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- Tymoshenko Says Reserve Budget Has No Financing For Early Rada Elections
She announced this at a press conference.

- Tymoshenko Bloc Asks Constitutional Court To Assess Constitutionality Of Decree On Early Rada Elections
The prime minister and the BYT leader announced this at a press conference.

- Cabinet To Ask Rada To Amend 2008 State Budget To Allocate Funds For Financing Early Parliamentary Elections
The Presidential Secretariat’s first deputy head Oleksandr Shlapak announced this to journalists.

- Utility Economy Ministry: Introduction Of Energy Saving Technologies Only Way To Low Price For Housing And Public Utility Services
Deputy Housing and Public Utility Economy Minister Serhii Zymyn told this to the press.

- Yanukovych Calls For Early Elections To Rada To Be Held As Soon As Possible
He said this to the press during a service in a monastery in Kyiv.

- Vinnytsia Governor Dombrovskyi To Resign
He said this at the meeting of the extended collegiate body of the regional state administration and regional council on October 14.

- Cabinet Refuses To Allocate Funds For Early Elections To Rada
According to Lutsenko, 15 members of the Cabinet of Ministers voted against the allocation of the financing from the reserve fund.

- UkrFA, Ukrmet Call For Program On Crisis In Metallurgy To Be Drawn Up With Taking Into Consideration WTO Requirements
Ukrainian News learned this from a joint statement by the association, the wording of which was made available to the agency.

- NBU Warns Banks That Restrictions On Servicing Other Banks'Payment Cards At Their ATMs Are Unacceptable
The NBU's Deputy Chairman Volodymyr Krotiuk, who is the temporary administrator of Prominvestbank, announced this in a statement.

- Temperature Of +14...+16 C, No Precipitations In Kyiv On Wednesday
On October 15, partly cloudy weather, light rain in the morning and in the daytime, and western wind of 5-10 m/s are expected in Kyiv. Temperature will stand at +8...+10 C at night, and at +14...+16 C in the daytime.

- Naftohaz Ukrainy Concerned Over Kharkiv Authorities’ Statements On Inability Of Municipal Heat Power Plants To Repay Gas Debts
Naftohaz Ukrainy press service told this to the Ukrainian News agency.

- Constitutional Court Rules As Unconstitutional President's Control Over NCRC
The Constitutional Court announced the award on Tuesday.

- Gazprom To Boost Drafting Of Contracts On Gas Supplies To Ukraine
Gazprom said this in the report.

- CEC Deputy Head Points To Absence Of Money For Snap Election
He said this in a TV Channel 5 interview.

- Tymoshenko Bloc To Challenge Decree On Liquidation Of Kyiv District Administrative Court
MP Valerii Pysarenko of the bloc told this to Ukrainian News.

- Yatseniuk Wants Expert Economic Council To Convene For First Meeting On October 14
Ukrainian News learned this from a statement by the press service of the Verkhovna Rada.

- BYT To Ask Internal Affairs Ministry To Open Case Upon Pressure On Judges
BYT deputy Andrii Kozhemiakin told to the press.

- Fitch: Risks In Ukrainian Banking System Increase
The agency also said that risks will rise in the nearest future, which is entailed with global financial crisis, worsening of the macroeconomic indicators, political uncertainty.

- Ex-Head Of PACE Monitoring Committee Disappointed With Calling Of Early Rada Elections In Ukraine
Ukrainian News learned this from the liaison department of the Cabinet of Ministers.

- Yuschenko Liquidates Kyiv District Administrative Court
Yuschenko resolved that the Central District Administrative Court of Kyiv (37 judges) and the Left-Bank District Administrative Court of Kyiv (22 judges) are established as of October 14.

- Lytvyn Not Ruling Out Cancellation Of Decree Disbanding Rada
He said this at a press conference in Simferopol.

- Ukraine Holding Talks With UEFA On Reducing Number Of Five-Star Hotels Required For Euro 2012
Deputy Prime Minister Ivan Vasiunyk announced this during an Internet conference on the website www.liga.net.

- NBU Retains Official Hryvnia Rate At 4.9201 UAH/USD
During the previous trading day, the National Bank of Ukraine increased the hryvnia's official exchange rate that corresponds to the average rate at which transactions are concluded on the interbank currency market by 0.70 kopeck to 4.9201 UAH/USD for October 13.

- Transport Ministry Raises Railway Tariffs On International Passenger Transportations By 20% As Of October 11
Ukrainian News learned this from the press service of the ministry.

- UPDATE: PFTS Share Index Down By 17.03 Points To 293.80 Points
The share index of the First Stock Trading System stock exchange (PFTS) fell by 17.03 points or 5.48% to 293.80 points on Monday, the PFTS press service informed.

- Interbank Hryvnia Rate Down By 20 Kopecks To 5.2 UAH/USD
According to dealers of commercial banks, at the beginning of the trading session the quotations fluctuated within 5.12-5.28 UAH/USD, then narrowed to 5.17-5.25 UAH/USD and remained unchanged by the end of the trades.

