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Ukraine to sell three million carbon emission rights to Spain The National Environmental Investment Agency of Ukraine and the Ministry of the Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs of Spain will sign a contract on the purchase and sale of three million carbon emission rights, also known as assigned amount units (AAU), under the Kyoto Protocol.
Nov 27, 2009 at 21:42 | Interfax-Ukraine
Expert: Ukrainian economy recovering Director of the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting Ihor Burakovsky believes that Ukraine is currently seeing an economic recovery.
Nov 27, 2009 at 21:35 | Interfax-Ukraine
Lucescu could become chief coach of Ukraine's national football team President of the Ukrainian Football Federation Hryhoriy Surkis has said that he is ready to offer the job of national coach to Romanian Mircea Lucescu, the current coach of UEFA Cup winners Shakhtar Donetsk.
Nov 27, 2009 at 21:30 | Interfax-Ukraine
Ukraine to celebrate New Year, Christmas for ten days, reads government resolution The Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers has passed a resolution on the postponement of working days in 2010.
Nov 27, 2009 at 19:42 | Interfax-Ukraine
Three Ukrainian airlines regain right to conduct flights to EU Brussels, November 27 (Interfax-Ukraine) - The European Commission has restored the right to conduct flights to three Ukrainian airlines, which were earlier put on a European Union blacklist.
Nov 27, 2009 at 18:40 | Interfax-Ukraine
Tigipko supports legalization of prostitution in Ukraine Presidential candidate Sergey Tigipko has said he supports the legalization of prostitution in Ukraine.
Nov 27, 2009 at 18:12 | Interfax-Ukraine
Helsinki human rights group reports arrests in police beating death Police officers suspected of beating a man to death in western Ukraine were arrested on Nov. 25 after two years of an attempted cover up, according to the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union. More information can be found in an article written by Omar Uzarashvili on the organization’s website: http://helsinki.org.ua/en/index.php?id=1259136693.

It read: “Thanks to the resolve of a high-ranking regional police officer and persistent news reporting from a local journalist, a group of unidentified police officers in Sokal, Lviv Oblast, have been taken into custody and charged with causing ‘deliberate, serious bodily injuries’ and exceeding their official powers following a two-year investigation and uncooperative local authorities who stalled the investigation.”

The human rights organization gave this account: On the night of Dec. 31, 2007, Roman Stasyuk, a suburban resident of Sokal, went with a friend to watch a fireworks show near the town’s centrally located New Year Tree. There they noticed that police were detaining a 20-year man. When Stasyuk approached the police to persuade them to release the young man, police refused and an argument started. Police handcuffed and placed Stasyuk in a police car, where they allegedly beat him to death. A local reporter from the Vysoky Val newspaper looked into the death of Stasyuk after the victim’s relatives contacted him. Based on the journalist’s first article, a forensic medical examination was launched, the human rights group said. That exam showed that Roman Stasyuk had died not of a heart attack, but from rib fractures, blunt injuries and severe shock. On Jan. 27, 2008, prosecutors initiated a criminal investigation into Stasyuk’s death.
Nov 27, 2009 at 17:26
Ukraine asks Russia to change gas price formula Ukraine has asked Russia's giant gas monopoly Gazprom to amend the formula by which it calculates the price of gas, Ukrainian state energy firm Naftogaz said on Nov. 27.
Nov 27, 2009 at 17:17 | Reuters
Cyrillic .ukr domain to start operating on Internet in Feb-March 2010 The Ukrainian Network Information Center (UNIC) has submitted an application to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to register the .ukr domain in Cyrillic, UNIC Director Yuriy Honcharuk said at a press conference in Kyiv on Nov. 26.
Nov 27, 2009 at 16:33 | Interfax-Ukraine
Yushchenko: Ukraine expecting full investigation into shooting on Russia border Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko has said he is worried by the fact that Russian border guards have used firearms on the two countries' shared border, the presidential press service reported on Nov. 27.
Nov 27, 2009 at 16:08 | Interfax-Ukraine
Economics Ministry: Ukraine plans $12.5 billion in international loans till 2012 Ukraine expects to borrow $12.5 billion from international financial organizations for development projects in 2009-2012, Anna Bilokolos, deputy director of the Ukrainian Economics Ministry's Department for Cooperation with International Financial Organizations, said at an economic forum on the financial potential of Ukrainian cities.
Nov 27, 2009 at 15:49 | Interfax-Ukraine
Family and Sports Minister has no doubts about positive decision from UEFA for Ukraine Kyiv, Kharkiv, Lviv and Donetsk will host matches of the Euro 2012 European Football Championship, while the final match will take place in Kyiv, Family, Youth and Sports Minister Yuriy Pavlenko has said.
Nov 27, 2009 at 15:41 | Interfax-Ukraine
Putin congratulates Tymoshenko on her birthday Paris, November 27 (Interfax) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has congratulated his Ukrainian counterpart Yulia Tymoshenko on her birthday.
Nov 27, 2009 at 15:24 | Interfax-Ukraine
Dubyna: Claims of Austrian centragas to Ukraine regarding expropriation of 11 billion cubic meters of gas iIllogical Board chairman of the Naftohaz Ukrainy national joint-stock company Oleh Dubyna considers as illogical claims of the Centragas Beteiligungs Holding AG, Austria, which owns the 50-percent stake in RosUkrEnergo, Switzerland, to Ukraine regarding the expropriation of 11 billion cubic meters of gas earlier belonging to RosUkrEnergo, he told a press conference.
Nov 27, 2009 at 14:35 | Ukrainian News
Presidential secretariat says about misuse of funds from sale of loan bonds for Euro 2012 The government of Ukraine is misusing funds allocated to prepare for the Euro 2012 European Football Championship that were attracted via the placement of special government domestic loan bonds, First Deputy Head of the Ukrainian Presidential Secretariat Oleksandr Shlapak has said.
Nov 27, 2009 at 14:08 | Interfax-Ukraine