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An-148 beginning regular flights in Ukraine

Initially the plane is to be used within Ukraine and make a limited number of flights abroad, Bohuslayev said at a meeting of a Russian-Ukrainian …
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Bitter rivals open coalition talks in Ukraine

The Party of Regions, led by former president Viktor Yanukovych, was talking about creating “a grand coalition” with Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s …
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Source: BYT, Regions Party drafting legislation to make Ukraine parliamentary republic

“It will be a parliamentary republic. However, there will remain the office of president in the country. The draft envisages that the president would …
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Cabinet allocates Hr 5 million to Labor and Social Policy Ministry for creating social contact center

This is stated in the Cabinet of Ministers directive No. 579 dated May 27. The center is being created to enable the authorities to promptly respond …
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Ukraine: Officials put number wounded in explosions at bank office at 25 people

The Emergency Situation Ministry saidin a statement that the blast was likely caused by an explosive device inside the offices of the state-owned …
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Ukraine agrees with Belarus on electricity exports until 2010

Ukrainian Fuel and Energy Minister Yurii Prodan announced this to the press. In his words, monthly volume of supplies will reach 100 million …
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Kyiv City Council allows temporary rent of municipal property before official tender

“To sign the rent agreement you have to pass required procedures and participate in the tender. This may take 3-6 months or even more. This decision …
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Ukraine has first suspected case of H1N1 flu

Oleksander Bilovol, first deputy health minister, said the case involved a 24-year-old man who had been living in the U.S. city of Detroit and became …
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Head sanitary doctor: Tests on man arrived from U.S. with suspected swine flu to take two to three weeks

He said the 24-year-old Ukrainian man arrived at Boryspil airport from Paris at 1200 on May 29. Previously he lived in Detroit (United States), where …
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Region head: Twenty-five people injured in Melitopol blast

Head of Zaporizhia Regional Administration Oleksandr Starukh said at a press conference in Kyiv on Tuesday that previously 22 victims had been …
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State Treasury: Revenues target of Ukraine’s national budget over-fulfilled by 4.6 percent in Jan-May

She said that the revenues indicator takes into account the size of VAT reimbursement, although it does not take into account the revenues of budget …
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UNESCO issues list of top 200 Ukrainian universities in 2008

According to a report in the Dzerkalo Tyzhnia Weekly Newspaper, the rating of a university is built on three complex criteria: quality of teaching …
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Justice minister: Private notaries in Ukraine to be allowed to certify inheritance documents on June 1

He said the law on notaries would allow public notaries to certify inheritance documents. According to Onischuk, today only one third of all notaries …
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Ukraine: 22 people hurt in blasts at bank office

The Emergency Situation Ministry said in a statement on its Web site that the blast was likely caused by an explosive device inside the offices of the …
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Bitter rivals open coalition talks in Ukraine

Dmytro Tabachnyk, a lawmaker with the Russian-leaning Party of Regions, called for forming a “big coalition” with Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s …
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Kivalov, Portnov and Shapoval elected members of High Council of Justice

“Today we held a congress of law schools representatives, which included lawyers from all the regions of the country and resulted in the election of …
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Presidential representative: Emergency Rada session likely in August to amend constitution

“The organizers of a new coalition have developed a plan which gives them a handicap of about a couple of weeks,” Popov told the media in parliament …
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Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko says president ready to call early presidential polls, dissolve parliament to prevent new coalition

“The Presidential Secretariat has two draft decrees – one is about early presidential polls and another about snap parliamentary elections. As soon as …
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