KYIV, Dec 21 – Some 48% of Ukrainians believe that Ukraine should move towards joining the European Union, 13% are supporters of integration into the Eurasian Economic Union with the Russian Federation, Belarus and Kazakhstan, and 30% do not want to join any of the unions, according to the survey conducted by the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation and released on Monday.
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KYIV, Dec 21 – The State Budget of Ukraine for 2021 provides for an increase in funding for medicine, education and science, as well as the security and defense sector, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
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KYIV, Dec 21 – The number of detected cases of COVID-19 in Ukraine has been declining for the third week in a row, Health Minister Maksym Stepanov said during a press briefing in Kyiv on Monday.

"Over the past week, 70,327 cases of morbidity have been identified, over the previous week – 78,712. For the third week in a row, we observe a decrease in the number of detected cases," he said.
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KYIV, Dec 18 – President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukraine had lost its position in the world and Europe in terms of the priority of countries for receiving the vaccine against COVID-19, but despite this, the state "primarily bases its decision on choosing a safe vaccine," the President's Office said.
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KYIV, Dec 18 – Fight against corruption in Ukraine is critical both for building public trust in public institutions and for achieving a stronger, a more sustainable and inclusive economic growth, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the European Investment Bank (EIB) said in a joint statement.
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KYIV, Dec 18 – The level of settlements of state-owned enterprise Guaranteed Buyer with producers of electricity from renewable energy sources (RES) since the beginning of 2020 and as of December 16 amounted to 45.5%, according to updated data on the Guaranteed Buyer's website.
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GENEVA, Dec 19 - A report submitted to the U.N. Human Rights Council criticized Ukraine’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and warns that the Russian-backed conflict in eastern Ukraine threatens efforts to curb the pandemic. | More

KYIV, Dec 18 – Ukraine’s hryvnia will probably strengthen by the end of the year due to robust steel exports and growing appetite from foreign investors for domestic debt, Dragon Capital Investment Company reported.
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KYIV, Dec 18 – The Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) equals 65.7 in November (the values of indices can vary from 0 to 200), which is 3.3 points higher than in October, according to a study conducted by Info Sapiens.
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KYIV, Dec 18 – The state nuclear power generating company Energoatom has signed an agreement with the international law firm Shearman & Sterling on the provision of services for the preparation and submission of a dispute notice on its behalf against the Russian Federation, the company said on Friday.
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