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Premier asks National Bank of Ukraine to draw up list of banks to credit medicine and medical equipment production Ukrainian Premier Yulia Tymoshenko has sent a letter to the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) asking it to draw up a list of banks that will credit a program for the purchase of medicine and medical equipment.
Nov 2, 2009 at 14:13 | Interfax-Ukraine
Foreign ministry: Ukraine soon to receive 200,000 doses of Tamiflu Ukraine will soon receive 200,000 doses of Tamiflu, a medicine used to treat or prevent flu, Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Valeriy Dzhyhun has said.
Nov 2, 2009 at 14:11 | Interfax-Ukraine
City council sells three land plots for Hr 25 million The Kyiv Council has sold three land lots with a total area of 1.22 hectares for UAH 25.4 million.
Nov 2, 2009 at 14:01 | Interfax-Ukraine
MAKHACHKALA, Russia — A Russian government spokesman in a restive southern province near Chechnya says three suspected militants have been killed during a security sweep.
Nov 2, 2009 at 13:36 | Associated Press
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — A journalist in Kyrgyzstan has been beaten in an assault that colleagues say was connected to his work.
Nov 2, 2009 at 13:34 | Associated Press
Ukraine has 22 confirmed cases of swine flu Twenty-two cases of the A(H1N1) influenza, commonly known as swine flu, have been officially confirmed in Ukraine, First Deputy Health Minister Vasyl Lazoryshynets said at a briefing on Monday.
Nov 2, 2009 at 13:11 | Interfax-Ukraine
The signing of a law on the increase of social standards by the Ukrainian president brings to a minimum the likelihood of the allocation of a fourth tranche of the IMF's Stand-By credit this year, according to the senior analyst at Kyiv-based Phoenix Capital Investment Company, Andriy Nesteruk.
Nov 2, 2009 at 13:07 | Interfax-Ukraine
Tymoshenko: Panic over flu is 'groundless' Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has said that panic among Ukrainian citizens over the announcement of the flu epidemic in the country has been caused by the "dishonest behavior of Ukrainian politicians and certain political forces."
Nov 2, 2009 at 12:53 | Interfax-Ukraine
Presidential secretariat hopes IMF will accept president's arguments on signing law on increase of social standards First Deputy Head of the Presidential Secretariat Oleksandr Shlapak has expressed hope that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will accept the arguments of the Ukrainian president on the signing of a law on the increase of social standards, Shlapak said at a briefing in Kyiv on October 30.
Nov 2, 2009 at 12:48
Transport Ministry introduces anti-flu measures in public transport The Transport and Communications Ministry of Ukraine is taking measures to prevent the spread of viral diseases around Ukraine.
Nov 2, 2009 at 12:46 | Interfax-Ukraine
Lytvyn against idea of holding parliament meetings 'in masks' Ukrainian Parliament Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn has spoken out against MPs wearing facemasks during plenary meetings of parliament.
Nov 2, 2009 at 12:45
Lavrynovych calls cabinet redistribution of funds from stabilization fund to support activity of Kyiv Administrative Court of Appeals corrupt Verkhovna Rada First Deputy Chairman Oleksandr Lavrynovych has said the actions of the Cabinet of Ministers in redistributing funds from the Stabilization fund to support Kyiv Administrative Court of Appeals are corrupt.
Nov 2, 2009 at 12:43
Ukraine to buy additional 700,000 doses of Tamiflu from Swiss producer The Ukrainian government is planning to buy an additional 700,000 doses of Tamiflu medicines from a Swiss flu medicine producer at a price of UAH 67 per pack, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has said.
Nov 2, 2009 at 12:43 | Interfax-Ukraine
Yanukovych demands government report on flu in Rada The parliamentary faction of the Regions Party has proposed that the government and experts report in parliament on Tuesday on the epidemiological situation in Ukraine.
Nov 2, 2009 at 12:15 | Interfax-Ukraine
Warsaw Business Journal: Ukraine 'on verge' of state of emergency as flu virus spreads "A flu outbreak is endangering the national security of Ukraine," declared Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko in a special decree. Read the story here.
Nov 2, 2009 at 12:12