Tests taken from 34 swine flue suspects in Ukraine were examined in a London lab, confirming the swine flue in15 cases, a ZIK correspondent quotes deputy health minister of Ukraine Zenovij Mytnyk as telling journalists on Nov. 5.

Accusing presidential candidate Inna Bohoslovska of disseminating false information about the alleged existence of pneumonic plague that contributed to panic in Ukraine, NUNS member Yury Hrymchak said he is going to file an appeal with the Prosecutor General's Office of

Addressing journalists in Kyiv Nov. 4, director of Sofia think tank Andrij Yermolayev said he was astonished and alarmed by the way the authorities are handling the flue outbreak, our Kyiv correspondent reports.

The head of ArsenyYatseniuk's campaign staff in the Lviv oblast, Oleksandr Hanushchyn, has resigned over his disagreement with his boss' new agenda. Hanushchyn explained why he had resigned at his Nov. 4 press conference in Lviv.

Pres Yushchenko has tabled a bill whereby UAH2.5-million deposits by presidential candidates will be repaid to them if they garner 7% of the vote in the first round or if their registration has been cancelled by the Central Election Commission.

In addition to the known types of flue, there is a new one which may be different from the swine flue. It kills and there are no tested pharmaceuticals against it, says Ukraine Minister of Health Vasyl Knyazevych.

The major enemy of UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent Army in WWII) was Soviet interior ministry, NKVD, troops, not the Red Army, Ukraine security service archive director Volodymyr Vyatrovych says. There are documents in the archive about the operations of UPA and

Nov. 2, Ukraine Health Minister Vasyl Knyazevych publicized his appeal to Ukrainian politicians. "I'm calling on you to refrain from fueling tensions in the country, creating panic and spreading pseudo medical recommendations in the media," his appeal runs.

The victory by Yulia Tymoshenko will bring stability in 2010, with budget consolidation, better terms of crediting and higher influx of capital. As a result, the economy will have better prospects of growing in the second half of 2010 and

Following his telephone conversation with Premier Tymoshenko, Russia Premier Vladimir Putin says Ukraine has problems with payments for October deliveries of the Russian gas, Interfax-Ukraine reports Oct. 30.

Head of Crimean police and NUNS lawmaker Gen. Hennady Moskal has pledged to verify the validity of diplomas earned by Party of Regions head Viktor Yanukovych, ProUA quotes a report by the People's Self-Defense press service.

Declaring Oct. 28 that he will sign the law increasing salaries and pensions, Pres Yushchenko openly sided with Yanukovych, acting like his proxy, vice-speaker Mykola Tomenko said, speaking to journalists in Lviv Oct. 29.

Western Ukraine was hit by a severe epidemic of unidentified influenza, tentatively diagnosed by doctors as viral pneumonia. The number of dead has climbed dramatically. Doctors advise Western Ukrainians to stay at home and use preventive medication. The first pedestrians

Several lawsuits have been filed with Kyiv, Kherson, Poltava and Odesa administrative courts demanding that Pres Yushchenko be banned to participate in the presidential election campaign as candidate, Yushchenko's representative in the Central Election Commission Maryna Stavnijhuk said, addressing a

The existing coalition will be preserved. Even if not all NUNS lawmakers are pleased with Martynenko's track record as head of OU faction, they are not, save for the president's group and Baloha's breakaway group, willing to destroy the coalition.

If the voting day came in late October, 23.17% of Ukrainians would support Viktor Yanukovych for president, says the national monthly poll run by the TNS, the company's site reports.

Following a 200,000-strong open air rally on Oct. 25 which nominated Yulia Tymoshenko to run for president, Viktor Yushchenko warned her against staging rent-a-crowd rallies. Pres Yushchenko was speaking to a thin crowd of some 2,000 of his supporters after

Oct. 27, Pres Yushchenko will submit his documents to the Central Election Commission to register him as candidate for another term in office, Our Ukraine press service report says.

The court rendered as libelous the information spread at a press conference on 06.11.2008 about Police General Moskal by Security Service chief Valentyn Nalyvajchenko and ordered Nalyvajchenko to disclaim his information within 10 days of the court decision coming into

Torture of prisoners by police is widespread and is common knowledge. However, there is no statistics, as torture cases are reported only by victims, with only isolated cases coming into the open, human rights activist Yevhen Zakharov from Kharkiv said,