Ukraine News

The Government Action Program: Practices and Possibilities
The Action Program of Tymoshenko’s government (2005) rather reminded a publicist writing. Ukraine got a new President, MPs approved, by a constitutional majority, a new government led by Yulia Tymoshenko and its Action Program "Towards the People" and sometimes supported the Cabinet proposals for the implementation of social policy.

Government to Take Care about Children, and Children of War to Be Equated to Veterans


Lutsenko Made New Replacements in Crimea
Home Affairs Minister Yuriy Lutsenko has appointed major general Mykola Illichev a head of Crimean department. Before, this post was chaired by Anatoliy Mohylyov

Anti-crisis Managers of Yulia Tymoshenko
However, it is customary among banking circles to believe that Mr. Buryak’s true purpose is to step into his father’s shoes and become the head of the National Bank of Ukraine. And the State Tax Administration is just another step on his way to the cherished ambition.

New Year's Address of the President of Ukraine
We have to think of life and act for the sake of life, for our children, wives, parents, for the sake of continuation of our kin, for its health and its future. We are able to restore truth about or history. We are able to realize essence of our belonging to Ukrainian nation. We are capable of deeper, kinder, more tolerant feelings towards each other. And we must speak of this every day. And we must act every day.

PRESIDENT SIGNS THE BUDGET
President Viktor Yushchenko signed the Law on the 2008 State Budget and making amendments to some laws, according to the President’s press-service

Patriot Games
Excessive attention of mass media to appointment of Rayisa Bohatyryova to the post of the NSDC Secretary distracted people from more important events both in the authority and the opposition. These events have interlaced and created several very interesting paradoxes.

Yushchenko Promises to Sign Budget Bill
President Viktor Yushchenko will sign the law on the state budget as soon as all the judicial essentials are satisfied.

Yushchenko Repeals His 25 Decrees
On Saturday, President Viktor Yushchenko signed 25 decrees to nullify the presidential resolutions suspending the operation of the former government acts.

Lutsenko Returns New and Mature
Vitaly Yarema appointed the new head of the Kyiv central police office was presented to the office personnel by Interior Minister (IM) Yuriy Lutsenko.

RADA ADOPTS STATE BUDGET IN THE FIRST READING
The Verkhovna Rada adopted the 2008 State Budget in the first reading. The decision was supported by 243 MPs.

Yanukovych and Tymoshenko Take the Lead Over Yushchenko
If presidential elections had occurred in the coming days, 24.4% of Ukrainians would have supported Viktor Yanukovych

Accused of the Gongadze Murder Are Justiciable
The Kyiv Appellate Court heard the results of the expertise of those accused of the journalist Georgy Gongadze’s murder and ruled that they are justiciable.

PRU Expels Bohatyryova
Party of Regions (PRU) member Anatoliy Tolstoukhov claims that newly-appointed National Security and Defence Council Secretary Rayisa Bohatyryova will be expelled from the party

NU-NS Ready to Extend Land Moratorium
Our Ukraine-People’s Self-Defense Bloc leader Vyacheslav Kyrylenko announced his faction readiness to support extension of the moratorium on the agricultural land sale