KYIV, Dec 19 - The current Extended Fund Facility program (EFF) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for Ukraine is working and there is the opportunity to obtain more than two tranches under the program in 2018, Finance Minister of Ukraine Oleksandr Danyliuk believes.
KYIV, Dec 19 - Acting Head of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) Yakiv Smolii is currently the only candidate for the post of NBU governor, Bloc of Petro Poroshenko MP Vadym Denysenko, who represents the Cabinet of Ministers in parliament, said.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 - The United States on Tuesday targeted more Russian businessmen and companies over Russia's annexation of Crimea and the conflict in Ukraine, slapping them with U.S. sanctions in a move Moscow criticized as hostile, Reuters reported.
KIEV, Dec. 19 – Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman during a telephone conversation with of the European Council President Donald Tusk discussed the issue of the introduction of a visa-free regime for Ukrainians by the EU and the completion of the ratification of the Association Agreement.
KIEV, Dec. 18 – President Petro Poroshenko expressed hope that the European Commission in the first half of 2016 will submit recommendations to the European institutions on the abolition of the visa regime with Ukraine.
KIEV, Dec. 18 – The International Monetary Fund-supported Extended Fund Facility (EFF) program for Ukraine may fail if the Ukrainian parliament does not pass the 2016 national budget, the IMF said in a press release.
KIEV, Dec. 18 - Ukraine has imposed a moratorium on the repayment of a $3 billion eurobond held entirely by Russia, Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk said on Friday, after Moscow refused to accept the terms of a restructuring of the debt, Reuters reported.
KIEV, Dec. 17 – The Ukrainian government has adopted a resolution "On limitation of the supply of certain goods [works, services] from the temporarily occupied territory to another territory of Ukraine and/or from another territory of Ukraine to the temporarily occupied territory."
MOSCOW, Dec. 17 – Economic relations between Ukraine and Russia will suffer due to the cancellation of the CIS free trade regime for the country on January 1, Russian President Vladimir Putin predicts.