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22.12.2011The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passed the law on the national budget for 2012 at second reading on Thursday.
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22.12.2011Verkhovna 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.
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22.12.2011The 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.
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22.12.2011The 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.
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22.12.2011Ex-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.
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22.12.2011The 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.
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21.12.2011The 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.
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21.12.2011Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has formed the State Service for Regulatory Policy and Development of Entrepreneurship.
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21.12.2011Ukrainian FEMEN activists are intending to stage another protest in Belarus.
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21.12.2011Valentyna 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.
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21.12.2011A 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).
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21.12.2011Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has said he is interested in former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's release from prison.
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21.12.2011Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has said he is confident that the gas issue with Russia will be positively resolved.
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21.12.2011The Ukrainian government could hold an extraordinary session to approve the new terms of gas agreements with Russia, Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has said.
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21.12.2011The Russian and Ukrainian presidents have agreed to instruct their governments to complete the work on gas cooperation issues.