KIEV, Sept. 16 – Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Wednesday appointed Oleksandr Savchenko, the recently resigned central banker, as a deputy finance minister.

KIEV, Sept. 14 – President Viktor Yushchenko has complained about the non-transparency of the financial liabilities and agreements that Ukraine has taken on under the Geneva agreements on the introduction of digital television that it signed in 2006.

KIEV, Sept. 15 – The cost of the presidential campaign could be up to $1 billion, according to Denys Bogush, vice president of the Ukrainian PR-League.

"The main candidates might spend more, but not less. The cost of these elections will be up to $1 billion," he said.

ASHGABAT, Sept. 15 – The foreign ministries of Ukraine and Turkmenistan signed a protocol on cooperation after talks in Ashgabat on Tuesday.

In addition, the agriculture ministries of Ukraine and Turkmenistan signed an agreement on cooperation in the field of testing and protecting sorts of plants.

KIEV, Sept. 16 – Ukrainian Economy Minister Bohdan Danylyshyn and South Africa's Ambassador to Ukraine Andries Venter have discussed trade and economic cooperation between the two countries, the Ukrainian Economy Ministry reported on Wednesday.

KIEV, Sept. 16 – Presidents of Ukraine and Turkmenistan Viktor Yushchenko and Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow have opened the Atamurat-Kerkichi railway bridge across the Amu Darya River and participated in a ceremony to lay the foundation of a road bridge across the river.

KIEV, Sept. 16 – The draft 2009 national budget drawn up by the government foresees a 104.5% rise in foreign loans, to UAH 16.56 billion, and a 76.9% rise in domestic loans, to UAH 13.76 billion.

KIEV, Sept. 16 – Ukraine's real GDP growth in 2008 will be 6.8%, according to Concorde Capital Investment Company analyst Andriy Parkhomenko.

KIEV, Sept. 16 - Ukraine's cabinet has increased its 2008 balance of trade deficit forecast from $15.416 billion to $17.713 billion.

KIEV, Sept. 16 – A little-known Crimean Tatar organization Tuesday asked Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to protect this ethnic group from “discrimination” and “genocide” by the Ukrainian authorities, triggering an angry rebuke from mainstream Crimean Tatar groups.