The agenda of his stay foresees a number of meetings with Ukraine's top officials, including President Viktor Yushchenko, Premier Yulia Tymoshenko, Parliament Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn, as well as opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych, and ex-speaker now running for president Arseniy Yatsenyuk.

The city continues its active preparations for the UEFA EURO 2012. The central streets are being widened and tram rails are being demounted

Due to lack of money works at the Prykarpattya objects, which were affected by the last year's flood, were suspended. About 30% of damaged roads and 40% of ruined and 15% of damaged bridges, 15% of ruined and 20 %

Ukrainian Premier Yulia Tymoshenko held an unplanned meeting with Vice President of the USA Joseph Biden in a tete- -tete format, which lasted for over an hour. After it winded up a meeting in enlarged format started. From Ukrainian side

5 million tons of grain were threshed in Ukraine. Early cereal and pulse crops were hacked from the territory of over 4,9 million hectares, which is 34,9% from the planned number. The average grain productivity in Ukraine is 26,4 hundreds

BELGOROD. Ukrainian Ambassador to the Russian Federation Kostyantyn Hryshchenko went to Belgorod region within the framework of his official visit to the Russian regions, located at the state border with Ukraine. In there he got acquainted with the work of

The youth national football team of Ukraine yesterday played the first match against Slovenia in the Group A within the framework of the UEFA European Under-19 Championship in Donetsk. After an edgy opening Ukraine largely enjoyed the better of the

President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko had a working lunch with Vice President of the USA Joseph Biden, during which they continued discussion of the topical issues of Ukrainian-American relations. In particular, they spoke about activation of bilateral political dialogue, cooperation

Yesterday late in the evening Head of the SSU Valentyn Nalyvaychenko reported to President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko on detention of the former head of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry's Department of External Surveillance and Criminal Intelligence Oleksiy Pukach, as reported

One gold and two bronze medals were added by acrobats to the Ukrainian active at the VIII World Games in Non-Olympic Sports. The best among men's gymnastics acrobatics pairs was the one of Popov-Shcherbak, which gained 28,924 points. Bronze medals

Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko reported on a certain stable increase in the country's industrial production. In her opinion, this indicator witnesses to the fact that Ukraine has already started to reanimate its indices. As of July 21 Govt

US Vice President Joseph Biden appealed to the Ukrainian politicians for them to reach compromise, as in democratic society it would be considered as an expression of strength, rather than weakness. He underlined these points in his speech in front

President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko and US Vice President Joseph Biden reached an agreement on creation of the Ukrainian-American Commission on Strategic Partnership. The first commission sitting will take place as soon as this autumn

Leader of the Party of Regions Viktor Yanukovych together with a group of people's deputies of the PR faction went on official visit to Zakarpattya. In the Uzhhorod airport he was met by heads of the regional council and Head

One of the most important results of the US Vice President's visit to Ukraine is confirmation of the strategic character of the Ukraine-US relations, as reported by President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko at his interview to the Silski Visti newspaper.

A total of 3.61 million liters of vintage wine was produced according to classical technology at the Inkerman distillery in January - June 2009. Thus, compared to January - June last year, when 2.92 million liters were bottled, production growth

The Ukrainian Credit-Bank Union association (UCBU) is calling on President Viktor Yushchenko to veto amendments to the laws on the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) and the state budget of Ukraine 2009, as this act worsens the possibilities of the

Ukrainian politicians should cooperate in order to overcome the economic downturn even amid the presidential campaign, US Vice President Joe Biden has expressed this opinion at a joint press conference with Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko in Kyiv. Biden noted that

There are still no reports about the destiny of the German Hansa Stavanger ship captured by Somali pirates with two Ukrainians onboard. "The crisis staff of the German MFA is actively working to release the vessel," says Germany's MFA official,

The Ukrainian film 'The Living' by film director Serhiy Bukovsky has become a laureate of the Golden Apricot 6th Yerevan International Film Festival, Armenia. The film got a special prize in Documentary competition. The 75 minutes long documentary features about