KHARKIV, Feb. 15 – President Viktor Yanukovych has announced plans to boost gross domestic product by at least UAH 100 billion per year.
"We've finally passed a trillion [hryvnias per year] of GDP," he said during a meeting of the regional committee on economic reform in Kiev on Tuesday.
KIEV, Feb. 15 – President Viktor Yanukovych has signed an order to intensify the talks on the conclusion of an association agreement between Ukraine and the European Union, including the provisions on the formation of a free trade area.
KIEV, Feb. 16 - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kostiantyn Hryschenko have signed an agreement on nuclear security in Washington, the U.S. Department of State said in a press release.
The purpose of the agreement is to intensify cooperation in the sphere of protecting vulnerable nuclear materials and the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons.
KIEV, Feb. 16 – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that the United States will continue to remain a reliable friend and partner of Ukraine, and interested in its success.
KIEV, Feb. 16 – European leaders spoke directly with President Viktor Yanukovych to express their concern over travel restrictions imposed by the authorities on Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko.
KIEV, Feb. 16 – Ukraine's president-elect Viktor Yanukovych will take an oath of loyalty to the Ukrainian people at an extraordinary ceremonial meeting of the Verkhovna Rada on February 25.
A total of 238 MPs passed a resolution to that effect on Tuesday.
KIEV, Feb. 16 – Outgoing President Viktor Yushchenko said Tuesday the policies of his newly elected successor risk turning Ukraine back into a Kremlin vassal state, the Associated Press reported.
MOSCOW, Feb. 16 - Standard & Poor's Ratings Services has placed its 'B' long-term foreign currency and 'B+' local currency sovereign credit ratings on Ukraine on CreditWatch with negative implications, reflecting mounting execution risks to the country's Standby Arrangement with the IMF.
KIEV, Feb. 16 – The rapid worsening of the economic climate and conditions for operating businesses in Ukraine is affecting the main credit characteristics of the banks in the country, according to a report by Standard & Poor's.
