Besides, the prime minister said that the Cabinet of Ministers added the list of employees to obtain office housing, including the postal employees.

A total of 240 of required 226 deputies backed this decision.

I can say for sure, next year we'll feel deficit of sugar, butter and considerable shortage of meat products. Already now more than 30% of meat is substituted by imports," he said.

The early term for declaring consent for the exchange offer expired on Thursday, October 8, at 5pm. The 'yes' votes make more than 92% of the existing securities in circulation," the report said.

On September 24, in London the voting of holders of eurobonds took place on accepting the terms of their restructure. As of evening of October 8 it is possible to state that the voting is successful. The result is positive,"

Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Kostiantyn Yelyseev announced this in an address at the opening of the 55th general assembly of the Atlantic Treaty Association, which is taking place in Kyiv.

With 226 votes required, 204 lawmakers supported draft resolution of the parliament No.5000.

We were not taking part in formation of the government and will not," Oleksandr Yefremov said.

The appointment by VR of new ministers will be a challenge for the coalition as it will have to garner sufficient support. Consequently, the chances of any candidate will depend on whether he/she is acceptable to major VR factions, Razumkov

The defection of two lawmakers from BYT will not invalidate the coalition as only factions, not separate lawmakers, can leave the coalition, GMT-Group think tank director Anatoly Lutsenko told ZIK Oct. 7.

Ukrainians live amid the never-ending carnival," Transformation of Society Institute director Prof. Oleh Soskin told journalists in Lviv Oct. 6.

Yesterday's vote in parliament in favor of raising social standards is "an atomic bomb under Ukraine's financial state," Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said during today's government meeting."Yesterday the Verkhovna Rada approved a draft law on raising social standards. This was

Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is confident that a coalition will be formed in the Verkhovna Rada fter the presidential elections, she remarked during the extraordinary cabinet session with school principals. "The presidential campaign will end mid-February and I think a

Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko does not support cutting back on physical education in schools, she said during today's open government meeting on secondary education in Ukraine. "I don't believe this is the proper attitude. A child's health and what kind

During today's open cabinet session dedicated to education, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko proposed canceling state attestation in general education schools. There are currently two systems for assessing students - state attestation and independent external testing.

Preparations for the 2009-2010 heating season is almost complete, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said at a meeting with heads of oblast state administrations dedicated to the issue.

The government is ready to provide state loan guarantees for peat exploitation projects in the Poltava, Khmelnytsky and Sumy oblasts, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said during today's meeting with heads of oblast state administrations on preparations for the 2009-2010 heating

Tymoshenko called the situation "tragic." In the Luhansk and Kirovohrad oblasts the regional energy companies have paid only 31% of what they owe to Naftohaz, in the Rivne, Dnipropetrovsk, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Zhytomyr and Zaporizhzhia oblasts less than 50%; AR Crimea,

Politics has been removed from Ukraine-Russia gas relations, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said during today's selective meeting. "This also safeguards our political independence because we no longer have to ask for something. We have created a model for decades to