KIEV, Aug. 18 – Turkmenistan expects President Viktor Yanukovych to make an official visit to the country, said Rashid Meredov, Turkmenistan’s deputy prime minister and foreign minister.
KIEV, Aug. 18 – President Viktor Yanukovych was declared the most influential person in Ukraine for the second consecutive year in a Top-100 rating drawn up by Korrespondent magazine.
KIEV, Aug. 17 - Former President Viktor Yushchenko has suggested that former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko could have rated political interests above national ones in signing the 2009 gas supply agreements with Russia.
KIEV, Aug. 18 – A judge on Thursday declined a request from imprisoned Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko to be seen by a doctor she can trust after apparently developing mysterious skin symptoms.
KIEV, Aug. 18 - Ukraine would reverse its Odessa-Brody oil pipeline to start moving Venezuelan crude to Belarus if Minsk increases the imports considerably, Transportation and Communications Minister Kostiantyn Yefimenko said Wednesday.
KIEV, Aug. 18 – Ukraine on Wednesday postponed for seven days its decision on grain export quotas, with government officials arguing more time was needed to investigate the issue.
KIEV, Aug. 17 - Ukraine's Q2 GDP dropped 18% year-on-year in like-for-like value, according to early estimates provided by the State Statistics Committee.
"The publication of the express bulletin 'GDP and Gross National Revenue of Ukraine for the second quarter of 2009' is slated for September 30, 2009," the committee said.
KIEV, Aug. 18 – President Viktor Yushchenko said Tuesday that continued purchases of Treasury bills by the National Bank of Ukraine may undermine the stability of the hryvnia, the local currency.
KIEV, Aug. 18 – President Viktor Yushchenko will “obviously” skip the next summit of leaders of the Commonwealth of Independent States following a sharp exchange with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Parliamentary Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn said Tuesday.
