According to currency dealers for commercial banks, the hryvnia's exchange rate fluctuated within 7.6550-7.7550 UAH/USD at the start of the trading, then rose to 7.7350-7.8250 UAH/USD, and increased to 7.8350-7.8950 UAH/USD by the end of the trading.

He said that Ukrposhta will work in ordinary regime on December 31 and also on January 2, 5 and January 6, 2009.

The relevant bill (No. 3343) was proposed by Parliamentary Deputy Borys Tarasiuk of the Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense bloc and approved by 239 votes (only 226 votes were required for its approval).

The draft law that was submitted by the Cabinet of Ministers and contains amendments to the law on Ukraine's national budget for 2008 and some legislative acts (№ 3308). It was endorsed as a whole by 266 parliamentary deputies when

The National Bank agrees, as soon as outflow of deposits from the banking system stops - and this has already happened: during a fortnight money are being returned to the system - the National Bank would cancel the moratorium on

In 2009 Belarus counts upon buying Russian gas at a price of no more than $160 per 1,000 cubic metres.

Former National Bank head Stanislau Bahdankevich believes that the bank system of Belarus today reminds a "balloon which can explode". He has stated that on December 11 at a press-conference in Minsk.

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