UKRINFORM

Yesterday, Dnipropetrovsk officials met with Chinese delegation of the CITIS Group (the China International Trust and Investment Corporation) to discuss a future project dedicated to Dnipropetrovsk subway construction. The Chinese company hopes for cooperation with the A.M. Makarov Pivdenny Machine-Building

Yesterday, a unique surgical microscope was presented to the Department of Hand Microsurgery of Luhansk hospital No 2. More than UAH 400 thousand were given for this device from the State Budget. According to chief traumatic surgeon of Luhansk Serhiy

Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko has called for the transfer of the right to administrate income taxes of individuals to local budgets, she said at the today's meeting with chairmen of regional state administrations. Tymoshenko stated that new wording

Tarasov Ruslan School leavers let white pigeons out at the Vyshney's comprehensive school No4 in Kyiv region, Ukraine, June 25, 2009. This year, school leavers from 65 schools attended their graduation parties all over Ukraine. UKRINFORM. /TF/

Today, the opposition Party of Regions has blocked the Verkhovna Rada's rostrum and presidium. According to Oleksandr Yefremov, the deputy head of the Party of Regions faction, the party will today demand consideration in the second reading of the amendments

Jackson had been due to start a series of comeback concerts in London on July 13 running until March 2010. The singer, whose hits included "Thriller" and "Billie Jean" had been rehearsing in the Los Angeles area for the past

Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko suggests setting up a Student Council at the Cabinet of Ministers, as the Government portal reported. The initiative to this effect was advanced by the Premier during her meeting with the magistral staff and

Yesterday, being on working visit to Zaporizhzhya, Leader of the Party of Regions, MP Viktor Yanukovych visited the Svyato-Pokrovsky Cathedral, OJSC "Motor-Sych" and the factory of semiconductors

An official weigh-in procedure of boxers on the eve of the professional boxing tournament "World Boxing in Lviv" of the K2 East Promotions company, world brand Nemiroff and the media group Inter, took place in Lviv. Today, on June 27,

The final date when the Lviv airport's terminal construction must begin is July 30, as reported by Head of the Lviv RSA Mykola Kmit. He also stated that the issue of the new terminal preparation took too much time, that

Participants of the visiting session of the Ukrainian National Committee of the International Commercial Chamber (ICC Ukraine) visited the Enerhoresurs-invest corporation. Representatives of the ICC administration, the Board of Entrepreneurs at the CMU, the Lviv Regional State Administration, the regional

President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko with his wife Kateryna attended a report concert of the Zaporizhzhya region artists, which took place within the framework of the Arts Festival of Ukraine. The Head of State thanked all the festival's participants and

As a result of the weather conditions worsening, in particular heavy rain and wind blasts, in 15 regions 760 inhabited localities were cut off from current: in Kyiv region - 245, in Vinnytsya - 148, Kirovohrad - 101, Cherkasy -

The Main Regional Administration of the Emergencies Ministry launched an action Zapobihty! Vryatuvaty! Dopomohty! (Prevent! Rescue! Help!) in the children's holiday camp Lyubych, situated in the village of Litky, Brovary district. The rescuers made children acquainted with the rules of

The leader of the Front for Change initiative, Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense Bloc MP Arseniy Yatseniuk, said that the crisis in Ukraine is escalating, rather than ending, according to Interfax-Ukraine. "I clearly understand that the crisis will continue moving, and, as

President Victor Yushchenko held a consultative meeting on preparation of Kyiv to host events of EURO 2012 on Thursday, the president's press office reported. The participants of the meeting, which took place at the reconstruction staff of the 'Olimpiysky' National

Ukraine has fully fulfilled its duties on the transit and purchase of Russian gas according to the contracts signed in January, President's Envoy on Energy Security Bohdan Sokolovsky has stated, according to Interfax-Ukraine. On the other hand, taking onto account

National JSC Naftogaz Ukrainy would take part in an open auction on the sale of an 18.296% stake in OJSC Ukraine's Ukrtatnafta (Kremenchuk Oil Refinery in Poltava region), the press secretary of the state holding, Valentyn Zemliansky has told Interfax-Ukraine.

Having appointed the "cold pragmatist" Mikhail Zurabov to succeed the "sentimental" Viktor Chernomyrdin, Moscow is realizing a strategy to buy up cheap financial and industrial assets in Ukraine, Director of the Institute of Global Strategies Vadym Karasiov told Interfax-Ukraine on