KIEV, Oct. 28 – President Viktor Yushchenko indicated Wednesday he will sign a controversial bill that dramatically increases social spending less than three months before the next presidential election.
KIEV, Oct. 28 - Russia and Ukraine are making progress in natural gas talks and will probably sign an agreement on 2009 supplies before the end of November, a source in the Ukrainian government said Tuesday.
KIEV, Oct. 28 – Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, along with the finance minister and the governor of the National Bank of Ukraine, are expected to join a meeting in Parliament Wednesday to speed up the approval of an economic rescue package.
KIEV, Oct. 28 – The National Bank of Ukraine on Tuesday let the hryvnia slide to 5.50 to the U.S. dollar in a move that may open the way for aggressive depreciation of the local currency.
KIEV, Oct. 28 – Russia has been seeking to hike by almost 50% prices of natural gas to be supplied to Ukraine next year, but Kiev has rejected the dramatic hike as politically motivated.
NEW YORK, Sept 27 - A majority of U.S. House Republicans rejected a series of efforts to cut back on funding for Ukraine on Wednesday, voting down a trio of amendments to a Pentagon appropriations bill that would have curtailed Washington’s financial support for Kyiv.
KYIV, Sept 28 – Ukraine needs $43 billion in external financing from the state budget in 2024; attracting it will be more difficult than this year; the Ministry of Finance is doing everything possible to guarantee its receipt, Minister Serhiy Marchenko said on the national telethon on Thursday.
WASHINGTON, Sept 28 - The House late Thursday night overwhelmingly approved $300 million in new aid to Ukraine. The 311-117 vote came after House GOP leaders on Wednesday stripped the Ukraine assistance from a Pentagon funding bill. All “no” votes came from Republicans, The Hill reported.
KYIV, Sept 27 – The Cabinet of Ministers has agreed on the signing of an agreement with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on the establishment of a project office in the country to provide it with technical and humanitarian assistance in the face of Russian military aggression.
