National Bank Chairman Volodymyr Stelmakh considers populist policy to be a serious threat to the stability of the currency market and the Ukrainian financial system.

During her working visit to Moscow, Russia, NSDC Secretary Raisa Bohatyriova had a meeting with Foreign Affairs Minister of Russia Sergey Lavrov and discussed the normalization of bilateral co-operation.

Yuschenko gave his position on the matter in his opening word at a meeting with heads of bodies of self-governing concerning the reform of the administrative services.

According to currency dealers for commercial banks, the hryvnia's exchange rate fluctuated within 7.68-7.70 UAH/USD at the start of the trading, then expanded to 7.70-7.74 UAH/USD, and hardly changed by the end of the trading.

In western Ukraine, partly cloudy weather, intermittent rain in places, hail in some districts, eastern wind of 5-10 m/s and squalls of 15-20 m/s in places are expected. Temperature will stand at +14...+19 C at night and at +25...+30 C

International partners have stressed that further aid to ease gas purchases will depend on continuing reforms in the gas sector," the report said.

According to the ministry order, the cost of registering subscription for periodical publications raised from UAH 0.7 to UAH 0.9 for one month, from UAH 1.65 to UAH 2.1 for two-three months, from UAH 2 to UAH 2.55 for four-six

National Bank Governor Volodymyr Stelmakh sees certain signs indicating stabilization in the Ukrainian financial system.

Ukrainian News learned this from governmental resolution No. 719 dated June 24.

Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko is asking Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko to initiate withdrawal of parliamentary immunity from Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) Deputy Viktor Lozinskyi, who is member of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc faction.

The president said he regrets about the fact that this provocation is launched by Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc Verkhovna Rada deputies.

The State Statistics Committee made this statement.

The main objective of the visit is to deepen bilateral interparliamentary cooperation between Ukraine and Belarus.

Ceyla Pazarbasioglu, IMF mission chief to Ukraine, arrives in Kyiv today for talks on extension of the third and fourth tranches of the stand-by loan to Ukraine.

The meeting was held during the informal meeting of OSCE foreign ministers on the Greek island of Corfu.

She will meat the Russian leadership to discuss a broad range of burning issues of bilateral cooperation in political, security and international areas.

Bloc of Yuliya Tymoshenko MP Oleh Liashko expressed such an opinion past week-end.

Adoption of the Constitution in 1996 has actually marked completion of legal formation of the Ukrainian state, Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn said in his message of greetings to this day.

President Viktor Yushchenko made such a statement upon completion of the 7th congress of the "Our Ukraine" political party.

Ukraine is opening up part of its old KGB archive, declassifying hundreds of thousands of documents spanning the entire Soviet period.