Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko hopes that an investor for the construction of new terminal at the Lviv airport will be attracted by August, she said at a briefing during her visit to the construction site of new stadium in Lviv,

Experts recommend Ukrainians willing to keep their money to pay attention to the gold, the Delo newspaper reports, according to MIGnews. Deputy chairman of the board at Finance and Credit bank Ihor Lvov says precious metal is a smooth water

The party of Regions again insists on necessity of the parliament's control over the distribution of the loan, granted by the International Monetary Fund. "We can't allow today this money to be used at discretion of a group of politicians

Russian energy giant Gazprom said on Wednesday there were no grounds for reviewing natural gas supply and transit contracts with Ukraine . "I cannot see any grounds for reviewing the pricing and transit conditions," Gazprom deputy CEO Alexander Medvedev told

The Party of Regions faction will block parliament if MPs don't increase the minimum wage, the party's leader, Viktor Yanukovych, said in a statement posted on the party's Web site on Thursday. "The parliament can't go on vacation without increasing

Kyiv will have partly cloudy weather, no precipitations, eastern wind of 5-10 m/s, and temperatures of +18...+20 C at night and +30...+32 C in the daytime on June 29, the weather center has informed Ukrainian News.

I am requesting Our Ukraine people's deputies to revoke the signatures they put in the coalition agreement, and form an Our Ukraine parliamentary group," the president said.

The Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc faction and the Batkivschyna Party - what is their ideology? Their purpose is to take power by all means, even ignoring national and public interests," the president said.

We are calling on Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko either to refuse from running for presidency and concentrate all her efforts on rectifying slip-ups or resign," the resolution proclaims.

In western Ukraine, partly cloudy weather, rain, strong in places, storms, hail in places, eastern wind of 7-12 m/s and squalls of 17-22 m/s in places are expected. Temperature will stand at +12...+17 C at night and at +25...+30 C

LVIV—On 23 June, 2009, a deputy of the Lviv Regional Council representing the Ukrainian People's Party submitted a deputy's address to the Lviv Mayor Andrii Sadovyi with a request to explain on what grounds mass religious events are held on

TERNOPIL—On 20 June, 2009, the session of the hierarchical council of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC) was held in Ternopil. The key issues considered by the council included the question of regulating canonical life of the UAOC in certain

KIROVOHRAD—On 23 June, 2009, a public hearing "Legalization of wizards is an encroachment on the constitution" was held in the town council of Oleksandria of the eastern Ukrainian region of Kirovohrad. The hearing was attended by representatives of various religious

KYIV—On 23 June, 2009, the mayor of Kyiv, Leonid Chernovetskyi, officially passed to the Apostolic Nuncio in Ukraine, Archbishop Ivan Yurkovich, the Right of Ownership of the Holy See (Vatican) a land plot of 0.23 Hectars at 40 Turhenieva Street

OSTROH—New work of the first minister to become a laureate of the Shevchenko National Prize, Archimandrite Rafayil Turkonyak, was presented at the Ostroh Academy. The work is the first volume of a contemporary analysis of the Ostroh and Synodal (Elizaveta's)

President Viktor Yushchenko intends to veto the law on the regulation of the order of referendums endorsed by the Verkhovna Rada, he said at the meeting with students and teachers in Kharkiv oblast.Yushchenko did not call his remarks to this

Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko says there is a tendency of reduction of the unemployment level."Since the beginning of the month, the number of people registered at the employment centers fell 8.2%," , she said opening a meeting of the Cabinet

The parliament has adopted a new version of the Budget Code.The bill sponsored by Mykola Derkach of the Lytvyn Bloc, Pavlo Zhebryvskyi of the Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense, and Yevhen Kyrylchuk of the BYT got the approval of 232 legiskators.The Speaker

He said this addressing the seventh congress of the People's Union Our Ukraine party.