Sevastopol City Mayor Serhiy Kunitsyn has said that the amount of funds sent to the city's budget as compensation for the stationing of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Crimea should be tripled or quadrupled. "A Cabinet of Ministers resolution

Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has said she will continue building relations between Ukraine and Russia on the principles of observing national priorities and equality. She was speaking at a celebratory meeting dedicated to the tenth anniversary of the Batkivschyna

Trading on the interbank currency market closed at 7.7015-7.733 UAH/USD. According to InterBusinessConsulting, trading in the euro and the Russian ruble closed at 10.762-10.815 UAH/EUR and 0.2373-0.239 UAH/RUR. The National Bank of Ukraine bought the US dollars at a rate

Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has said she will unite the current parliament after the presidential election. "What we have to do with the disunited and disoriented parliament will be the main subject after the presidential election. There are several

Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is confident that a mechanism of paying for Russian gas set from this year gives Ukraine a real independence, she told the grant meeting on the occasion of the Batkivschyna Party's10th anniversary in Kyiv, UKRINFORM reports.

Yuriy Kostenko, MP (Ukrainian People's Party), is proposing to bolster the Ukrainian culture at the expense of foreign performers, but not domestic enterprises. He thus commented on the registration of a bill by BYuT MP Serhiy Teryokhin on the nationwide

A foreign player limit for Ukraine's football Premier League in 2010/11 season has remained unchanged: seven footballers. The decision to this effect was made by the Executive Committee of the Football Federation of Ukraine (FFU). Apart from this, it was

About 7.1 million tons of grain has been harvested in Ukraine. Grain and leguminous crops were gathered from over 2.8 million hectares or 22% of the acreage to be harvested. The average yield is 25.6 centners per hectare. Particularly, over

The biker's music festival Music Bike Ukraine was held in the city. This year there gathered 300 bikers from Russia, Bilorus, Estonia, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Ukraine. During two days the festival participants had an opportunity to watch rock concerts.

The National Barbie Doll Collectors Convention was held last week. Barbie, who first appeared on store shelves in 1959, was celebrating her 50th birthday. "The doll is an inspiration," says dealer Sandy Holder of California. "Barbie's been every career imaginable

The International Parliamentary Conference on European Security launched its work in the capital with participation of VR Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn. In his opening word he stated that the issue of forming the new architecture of European security became highly important

A unique swimming-pool complex is located in the Korabel district of Mykolayiv region and is recognized to be one of the best in Ukraine. In here members of the Ukrainian national team of springboard diving hold trainings, competitions in synchronous

DNIPROPETROVSK. Armenian Ambassador to Ukraine Armen Khachatryan appealed to journalists at a press conference not to warm up a conflict, which took place in the town of Marhanets, Dnipropetrovsk region. In one of the local cafes two companies of local

Pilots of the 299 brigade of tactic aviation, headed by colonel Andriy Alimpiyev prepare for the parade, which will be held in Kyiv on the Independence Day. Eight crews in SU-25 will open the military parade. Now the military pilots,

A "bubble train" rode through the city streets in Uzhhorod. That was the name of a flash mob, organized by the local youth against the closure of Children's railway. The action's participants blew soap bubbles in the city centre and

Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has said that the peak of the global financial crisis has passed. She was speaking at a meeting with representatives of the Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations in Kyiv on Monday, the government's

Summer gives all the people lots of possibilities to have fun and everybody can choose some activity or other. Usually, people go to the seaside or into the mountains, as there they can take a break from work and the

The CIS Interparliamentary Assembly is planning to ask the CIS Heads of State Council to declare 2014 a Year of Taras Shevchenko's Heritage due to the 200th birthday of the Ukrainian poet and painter. The decision was taken at a

The Petrivsky fair was traditionally organized in Chernivtsi. The custom of holding this holiday goes back to 1786, when General Enzenberg approved 2 annual fairs for the newly-joined to Austria city Chernivtsi. In 1940 the tradition was cancelled, but in

Yesterday at the cinema-hall Yuvileyny in Yalta a solemn opening of the memorial sign "Star of Mikhail Pugovkin" and the first Crimean retro-cinema festival Vivat, comedy! took place. The festival is dedicated to the memory of people's artist of USSR