstances of the plane's arrest

KYIV, June 19 /UKRINFORM/. Ukraine supports Serbia's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), President Viktor Yushchenko has said this at a joint press-conference in Novi Sad with his Serbian counterpart Boris Tadic, the presidential press-service reports. Viktor Yushchenko noted

KYIV, June 19 /UKRINFORM/. Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has called for a review of the gas transit rate formula between Naftogaz of Ukraine and Gazprom of Russia. "The introduction of the normal European gas transit rate is what is needed

KYIV, June 19 /UKRINFORM/. The average gas price for Ukraine in 2010 will be around USD 230 per 1,000 cu m, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has said today in Kyiv. According to her, a mechanism will be introduced next year