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Chernovetskiy allocates 50 hectares to Kyiv racetrack The Kyiv city council, on the initiative of Mayor Leonid Chernovetsky, voted to allocate a land plot to the Kyiv racetrack for building an administrative-hotel and residential complex with underground parking lots, leader of the BYT faction in the Kyiv city council Tetiana Melikhova has said, according to the faction's press service.
Dec 30, 2009 at 15:42 | Interfax-Ukraine
James Blunt tops U.K. sales chart for decade LONDON (Billboard) - James Blunt's debut album "Back To Bedlam" is the biggest U.K. seller of the decade, according to the Official Charts Company.
Dec 30, 2009 at 15:37 | Reuters
Presidential secretariat insists on east-to-west flow for Odesa-Brody oil pipeline President Victor Yushchenko's advisor on energy security, Bohdan Sokolovsky, has said that recent statements of Russia on possible problems with oil supplies to Europe should give impetus to a faster realization the Euro-Asian Oil Transport Corridor project using the Odesa-Brody pipeline for east-to-west flow (direct mode).
Dec 30, 2009 at 15:31 | Interfax-Ukraine
Forecast: Gas for Ukraine will be $305 per 1,000 cubic meters in early 2010 Ukraine's price for gas imported inthe first quarter of 2010 will be $305 per thousand cubic meters, said chair of the National Electricity Regulatory Commission's department for oil and gas complex pricing and tariff policy Volodymyr Semenets, citing Naftogaz Ukrainy figures at a Wednesday commission meeting.
Dec 30, 2009 at 15:24 | Interfax-Ukraine
Iran denies secret deal to import Kazakh uranium TEHRAN, Dec 30 (Reuters) - Iran onDec. 30denied as "baseless" a report it was close to clinching a deal to import 1,350 tons (1,372 tonnes) of purified uranium ore from Kazakhstan to restock its depleted reserves.
Dec 30, 2009 at 15:07 | Reuters
Labor Ministry: Minimum pension to total Hr 630.4 in January Non-working retired persons who received a minimum pension in December and additional payment for November will receive a pension of not less than Hr 630.4 in January, the press service of Ukraine's Labor Ministry reported on Dec. 29.
Dec 30, 2009 at 15:00 | Interfax-Ukraine
Pressure rises to stop antibiotics in agriculture EDITOR'S NOTE: Once curable diseases such as tuberculosis and malaria are rapidly mutating into aggressive strains that resist drugs. The reason: The misuse of the very drugs that were supposed to save us has built up drug resistance worldwide.
Dec 30, 2009 at 14:38
Monsters and critics: Experts say search for Nazis started too late Ludwigsburg, Germany - Germany began far too late with its search for Nazi war criminals, according to the man responsible for bringing them to justice. 'It is undisputed that not everything was done to legally process the Nazi period,' said Kurt Schrimm, who heads up the German central office for solving Nazi crimes. Read the story here.
Dec 30, 2009 at 14:33
Tariff deal clears Russian oil shipments to Yuzhny MOSCOW, Dec 30 (Reuters) - Russia will export oil via the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Yuzhny without interruption next year, reversing a plan to scrap January shipments, after Moscow agreed to pay higher transit fees for deliveries via Ukraine. The deal, signed late on Monday, averts the threat of oil supply disruptions to Europe. Russian oil pipeline monopoly Transneftwill supply 1.5 million tonnes of crude every quarter in 2010 to Yuzhny, spokesman Igor Dyomin said.
Dec 30, 2009 at 14:22 | Reuters
Boryspil Airport resumes work State International Airport Boryspil (Kyiv region) has resumed operation, according to Liudmyla Petriv, the airport's press secretary. "The airport resumed work at 11am," she said.
Dec 30, 2009 at 14:15 | Ukrainian News
Tymoshenko: New version of tax code to be adopted in summer 2010 Presidential candidate and current Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko has said she is sure of the adoption of a new version of the tax code in summer 2010.
Dec 30, 2009 at 14:03 | Interfax-Ukraine
Obama moves to curb federal secrets WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama onDec. 29ordered the federal government to rethink how it protects America's secrets, in a move that was expected to declassify more than 400 million pages of Cold War-era documents and curb the number of government records hidden from the public.
Dec 30, 2009 at 14:00
2009 turnover of used cars in Ukraine nearly twice as high as on new car market Sales of used passenger cars in Ukraine in 2009 reached 300,000 units, which is almost twice as high as sales of new cars (160,000), and the fall on the used car market year-over-year (by 25%) was much less than on the new car market (by 74%), reads a press release of the Choice Ukraine Company.
Dec 30, 2009 at 13:57 | Interfax-Ukraine
Naftogaz congratulates Gazprom on New Year Ukraine's state gas company Naftogaz has congratulated Russia's Gazprom on the upcoming New Year and Christmas holidays.
Dec 30, 2009 at 13:52 | Interfax-Ukraine
'Avatar,' Jackson death among 2009's major moments LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The groundbreaking sci-fi movie "Avatar," Michael Jackson's death and Hollywood's $10 billion (6.2 billion pounds)-plus box office record rank among the 2009 "moments of significance" recognized by the American Film Institute.
Dec 30, 2009 at 13:33 | Reuters