KYIV, November 9 /UKRINFORM/. Ukraine is currently holding negotiations with Iraq on supplying the An-32 aircrafts, Industrial Policy Minister Volodymyr Novytsky has said. According to him, talks are also in progress with Libya on supplies and creation of an Antonov

KYIV, November 6 /UKRINFORM/. Somali pirates recently hijacked the bulk carrier Delvina with seven Ukrainians as crewmembers and 14 Filipinos, Head of the Foreign Ministry press service Valeriy Dzhyhun informed. According to him, the ship owned by the Greek company

KYIV, November 6 /UKRINFORM/. A drop in the gross domestic product of Ukraine in 2009 will make up 12%, Economy Minister and Academician of the National Academy of Sciences Bohdan Danylyshyn forecasts. "Despite the fact that we have a low

KYIV, November 6 /UKRINFORM/. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has established the effective coordination of activities in a case on releasing the Ariana, a ship that has been held hostage by Somali pirates for over six months. It was established during

KYIV, November 6 /UKRINFORM/. Foreign companies are interested in development of iron ore deposits in Ukraine, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has said at a meeting with heads of mining and smelting enterprises in Mariupol (Donetsk region). "Foreign companies approached us,

KYIV, November 6 /UKRINFORM/. Ukraine has secured seventh place in UEFA Country Ranking 2010 owing to Shakhtar Donetsk's win over France's Toulouse in a Europa League match. Dynamo Kyiv lost its match in the Champions League, and failed to add

KYIV, November 6 /UKRINFORM/. The Constitutional Court (CC) has received a production of 50 MPs on constitutionality of a law on the minimum living and minimum wage of October 20, 2009, the Court press-service has reported. A relevant production came

KYIV, November 6 /UKRINFORM/. The devaluation of the hryvnia that continued in the last three days sharply stopped on Thursday, and the exchange rate of the national currency against the U.S. dollar strengthened by 1.7%, according to Oleksiy Blinov, an

KYIV, November 6 /UKRINFORM/. Trading in the dollar on the interbank currency market closed at 8.1200-8.1700 UAH/USD. In particular, the purchase rate made up 8.1200 UAH/USD, sale - 8.1700 UAH/USD. The euro purchase rate made up 12.0379 UAH/EUR, sale -

KYIV, November 6 /UKRINFORM/. Fitch Ratings has upgraded Ukraine-based OJSC Naftogaz's long-term foreign and local currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) to 'CCC', from 'RD' (Restricted Default), the ratings agency has said in a press release. The agency has placed the

KYIV, November 6 /UKRINFORM/. A German court has refused to consider an appeal lodged by Klaus-Peter Kohl, the former promoter of the Klitschko brothers, against the boxers. Kohl demanded that a contract with the brothers be prolonged or EUR 5

KYIV, November 6 /UKRINFORM/. A total of 762,835 people have caught flu and acute respiratory illnesses in Ukraine, and 32 of them caught swine flu, Ukraine's chief state sanitary doctor Oleksandr Bilovol has said. "Flu has currently killed 109 people,

KYIV, November 6 /UKRINFORM/. A concept of vertically integrated companies in the Ukrainian mining and smelting complex should be reviewed, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has said at a meeting in Mariupol (Donetsk region), where she is on a working visit.

KYIV, November 6 /UKRINFORM/. The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, has amended the Ukrainian law on preventing and combating money laundering and terrorist financing. The document is aimed at ensuring the implementation of the clauses of 40 recommendations of the Financial

KYIV, November 6 /UKRINFORM/. The Verkhovna Rada has today made amendments to a law on the state budget 2009 (to ensure payment of pensions and social assistance at a higher rate) tabled in by President Viktor Yushchenko. In particular, the

KYIV, November 6 /UKRINFORM/. The Ukrainian cinema club opened at the Ukrainian House in Berlin. Organizers of this cultural project were the Ukrainian Society of the German capital under the auspices of the Ukrainian Embassy in Germany, UKRINFORM's own correspondent

KYIV, November 6 /UKRINFORM/. Ukraine has today settled with Russia for natural gas consumed in October, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has said this in Mariupol on Friday. "We have today paid Russia USD 500 million", she underlined. At the same

KYIV, November 6 /UKRINFORM/. The UEFA Cup winners, FC Shakhtar Donetsk, earned a 2:0 away win at Toulouse FC in the UEFA Europa League Group J match, November 5, having early progressed to the last 32 of the UEFA Europa

KYIV, November 6 /UKRINFORM/. Rivneazot, one of the largest ammonium nitrate producers in Ukraine, has launched production, the enterprise's press service informs. According to Rivneazot technical director Volodymyr Kovalenko, supply of gas was renewed to the enterprise. "Within 5-7 days

KYIV, November 6 /UKRINFORM/. Ukraine exported 346,300 tons of corn in October 2009, which is a record level in the last few years, the Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation has reported. Ukraine's largest corn importers last month were Louis Dreyfus, Cargill and