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Health Ministry: Flu, respiratory diseases claim 344 lives in Ukraine The current flu epidemic and other acute respiratory diseases in Ukraine has claimed 344 lives by Wednesday evening, the Health Ministry said.
Nov 18, 2009 at 20:36 | Interfax-Ukraine
Yuschenko to hold National Security and Defense Council's  meeting on Ukraine's army financing this week Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko will hold a special meeting of the National Security and Defense Council this week to address the issue of financing of Ukraine's Armed Forces.
Nov 18, 2009 at 20:28 | Interfax-Ukraine
Tymoshenko: Gas transit rates in Ukraine to double in 2010 Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko forecasts that the rates of Russian gas transit shipments via Ukraine's territory in 2010 will tentatively double from the current rate of $1.70 per 1,000 cubic meters of gas per 100 km.
Nov 18, 2009 at 20:24
Ukraine proposes about 50 energy saving projects to EU Ukraine has prepared about 50 energy saving and energy efficiency projects which could be financed by the European Commission, Ukrainian Vice Premier Hryhoriy Nemyria said at a press conference in Kyiv on Wednesday during a roundtable entitled "Ukraine-EU: Common Energy Challenges and Prospects."
Nov 18, 2009 at 20:20 | Interfax-Ukraine
Swedish Ecoenergy and Biogasprom start building incinerator in DonetskSwedish Ecoenergy and Biogasprom start building incinerator in Donetsk Swedish companies Ecoenergy and Biogasprom have started building a facility in Donetsk which will burn garbage to generate heat and electricity.
Nov 18, 2009 at 20:16 | Interfax-Ukraine
Tymoshenko: Ukraine, Russia to discuss on Nov. 19 construction of nuclear fuel plant in Ukraine Ukraine and Russia will consider the issue of the construction of a nuclear fuel plant in Ukraine during a meeting of the intergovernmental committee for economic cooperation chaired by the two country's premiers in Yalta, Crimea, on Nov. 19-20, Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has said.
Nov 18, 2009 at 18:58 | Interfax-Ukraine
NSDC hopes Poland will help Ukraine in signing agreement on free trade zone with EU Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council Secretary Raisa Bohatyriova hopes that with the assistance of Poland, Ukraine will be able to sign an agreement on the formation of a free trade zone with the EU countries next year.
Nov 18, 2009 at 18:50 | Interfax-Ukraine
Market operator: Cyrillic .ukr domain unlikely to be registered The regional Cyrillic domain .ukr is unlikely to be registered by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), Internet Invest Ltd. President Oleksandr Olshansky considers.
Nov 18, 2009 at 17:56 | Interfax-Ukraine
Cabinet recommends enterprises make January holidays longer The Cabinet of Ministers has recommended that the heads of enterprises, institutions and organizations make Jan. 4-6 And Jan. 8 days-off.
Nov 18, 2009 at 17:14 | Ukrainian News
Presidential Secretariat: National budget general fund in 2009 to fall short by Hr 40 billion The national budget general fund of Ukraine for 2009 will fall short of the planned indicator for revenues by Hr 40 billion, Presidential Secretariat First Deputy Head Oleksandr Shlapak has forecast.
Nov 18, 2009 at 17:03 | Interfax-Ukraine
Prosecutor general calls for bringing criminal cases on negligence in providing security at banks Prosecutor General of Ukraine Oleksandr Medvedko has called for prosecutors to open criminal cases against the employees of banks on negligence in providing security to financial establishments in connection with a rise in attacks on banks in the country.
Nov 18, 2009 at 16:30 | Interfax-Ukraine
Law provides the child benefit be paid regularly from 2011, not once a year The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has established regular child benefit payments starting from Jan. 1, 2011, rather than the current yearly payment.
Nov 18, 2009 at 16:23 | Interfax-Ukraine
Ukrainian scientists develop new method of surgery for newborns with heart problems Ukrainian scientists and heard surgeons have developed and applied new method of surgery that enables the use of a newborn's own umbilical cord blood, rather than a donor's, Director of the Scientific Center for Child Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery of the Ukrainian Health Ministry Illia Yemets has said.
Nov 18, 2009 at 16:18 | Interfax-Ukraine
OSCE hopes disposal of excess rocket fuel in Ukraine will take three or four years Kalynivka (Vinnytsia region), November 18 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) hopes that the disposal of the components of liquid rocket fuel (melange) in Ukraine will take three or four years.
Nov 18, 2009 at 15:59 | Interfax-Ukraine
Interior Minister: Ukraine incurs over Hr 32 m loss as result of purchase of medicines via mediators of Health Ministry Ukraine has incurred losses of over Hr 32 million as a result of the purchase of medicines via mediators by Ukraine's Health Ministry, Interior Minister of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko said at a press conference in Kyiv on Nov. 17.
Nov 18, 2009 at 15:47 | Interfax-Ukraine