The draft on Amending the Law on State's Budget 2008 and Certain Legal Acts (on subsistence wage rate) withdraw the norm of law defining social assistance to low-income families under 75% of the subsistence wage for a family.
The President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko request the Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko to revise the issue of staying in their positions of Aleksey Ischenko, Taras Kozak, Alexander Parshin, Olga Ginzburf, Alexander Zadorozhny. The request is sent by letter
The President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko canceled the directive of ex-president Leonid Kuchma on assigning Susanne Stanik to the position of the Constitutional Court judge, according to the president's site of 3 April. Yesterday the President Viktor Yushchenko restored Susanne
The Ministry of transport and Communications of Ukraine is going to return 24 airports from the communal property to the state one. The International airport 'Donetsk' is also on the list, according to UNIAN.Per ministry's data, such plans are provided
Ukrainian popular singer Sofia Rotary took part yesterday in the action organized by the Party of Regions 'Donbass is against NATO'.The legendary singer sang several hits for the action participants on Lenin Square in Donetsk. She said, 'I want you
Party of Regions leader Viktor Yanukovych considers that retention of military and political neutrality is of national interests of Ukraine."I am sure that neutral status is not only of our national interests, but also is preferred by our eastern and
The State Property Fund transferred UAH 215.539 mn into the state budget in January-March as revenues from the sale of state-owned property, an SPF official said.Revenues from privatization made up UAH 220.741 mn as of April 1.The State Property Fund
The International Monetary Fund's resident representative in Ukraine Balazs Horvath intends to fight for preservation of the fund's resident representative office in Ukraine."I am traveling to Washington tomorrow (April 4) to continue discussing this issue," Horvath said in an interview
German Ambassador to Ukraine Reinhard Schafers considers that Ukraine is not ready to join the action plan on membership of NATO.Ukraine neglected necessary preparation for joining NATO MAP in April, he stated during an appearance on Fifth TV Channel on
Ukraine's foreign ministry has called on the European Union to draft a new political formula for its relations with Ukraine."We are calling on the member-countries of the European Union to draft a new political formula for Ukraine's interrelations with the
The Cabinet of Ministers is proposing that the Verkhovna Rada limit trade markup added to manufacturer's price of socially important goods for retail sale to 10%, PM Yulia Tymoshenko told reporters Thursday.The government has already brought in the bill foreseeing
NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer has vowed the alliance's backing up Ukrainian reforms facilitating its joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization."NATO will support Ukraine, if it is necessary to the process of reforms. I want to assure you,
The interference of President Viktor Yushchenko and his Secretariat with the Cabinet of Ministers' personnel selection and placement policy is tactless, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko told the press Thursday."As regards personnel policy, as the prime minister I am responsible for
MP Anatoliy Hrytsenko, OU-PSD stated against Ukrainian recognition of Kosovo's independence at the present stage, Moscow Ekho Moskvy radio reported him as saying."Kosovo is a challenge, it is a violation of the regimen that has existed for decades, and it
