Yanukovych comments after the abortive vote on the Regions ultimatum to raise subsistence level are just nonsense. He has no moral right to offer his comments as, after so much hubbub by the Regions about the importance of raising the

A NUNS lawmaker Eduard Zejnalov says he has no plans so far to quit the coalition with BYUT pursuant to Our Ukraine congress decision passed on June 29. He says he will first discuss it with his voters, Ukrayinska Pravda

Serhy Tihipko, one of the presidential contenders, says that younger politicians, not Yushchenko, Tymoshenko and Yanukovych, will be the main runners in the forthcoming presidential election. Tihipko was speaking to journalists in Lviv July 2, ZIK reports.

As of June 29, a team of water utility experts from Poltava is instructing their Lviv colleagues how to make deadbeats living multi-apartment buildings pay their water bills by disconnecting them from the sewage system. Poltava experts are using a

The leader of the Party of Regions Viktor Yanukovych is not supportive of holding a snap parliamentary election prior to the presidential one, saying both elections should be simultaneous, Ukrayinska Pravda reports.

Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko believes it is the Cabinet of Ministers task to set reasonable prices for milk paid to agricultural producers by the end of 2009. This according to a statement made during the session of government. Tymoshenko stressed

I ask you to return the port fee to what it was before. This isn't the time to increase it when we're in a crisis. We should be supporting our agrarians. Once the crisis is over then you can increase

On BYuT and the government's initiative, today all staff proposals will be brought to a vote. I'm confident that the coalition has enough votes to approve all staffing appointments in the government and state committees. The opposition will also present

On the government's initiative, BYuT has collected 150 signatures in favor of holding an extraordinary plenary session of the Verkhovna Rada on Friday, July 3. Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko announced this during a briefing today. Tymoshenko noted that the agenda

Today we're summing up the implementation of the state budget and revenues to the pension fund for June and I have optimistic numbers that show that the government continues to maintain all balances and that the state's financial discipline is

During a briefing on Thursday, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko demanded that BYuT deputy Viktor Lozynsky give up his mandate. According to Tymoshenko, for there to be an objective and honest investigation into the case filed by the Prosecutor General again

Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is counting on a compromise with the Party of Regions should it be necessary to override the president's veto of the Budget Code. She stated this today during a meeting with heads of village and town

The foreign experts have completed investigation in the office of Ex-President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma within a framework of investigation of the case on the murder of reporter Georgiy Gongadze.

A suspect has appeared in the case on the murder of citizen of Nigeria Julius Ezike, 38.

President Viktor Yushchenko has signed a law on the criminal responsibility for keeping of obscene production.

Valery Oliynyck died as a result of conflict with MP from BYuT Viktor Lozynsky, prosecutor Evhen Horbenko and chief Mikhail Kovalsky in the territory of forest areas in Kyrovohrad Region on June 16. The source in the Prosecutor General's office

The agreement on the light boundary traffic with Poland has become effective.

Within a framework of celebrating 440th anniversary of Ljubljana union President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko has been given the status of doctor of Ljubljana Johann Pavel II catholic university.

The U.S. boxer Chris Arreola invites Ukrainians Klitschko brothers and Russian Nickolay Valuev to hold the duel in the United States of America.

The Prosecutor General Alexander Medvedko signed an order on the reallocation of duties between his deputies: he suspended his deputies Renat Kuzmin and Nickolay Holomsha from being in charge of investigation.