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Agriculture minister resigns on Facebook
KIEV, May 23 – Ukraine’s agriculture minister on Tuesday submitted his resignation, raising questions about the pace of reforms in the country’s massive agriculture sector and his apparent clash with the prime minister. 22:04 | More

Parliament ratchets up culture war against Russian language broadcasts
KIEV, May 23 - Ukraine’s Parliament ratcheted up its cultural war against Russia on Monday by backing television language quotas requiring major channels to broadcast at least three-quarters of their programs in Ukrainian, EUractive reported. 22:03 | More

PM: Ukraine has saved $900 million since start of e-procurement
KIEV, May 23 – The Ukrainian nation's coffers have saved UAH 24 billion, a little more than $900 million, since the launch of the ProZorro e-procurement system, Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said. 22:03 | More

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko had a meeting with bipartisan delegation of the House of Representatives of the U.S. Congress. (Photo by the president's press service)

PrivatBank says it hasn't received lawsuit challenging forced swap
KIEV, May 23 - PrivatBank has not yet been notified of a lawsuit lodged by eurobond holders with the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) against a forced swap of their securities for shares of an additional issue of the bank (the so-called bail-in procedure), PrivatBank Chairman Oleksandr Shlapak said. 22:01 | More

IN FOCUS	Cops to question journalist slay suspects KIEV, May 14 – Ten months after the murder of a prominent journalist, police will finally question a former security service agent who was spotted watching the street the night the bomb was planted. 14:09 \| More
Russia launches Ukraine trade complaint GENEVA, May 22 - Russia has launched a wide-ranging trade complaint against Ukraine, saying it is facing a "universe of restrictions, prohibitions, requirements and procedures", a World Trade Organization statement said on Monday. 13:14 \| More

COMMENT AND ANALYSIS

Threats persist from Chernobyl and Fukusima, Greenpeace reports The forest areas around Ukraine's Chernobyl and Japan's Fukusima remain sources of radiation and carry a potential threat to the health of local residents, Greenpeace said.More	Consumer inflation slowing faster than expected, NBU reports The actual slow of consumer inflation in February in annual terms is quicker than the inflation-slowing trajectory to 12% as of late 2016 projected by the National Bank of Ukraine, the regulator has reported on its website.More
ING analysts forecast 2016 GDP decline, citing political risks Analysts from ING Bank have confirmed the forecast of a decline in real gross domestic product in 2016 by 1%, pointing to a predominance of political risks in the economy.More	NBU: Hryvnia slide caused by temporary and fundamental factors The decrease of the hryvnia exchange rate on the interbank currency market continue being caused by both temporary and fundamental market factors that result in the reduction of supply of foreign currency, Deputy National Bank of Ukraine Governor Oleh Churiy said.More