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Rada supports bill to ban foreigners from occupying state posts in Ukraine Verkhovna Rada is intending to reduce the number of cases of dual citizenship in Ukraine.
3 days ago at 16:50 | Interfax-Ukraine
Parliament bans smoking almost everywhere, according to law The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, has extended the list of places where smoking is prohibited.
2 days ago at 15:23 | Interfax-Ukraine
What’s In Your Water? Is the water you are drinking clean? Are there better and cheaper alternatives? Who is responsible for keeping water safe, and are they doing a good job? In this edition, the Kyiv Post launches a four-part series to answer these questions. The newspaper hired experts to analyze 25 samples of water from taps, pumps, wells and bottles.
2 days ago at 22:28 | Oksana Grytsenko and Oksana Faryna
Rada wants to permit refunding of former Soviet-era deposits in cashless form The Ukrainian parliament has passed at first reading the government's amendments to the law on state guarantees to restore deposits of Ukrainian citizens in Soviet-era Sberbank and Ukrgosstrakh (No. 10355), foreseeing the payment of refunding not only in cash, but also in a cashless form.
May 21 at 12:13 | Interfax-Ukraine
Lytvyn: Parliament not to debate Labor Code this week Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn has stated that parliament was not planning to consider the draft Labor Code this plenary week.
May 21 at 13:13 | Interfax-Ukraine
Bare-breasted Ukraine activists grab Euro 2012 cup KIEV - Topless activists from a Ukrainian women's rights group staged a second attack on the Euro 2012 soccer trophy on Monday, grabbing it while it was on public display in the southeast of Ukraine before being seized themselves by police.
May 21 at 17:52 | Reuters
Government to polish procedure of preferences to facilitate energy saving in Ukraine Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov believes it necessary to polish the procedure of providing preferences to facilitate the introduction of energy saving technologies in Ukraine.
May 21 at 18:34 | Interfax-Ukraine
Khoroshkovsky: Ukraine eager to continue cooperation with IMF Ukraine wants to continue cooperation with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), First Vice Prime Minister Valeriy Khoroshkovsky has said.
May 21 at 19:34 | Interfax-Ukraine
Yanukovych meets with presidents of Poland, Turkey and Azerbaijan in Chicago Before a meeting of the North Atlantic Council in the format of contributor to NATO's Afghanistan operation, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych met with heads of state participating in the event.
May 21 at 20:46 | Interfax-Ukraine
UkrainianJournal.com: Ukraine gets slapped down at NATO summit The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, at a summit in Chicago, expressed concern about selective justice and politically motivated prosecutions in Ukraine, sending a strong message to President Viktor Yanukovych.

The declaration is embarrassing for Yanukovych, who is one of about 60 world leaders invited to attend the summit. His political allies hoped the gathering would be a breakthrough overcoming his growing international isolation over democracy.

"We are concerned at the selective application of justice and what appear to be politically motivated prosecutions, including of leading members of the opposition, as well as the conditions of their detention," said the declaration approved by the NATO summit on Sunday.

NATO also encouraged Ukraine to address the existing problems of its judicial system to ensure full compliance with the rule of law and the international agreements to which it is a party.

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May 22 at 13:26
Ukraine cuts Russian gas imports 52% in Q1, 2012 Ukraine imported 8.547 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas of Russian origin in the first quarter of 2012, 52% or 9.372 bcm less year-on-year, the State Statistics Service has said.
May 22 at 13:50 | Interfax-Ukraine
Azarov stresses need to monitor nutrition at children camps Ukrainian Premier Mykola Azarov has said there is a need to thoroughly monitor the quality of children's food during the summer holidays in camps and health resorts.
May 22 at 15:20 | Interfax-Ukraine
Soviet dissidents meet in Crimea, decide to continue rights movement traditions SIMFEROPOL - Prominent Soviet-era dissidents have founded the Crimean Forum, an annual meeting of political prisoners of the Communist regime and human rights activists, whose purpose is to ensure the consistency of the human rights movement of the former USSR in the work of civil society institutions in the former Soviet republics.
May 22 at 17:31 | Interfax-Ukraine
BBC News: Ukraine Olympic official 'willing to sell tickets to black market' A senior Olympic official was willing to sell thousands of pounds worth of 2012 tickets for cash, a BBC investigation has revealed.

Volodymyr Gerashchenko, of Ukraine's National Olympic Committee (NOC), told a reporter posing as a UK tout he would have up to 100 tickets to sell.

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May 22 at 20:24
Ukrzaliznytsia plans to sell 10,000 tickets every day after obtaining all Hyundai trains The Infrastructure Ministry of Ukraine has reported that in the first hours of the sale of tickets for Hyundai high-speed trains, a total of 2,400 tickets were sold in the country.
3 days ago at 11:52 | Interfax-Ukraine