Ukraine

Tymoshenko: Coalition has enough votes to appoint number of ministers

“The coalition currently has [enough] votes to make all staff appointments in government and state committees,” she told reporters after a …
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Parliament to consider increase in living wage, minimum wage, laws on presidential elections, staff issues

A total of 407 MPs out of the 443 registered in the parliament’s session hall voted for the approval of this agenda on Wednesday. Parliament Speaker …
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Parliament again blocked by Regions Party

A poster with the inscription entitled “[Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr] Lytvyn! Ministers Will Wait. First and Foremost, Help People!” was …
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Premier attending conciliatory council meeting in parliament

Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is attending the meeting, an Interfax-Ukraine reporter said. The Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko earlier proposed …
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Parliament proposes decreasing period of presidential election campaign to 90 days

The respective document was posted on the parliament’s Web site on Tuesday. Regions Party MP Olena Lukash, Oleksandr Lavrynovych, Bloc of Yulia …
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Miami Herald: Kyiv makes offer for Shevchenko

Kyiv makes offer for Shevchenko
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Winnipeg Free Press: Ignatieff has ‘respect’ for Ukrainians

Ignatieff has ‘respect’ for Ukrainians, says Tories misinterpreted his words
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MosNews: Pornography outlawed in Ukraine, unless its ‘medicinal’

Pornography outlawed in Ukraine, unless its “medicinal”
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Yushchenko to Lutsenko: Step up crime fight

Iryna Vannykova, the presidential press secretary, announced this at a briefing in Kyiv on Tuesday. “The head of state is concerned over the rising …
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Russian sailor, nine Ukrainians left without food, fuel aboard a ship in Caribbean Sea

“Two members of the crew – Ukrainian citizens – need urgent medical aid,” an official of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s community liaison office, …
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EBRD approves 38 million euro loan to improve public transport in Lviv

As the press service reported, the EBRD Board of Directors on Tuesday decided to lend the corresponding sum of money. The approval of the loan is to …
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Ukrainian, Russian foreign ministers discuss Azov, Black Sea delimitation

The parties exchanged opinions concerning the talks on the delimitation of the Sea of Azov, the Black Sea and Kerch Strait with regard to the results …
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Ukrainian-Polish agreement on rules for local border traffic takes effect on July 1

He said at a briefing in Kyiv on Tuesday that the agreement had been signed in Kyiv on March 28, 2008. An inter-governmental protocol amending the …
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Lytvyn sees great prospects for cooperation with Belarus

The Ukrainian speaker said this after a meeting with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. Lytvyn said that he and Lukashenko discussed a wide …
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EU ties aid for buying Russian gas to reform in Ukraine’s gas sector

A joint statement by the European Commission and international lenders on Ukraine’s settlements for gas, circulated on Tuesday by the European …
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President’s press secretary: claims that Yuschenko’s son involved in restaurant incident amount to declaration of ‘war without rules’

“All the accusations are a slander aimed at distracting public attention from the murder of a resident of Kirovohrad region committed by BYT MP …
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Arrests made in Lenin statute vandalism

Kiev police say the five have ties to a Ukrainian nationalist organization that has been pushing for removing all Soviet monuments from the …
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IMF urges Russia, other donors to increase foreign financing of Belarus

“Usually the implementation of IMF programs acts as a catalyst for additional financing. We hope that other donors, including Russia, will be offering …
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