By January 4 there had been 278 Ukrainian citizens including 196 children in Gaza, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Ukrainian News learned this from the weather center.

The hryvnia rate fell by 20 kopecks to 8.15 UAH/USD on the interbank currency market on January 5 after a decrease on December 30.

The court upheld the lawsuit the Ministry of Fuel and Energy had filed over recognizing contracts on Russian gas transit via Ukraine signed by the end of 2010 as null and void.

The plan for 2008 has been fulfilled by 102.8%," the ministry said.

Journalists of the press-centre of the Charter'97 tried to receive information about the reasons of devaluation in the main informational programme of the Belarusian TV "Panorama nedeli" ("Week's panorama").

The National Bank sharply devaluated the Belarusian ruble on January 2. At the same time, a paradoxical situation could be seen at the stock exchange at the end of December.

On January 2 Belarusians were shocked: despite all the statements of the authorities, the national currency caved in by 20.5%. Just recently Lukashenka swore that there would never be a ruble's collapse. We would like to offer you Belarusian dictator's

The US dollar rose from 2,650 to 2,655 rubels as a result of Monday's trading at the Belarusian Currency and Stock Exchange (BCSE).

This year has put many things in their places. Everyone has demonstrated what they are worth of, their abilities. Well-known Belarusians evaluate the results of this year in a different way, but still they agree that we are standing on

Most of voters of the poll of Charter'97 website are strongly against a decision of the Belarusian authorities to build a nuclear power plant n Astravets.

Famous human rights activist Viktar Sazonau and journalist Uladzimir Khilmanovich were detained at the railway station in Hrodna.

Marta Maiseenka, activist of the civil campaign "European Belarus", was to have trial in the Tsentralny district court of Minsk on December 31.

Belarusian currency has devalued 4 times as much as Turkmen one, 1,000 times as much as Russian, 100,000 times as much as Lithuanian one.

Paval Kuryanovich, activist of the civil campaign "European Belarus", is threatened he may be lose his deterrence and drafted into the army.

For three months Vitsebsk-based oppositionist Alyaksandr Salayan cannot receive wages, as Chyhunachny district court arrested his bank account.

The war is now going on among Russia's and Ukraine's largest financial/industrial clans over the control of gas transit from Russia to Europe. Russia wants to lay its hands on Ukraine gas pumping system and put Ukraine on its knees.

There is no dependence of Ukraine on the Russian natural gas. It is an artificial problem invented to exploit Ukraine," Prof. Oleh Soskin, director of the Institute for the Transformation of Society told ZIK Jan. 5.

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