- Deputy Chairman Of High Administrative Court Tsurkan Hospitalized Due To Heart Attack
Press service of the court said this in the report.

- Agrarian Sector Non-Government Organizations Asking Yuschenko To Adjourn Rada Dissolution
«Viktor Andriyovych should make [deputies] endorse three major trends: tax, land and budget policy for 2009. Thus, he should postpone the decree,» president of the Framers and Private Landowners Association Ivan Tomych said.

- Prominvestbank’s Temporary Administrator Krotiuk Says Bank May Seek Strategic Investor
Krotiuk was speaking to journalists.

- Prominvestbank Limits Amounts Of Cash That Holders Of Its Cards Can Withdraw Via ATMs And Cash Offices
The National Bank of Ukraine's Deputy Chairman Volodymyr Krotiuk, who is the temporary administrator of Prominvestbank, announced this to journalists.

- Ukrainian Population Down By 10,200 To 46.20 Million In August
Ukrainian News learned this from the State Statistics Committee.

- UPDATE: Yuschenko Urges Cabinet To Grant Funds To CEC For Early Parliamentary Elections By 5:00 PM
President Viktor Yuschenko has urged the Cabinet of Ministers to grant funds to the Central Election Commission for financing preparations and holding of the early Verkhovna Rada elections scheduled for December 7 by 5:00 pm, Monday, October 13.

- Yuschenko Asks Regional Governors To Ensure Proper Organization Of Early Parliamentary Elections
The presidential press service announced this in a statement.

- Yuschenko: Rostrum Blocking Political Raid Attack
He said this opening the National Security and Defense Council meeting.

- Yanukovych Says His Party Will Seek Russian Language To Be Ukraine's Second Official
"All speculations and distortion of facts are aimed at breeding mistrust among our voters, and convincing them that the Party of Regions is ready to postpone consideration of granting the status of second official language to Russian," the press service quoted Yanukovych as saying.

- Communist Party To Hold Congress October 19
Communist Party leader Petro Symonenko said this at a press conference.

- Yuschenko Cancels Local Police Creation
Yuschenko revoked Presidential Decree No. 29 of January 22, 2001, which initiated arrangement of local police.

- NBU Restricts Early Withdrawal Of Bank Deposits
This is stated in the NBU’s resolution No. 319 of October 11, a text of which Ukrainian News obtained.

- MP Oliinyk (Tymoshenko Bloc) Asking Prosecutors To Verify Legitimacy Of Kyiv Administrative Courts Occupation By Securities, State Guards
Oliinyk addressed a relevant demand to the Prosecutor General's Office.

- Tomenko: Third Session Of Sixth Rada Most Efficient
He said this at a press conference.

- Deputy Secretariat Head Stavniichuk Considers Election Legislation Changes Are Not Necessary For Snap Rada Elections
Ukrainian News learned this from Stavniichuk herself.

- Temperature Of +16...+18 C, No Precipitations In Kyiv On Tuesday
Ukrainian News learned this from the weather center.

- Three MPs (Tymoshenko Bloc) Suggest Rada Allows Municipal Councils To Create District Administrations In Cities Without District Councils
This is stated in draft law No. 3240 on Amendments to the Act on Local Government in Ukraine (creation of district administrations), registered in the Verkhovna Rada on October 1.

- Lutsenko Suggests Simultaneous Rada And President Elections To Settle Political Crisis
He expressed this opinion in an interview with 24 newspaper on October 13.

- Socialist Party To Take Part In Snap Parliamentary Elections
Party leader Oleksandr Moroz said this in the report.

- Kyrylenko Rules Out Coalition With Yedynyi Tsentr At Snap Parliamentary Elections
This is stated in a press-release circulated by the OU- PSD press-service.

- Ukraine, United States Pleased With Bilateral Consular Cooperation
At the October 10 meeting at the Department of Sate building in Washington (U.S.), Oleksandr Kupchyshyn, deputy foreign affairs minister of Ukraine, and Michael Kirby, US under secretary for public diplomacy and public affairs, discussed the issues of bilateral consular cooperation.

- Prosecutors Incriminate Knowingly Unjust Ruling To Kyiv District Court Judge Keleberda
This was stated in a press release of the Prosecutor General's Office.

- Kyiv's Administrative Court Of Appeal To Consider Presidential Secretariat's Appeal Against Suspension Of Rada's Dissolution October 13
Ruslan Kyryliuk, head of the Presidential Secretariat's Service for defending president's interests at courts, announced this to reporters.

- President's Secretariat Warning BYuT About Criminal Responsibility For Preventing Appeal Against Suspension Of President's Decree On Verkhovna Rada Dissolution
The President's Secretariat claims about criminal responsibility the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc faction deputies may bear for preventing appeals against suspension of President Viktor Yuschenko's decree on dissolving the Verkhovna Rada and calling early parliamentary elections.


