At the start of today's cabinet session, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko urged local governments to settle their debts with Naftohaz by the start of the heating season.The government is also scheduled to hear reports from the ministries of housing and

Agricultural production in Ukraine grew by 3.3% in the first 9 months of 2009 as compared to the same period last year, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said in her opening remarks at today's session of government. "I want to emphasize

Today the cabinet submitted to the VR a bill that would cancel market fees, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said during a briefing today, adding that she also sent a request to VR speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn that this bill be ratified

The cabinet of ministers is planning to convert Bank Kyiv into a postal bank, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said during today's 3rd All-Ukrainian Postal Workers Forum."Kyiv Bank is working well. It has a system but lacks a serious branch network.

The technical upgrade next year will be backed by state guarantees included in this year's and next year's budgets for long-term purchases up to 15-20 years," Tymoshenko said. She believes the company needs to develop a quality control system, open

The cabinet has passed a decision increasing official salaries for letter carriers by 50% as of October 1. Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko announced this during the 3rd All-Ukrainian Postal Workers Forum. Tymoshenko wants Ukrposhta to stop shortening work days for

she said during the 3rd All-Ukrainian Postal Workers Forum.

The president has the right to submit to the VR any candidate he would like for defense and foreign minister, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said during her working visit to the Chernivtsi oblast. "The president has the right to nominate

Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko believes law enforcement should automatically verify the diplomas of everyone seeking a high-level government post.She made this statement during a press conference on Wednesday, following her instructions to the Ministry of Science and Education to verify

There is another bank that we're working on. Unfortunately, we haven't been able to nationalize it because of the impossible obstacles we have faced. This is Nadra Bank," Tymoshenko said. According to Tymoshenko, the NBU is stalling the bank's nationalization.

Ukrprombank's deposits and assets will be transferred to Rodovid Bank and the bank will be liquidated, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has announced. The government had looked into the possibility of recapitalizing Ukrprombank using money from the budget; according to the

During today's open session of government Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko instructed the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Transport and Communication to direct a portion of the profit tax collected from sea ports to the local budgets

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,