KIEV, Dec. 23 – While a radical improvement of the state of Ukraine's balance of payment was not seen in November, the rise in the deficit of the current and financial account slowed against October’s, Valeriy Lytvytsky, the head of the group of advisors to the NBU governor, told Interfax-Ukraine.

He said that export and imports in November 2008 fell first since the 1990s in absolute figures: last month imports fell by 5.6% and exports by 14.8%.