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Ukraine's parliament adopts state budget for 2012

17:52

22.12.2011

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passed the law on the national budget for 2012 at second reading on Thursday.

Rada refuses to put issue of decriminalizing charges against Tymoshenko on agenda

16:46

22.12.2011

Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has refused to put on its agenda the issue of decriminalizing Article 365 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, under which Ukraine's premier Yulia Tymoshenko was convicted.

Batkivschyna to run for 2012 parliamentary elections with its own party list, form majority with Front for Change in parliament, says Sobolev

14:49

22.12.2011

The leader of the opposition government and BYT-Batkivschyna faction, MP Serhiy Sobolev, has described as positive the intention by the Front for Change and For Ukraine! parties to unite their efforts during the campaign before the parliamentary elections scheduled for 2012.

Parliament could consider decriminalization of Tymoshenko article at evening sitting on Thursday, says Lytvyn

14:29

22.12.2011

The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, will decide at its evening sitting on Thursday whether it would consider a bill on the decriminalization of Article 365 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine under which former Ukrainian Premier Yulia Tymoshenko was convicted.

Tymoshenko won't appeal her gas case sentence

11:47

22.12.2011

Ex-Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, sentenced by the Kyiv Pechersky District Court to seven years in the gas case, says she will take no part in hearings of the Kyiv Court of Appeals.

Tymoshenko's defense team refuses to attend court hearings into appeal against gas case verdict

11:13

22.12.2011

The defense team of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko will no longer participate in a court session on the consideration of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's appeal against the gas case verdict, her defense lawyer, Serhiy Vlasenko, has said.

Ukraine's cabinet approves 2012 draft budget based on gas price of $416 per 1,000 cubic meters

20:53

21.12.2011

The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has approved a draft national budget for 2012, which is based on the current natural gas contracts, Agrarian Policy Minister Mykola Prysiazhniuk told reporters on Wednesday.

President creates state service for regulatory policy and development of entrepreneurship

19:17

21.12.2011

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has formed the State Service for Regulatory Policy and Development of Entrepreneurship.

FEMEN to stage another protest in Belarus

18:42

21.12.2011

Ukrainian FEMEN activists are intending to stage another protest in Belarus.

Attorney of Gongadze's widow appeals closure of criminal case against Kuchma

16:35

21.12.2011

Valentyna Telychenko, the lawyer of journalist Georgy Gongadze's widow Myroslava Gongadze, has lodged an appeal with Kyiv Court of Appeals against a ruling by Kyiv Pechersky District Court to close a criminal case against Ukraine's second president (1994-2005) Leonid Kuchma on suspicion of his involvement in the journalist's murder.

Court of appeals confirms legality of Tymoshenko's arrest in UESU case

15:00

21.12.2011

A panel of judges of Kyiv's Court of Appeals has declared legal a ruling by the Shevchenkivsky District Court of Kyiv to choose a measure of restraint for former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in the form of arrest in the case on the United Energy Systems of Ukraine (UESU).

Yanukovych not against Tymoshenko's release from prison

13:23

21.12.2011

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has said he is interested in former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's release from prison.

Yanukovych: Ukraine to resolve gas issue with Russia

11:19

21.12.2011

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has said he is confident that the gas issue with Russia will be positively resolved.

Ukrainian energy, justice ministers stay in Moscow for further gas talks

10:39

21.12.2011

The Ukrainian government could hold an extraordinary session to approve the new terms of gas agreements with Russia, Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has said.

Medvedev, Yanukovych to order gas talks completion

09:57

21.12.2011

The Russian and Ukrainian presidents have agreed to instruct their governments to complete the work on gas cooperation issues.