Tests taken from 34 swine flue suspects in Ukraine were examined in a London lab, confirming the swine flue in15 cases, a ZIK correspondent quotes deputy health minister of Ukraine Zenovij Mytnyk as telling journalists on Nov. 5.

Accusing presidential candidate Inna Bohoslovska of disseminating false information about the alleged existence of pneumonic plague that contributed to panic in Ukraine, NUNS member Yury Hrymchak said he is going to file an appeal with the Prosecutor General's Office of

Addressing journalists in Kyiv Nov. 4, director of Sofia think tank Andrij Yermolayev said he was astonished and alarmed by the way the authorities are handling the flue outbreak, our Kyiv correspondent reports.

The head of ArsenyYatseniuk's campaign staff in the Lviv oblast, Oleksandr Hanushchyn, has resigned over his disagreement with his boss' new agenda. Hanushchyn explained why he had resigned at his Nov. 4 press conference in Lviv.

Pres Yushchenko has tabled a bill whereby UAH2.5-million deposits by presidential candidates will be repaid to them if they garner 7% of the vote in the first round or if their registration has been cancelled by the Central Election Commission.

In addition to the known types of flue, there is a new one which may be different from the swine flue. It kills and there are no tested pharmaceuticals against it, says Ukraine Minister of Health Vasyl Knyazevych.

The major enemy of UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent Army in WWII) was Soviet interior ministry, NKVD, troops, not the Red Army, Ukraine security service archive director Volodymyr Vyatrovych says. There are documents in the archive about the operations of UPA and

Nov. 2, Ukraine Health Minister Vasyl Knyazevych publicized his appeal to Ukrainian politicians. "I'm calling on you to refrain from fueling tensions in the country, creating panic and spreading pseudo medical recommendations in the media," his appeal runs.