A senior administration official says that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will announce today steps his department can take to begin implementing parts of its new regulatory reform plan through the it's administrative process.

Countries should prepare credible exit strategies from the economic crisis, though there is still a serious risk financial strains could persist or intensify, John Lipsky of the International Monetary Fund said on Thursday.

Verkhovna Rada has relieved Iosyp Vinskyi from the post of the Transport and Communications Minister.

During the previous trading day, the NBU increased the hryvnia's official exchange rate that corresponds to the average rate at which transactions are concluded on the interbank currency market by 0.65 kopeck to 7.6103 UAH/USD for June 23.

The relevant draft law (No. 2709), which was proposed by Parliamentary Deputy Mykola Derkach of the Lytvyn Bloc, Pavlo Zhebryvskyi of the Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense bloc, and Yevhen Kyrylchuk of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, was approved by 232 (only 226

This is read in the Cabinet of Ministers resolution No.611 of June 17.

The press service of Parliamentary Deputy Mykhailo Papiev of the Party of the Regions, who is the shadow minister of labor and social policy, announced this in a statement.

According to currency dealers for commercial banks, the hryvnia's exchange rate fluctuated within 7.60-7.6450 UAH/USD at the start of the trading, then narrowed to 7.62-7.64 UAH/USD, and grew to 7.64-7.66 UAH/USD by the end of the trading.

Yuschenko signed relevant law endorsed by the Verkhovna Rada on May 15.

Ukrainian News learned this from the press service of the South-Western Railway.

The major aim of the trip is the presentation of the president's drat Constitution to students and teachers in the region.

The Constitutional Court has ruled as unconstitutional the right of the Cabinet of Ministers to limit, cancel and prolong the temporary markup to current rates of import duties for some types of goods, chairman of the Constitutional Court Andrii Stryzhak