KIEV, Jan. 17 – Ukraine should work on the deregulation and simplification of issuing permits to rank among the top 100 countries in the Doing Business rating of the World Bank, President Viktor Yanukovych said.
KIEV, Jan. 18 – Ukraine’s opposition Svoboda party on Friday vowed to take legal action to try to stop a production sharing agreement with Royal Dutch Shell on extraction of shale gas.
KIEV, Jan. 18 - Prosecutors said they will seek life imprisonment for jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko amid new claims of her alleged involvement in the murder of a lawmaker and businessman in the 1990s.
KIEV, Jan. 19 – The National Bank of Ukraine has injected over 99% of its non-cash emissions in 2010 into foreign currency purchases, the NBU said in a posting on its Web site.
KYOTO, Jan. 20 - Japanese businesses are ready to help Ukraine take a leading position among developed countries, the chairman of the Japanese-Ukrainian Economic Council, Hakuo Yanagisawa, has said.
KIEV, Jan. 20 – Two explosions rocked the city of Makiyivka on Thursday, shattering a coal company headquarters and a marketplace, and sending hundreds of security agents and police to investigate the “terrorist” strike.
KIEV, Jan. 20 – Two unsuccessful presidential candidates whose voters remain prized assets for Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych on Wednesday called on their supporters to come to the polls and to reject both.
KIEV, Jan. 20 – President Viktor Yushchenko, who failed to win reelection, on Wednesday vowed to stay in politics, suggesting he will lead his Our Ukraine party at likely early parliamentary elections within the “next few months.”
KIEV, Jan. 20 - Prime Minster Yulia Tymoshenko on Wednesday suggested nominating Serhiy Tyhypko, the No. 3 most popular politician, as the next prime minister in the event of her winning the presidential election next month.
KIEV, Jan. 19 – A technical mission of the International Monetary Fund will soon arrive in Ukraine to study the situation in the country and prepare to allocate another tranche of its $17 billion stand-by credit, said Deputy Prime Minister Hryhoriy Nemyria.
