Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers Petro Krupko has ruled out that the current vacancies at the government can be filled with the representatives from the Party of Regions and the Communist Party, he told the press.He is sure that

President Viktor Yushchenko has said that the Ukrainian banking system has stabilized.At a meeting attended by the leaders of the National Bank of Ukraine and commercial banks, Yushchenko said the situation involving the level of liquidity of commercial banks has

The Ukrainian-Polish agreement regulating the border crossing rules for locals living in districts along the border will take effect from July 2009.Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski says at a joint press conference with German Federal Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier."I can

Former transport and communications minister Yosyp Vinskyi quitted the All-Ukrainian Union Batkivschyna party, reads a statement made by the ministry.On June 17, Vinskyi submitted an application for leaving the party to its leader, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenkom.He provided reasons for

The Cabinet of Ministers is likely to propose the Verkhovna Rada to endorse the bill on the business legal proceedings code.Justice Ministry's press service said the Cabinet endorsed the draft bill on Wednesday.The Code drafted by the Justice Ministry is

Temperature Of +19...+21 C, Intermittent Rain And Storm In Kyiv On Wednesday

In the Carpathians, intermittent rain and southwestern wind of 7-12 m/s with gusts of 20-25 m/s are expected. Temperature will stand at +5...+10 C at night, and at +14...+19 C in the daytime

The government planned to pay compensations totaling UAH 6 billion for depreciated deposits in 2008

Victor Yushchenko stressed that despite positive shift in Ukraine-EU visa relations introduced by the Agreement on simplification of visa regulations around five per cent of Ukrainians willing to travel to the EU were denied visas

The leaders of China and Russia have hailed what they call flourishing ties which, they say, have defied the economic crisis, at a meeting near Moscow. On a visit to Russia over the past few days...

In western Ukraine, cloudy weather with clearings, rain and strong rain in places, storms, hail in places and northwestern wind of 5-10 m/s with gusts of 17-22 m/s are expected. Temperature will stand at +11...+16 C at night, at +20...+25

In western Ukraine, partly cloudy weather, intermittent rains, storms in places and eastern wind of 5-10 m/s are expected. Temperature will stand at +11...+16 C at night, at +22...+27 C in the daytime.

He said that the state structures work efficiently.

Over the last four years, the increase of the obligations of the state grew disproportionately to the growth of economy and the growth of budget revenues," he said.

This was the third launch of Zenith-3SLB from the Baikonur cosmodrome (Kazakhstan) within the framework of the Surface Start Program.

The mass media department of the Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers cited the letter of congratulations by Yulia Tymoshenko.

A Naftogaz Ukrayiny team in Brussels met European Commission officials earlier Thursday to discuss two possible ways of solving the problem, Naftogaz said in a statement.

The resignation, which must be accepted by Parliament, may increase the number of vacant seats in the 25-strong government to four, raising concerns that the government may eventually become incapable.

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It's impossible to change the financial situation of Naftogaz without changing the agreement signed with Gazprom on the gas transit," Yushchenko's economic department said in a report posted on the presidential website.