The respective law passed by parliament on June 11 takes effect after it is published.
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has signed a law amending the Ukrainian law on a national program for reforming and developing the housing and utilities sector in 2004-2014, which foresees the allocation of UAH 23 billion from the state budget to reform and develop the sector in 2009-2014.Full Story Today, 15:39 | Interfax-Ukraine
It is necessary, first and foremost, to determine the status of a project on the construction of a bridge across the Kerch Strait before commenting on the possible implementation of this project, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has said.Full Story Today, 16:52 | Interfax-Ukraine
The European Commission has proposed that Ukraine make concrete steps in reforming the oil and gas and energy sectors of the national economy.Full Story Today, 15:03 | Interfax-Ukraine
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has signed a decree granting Ukrainian citizenship to 230 foreigners, including eight people under 18, the presidential press service reported on Friday.Full Story Today, 14:38 | Interfax-Ukraine
According to a survey conducted by the Ukrainian Sociological Service on June 20-29, the list of leading presidential candidates is still headed by Regions Party leader Viktor Yanukovych, Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, and Head of the Front for Change Initiative Arseniy Yatseniuk.Full Story Today, 14:06 | Interfax-Ukraine
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, on behalf of the Ukrainian people and on his own behalf, has congratulated U.S. President Barack Obama on a national holiday – Independence Day.Full Story Today, 13:36 | Interfax-Ukraine
The Regions Party is planning to propose holding early elections to the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, if amendments to Ukraine's state budget for 2009 increasing the minimum wage and pensions are not passed, one of the party leaders, Mykola Azarov, said at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine on Friday.Full Story Today, 12:54 | Interfax-Ukraine
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has put on the wanted list the former Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko MP, Viktor Lozinsky, suspected of committing a serious crime, under an order issued by the Prosecutor General's Office, the SBU press center has reported.Full Story Today, 12:39 | Interfax-Ukraine
Head of the Congress of Ukrainian Azerbaijanis Akif Gulmammadov said “Armenians are to be blamed for the scuffle. They behaved in a very provoking manner. Azerbaijanis are very peaceful people. So, we do not have any problem with Ukrainians."Full StoryToday, 11:59
A drunken argument deteriorated into a fight that left a local young man dead in the small town of Marganets in Ukraine's Dnepropetrovsk province.Full StoryToday, 11:55 Archive
The respective law passed by parliament on June 11 takes effect after it is published.
