Ukraine

Kyiv sets one-way traffic on Honchara, Striletska, Stritenska streets

In particular, traffic on Honchara Street is directed from Velyka Zhytomyrska Street to Yaroslaviv Val Street, on Striletska Street from Yaroslaviv …
Ukrainian News

Chernomyrdin: Russia has chosen new ambassador to Ukraine

“Of course, we’ve decided. You’ll be dealing with a new ambassador. He is a regular guy, handsome and young,” he added. Chernomyrdin also commented on …
Interfax-Ukraine

Yushchenko appoints Bohatyriova to replace Marchuk as chair of National Security Council’s interagency commission on information policy

This is stated in the presidential decree No. 462/2009 dated June 18. Yushchenko made the relevant changes to the presidential decree No. 63 of …
Ukrainian News

Cabinet to convene extraordinary meeting on debts of municipal heating companies before Naftohaz on June 22

Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko announced this at a meeting concerning gas debts. Tymoshenko said the extraordinary meeting will concern exclusively …
Ukrainian News

Premier notes difficult situation with payments for gas consumed in Ukraine

“I gathered you, because I consider the situation [with gas payments] extremely difficult, tense and even dangerous,” she said at a council with …
Interfax-Ukraine

Land plots of Elita Center group to be used to build housing for fraud victims

Eighty-seven deputies of Kyiv City Council backed the said decision at a session on Thursday. The city council ordered the Kyiv City State …
Interfax-Ukraine

New land grab: Kyiv City Council sells over 50 land plots

A respective decision was made at a session of the municipal council on Thursday. According to the decision, 53 land plots with an area of up to 0.1 …
Interfax-Ukraine

Lutsenko: Interior Ministry, election commission find 600,000 duplicate entries on voter lists

Interior Ministry Yuriy Lutsenko told this to journalists in Kyiv on Friday. “I can say that 600,000 duplicate entries and 155,000 individuals put on …
Interfax-Ukraine

Shlapak: talks between Naftogaz, Gazprom on fall in gas supplies in June as yet unfruitful

“Our Russian colleagues answered neither yes nor no,” he told reporters on Thursday. Shlapak said that 1.1 billion cubic meters was the amount of …
Interfax-Ukraine

Kyiv’s Kominterna Street renamed as Symon Petliura Street

A total of 76 deputies backed the said decision at a Kyiv City Council session on Thursday. Symon Petliura was a Ukrainian politician of the Civil War …
Interfax-Ukraine

Vinsky gets cooperation proposals from three parties

He was speaking on the Shuster Live show on the Ukraina television channel late on Thursday. However, Vinsky declined to name these parties. “There …
Interfax-Ukraine

President: Ukraine, European Union could sign association agreement in six months

The head of state was speaking at a meeting with the Ukrainian Diaspora in Serbia in the country’s second largest city, Novi Sad, on Thursday, the …
Interfax-Ukraine

Yushchenko signs law increasing penalties for desecration of state symbols

The law “On amending Article 338 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine regarding increasing the penalties for the desecration of the state symbols of …
Interfax-Ukraine

National TV council against criminal prosecution for storage of pornographic products

“I don’t think that Ukraine could resolve this question through one law. Banning [the storage of pornographic products] is not the way to resolve the …
Interfax-Ukraine

Lutsenko to sue MPs who commented on ‘Frankfurt incident’

“I’m preparing law suits against several Ukrainian politicians who accused me of every possible misdeed, having no lawful grounds to do so,” he …
Interfax-Ukraine

Summer Cruising

The Dnipro River made it on the top 10 list of European river cruises by Reuters news agency. It’s hard to argue with the honor. The ancient waterway …
Oksana Faryna

Gambling industry braces for nationwide temporary shutdown

Kyiv’s glittering night life attracts many looking for adventure, permissiveness and risk. In this atmosphere, gambling fits right in. Just as with …
Kateryna Grushenko

Mayor’s foes want him out before term ends in 2012

Ukraine’s parliament is showing greater determination to strip Kyiv’s controversial mayor of many of his powers before his term ends in 2012. On June …
Yuliya Popova
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