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KIEV, Ukraine - The International Monetary Fund drastically darkened its economic outlook for Ukraine on Friday as it gave tentative approval for a $3.3 billion installment of a rescue loan the country needs to avoid a total economic meltdown.

Ukrainian prosecutors suspect Russia's wanted and self-exiled tycoon Boris Berezovsky to be involved in alleged poisoning of President Viktor Yushchenko and questioned him in London, the Segodnya daily reported on Thursday.

Opinion Porn is now illegal in the Ukraine, unless used for medicinal purposes. Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko last week signed off on new legislation joining the Ukraine to an ever-lengthening list of countries that have decided to move the censorship goalposts over the last few years, from publication of porn on to simple possession of it.

The Cabinet of Ministers has decided to increase the statutory fund of the Naftohaz Ukrainy national joint-stock company from UAH 18.6 million to UAH 24.165 million, Fuel and Energy Minister Yurii Prodan told the press, Kyiv Post reported.

The Head of State said he hails the decision of the EBRD to participate in these programs not only as its administrator but as its donor too.

Jul 08 - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin gives Moscow's bikers a Russian flag as they set off on a journey to Sevastopol in the Crimea to celebrate Russian Navy Day.

Date : Sat, 4 Jul 2009 17:26:54 PDT 3 criminal cases were instigated on the incident in Marganets, Dnepropetrovsk 04.07.2009 15:15 GMT+04:00 /PanARMENIAN.Net/ 3 criminal cases were instigated on the incident in Marganets, Dnepropetrovsk, Head of Ukraine MIA Central Administration in Dnepropetrovsk region, Anatoliy Naumenko said.

President of Ukraine Victor Yushchenko calls on Lithuania to promote realization of the project of Euro-Asian oil transport corridor.

Frankly, I was not exactly bursting with this subject. I had been watching for some time the aggrandizement of Ivan Mazepa in today's Ukraine and saying to myself: any country needs heroes.

IMF mission to attend extraordinary Ukrainian government session on July 6, loan decision could be announced Yesterday, 12:27 Staff and wire reports, Kyiv Post The Cabinet of Ministers will convene for an extraordinary session at 3pm on July 6 in the presence of delegations from an International Monetary Fund mission visiting Ukraine, Ukrainian ...

When Washington and Moscow get cozy, the saying goes, Russia's neighbors get nervous.

They behaved in a very provoking manner,' he said. 'Azerbaijanis are very peaceful people.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Thursday met and discussed bilateral ties with Wang Gang, member of the Communist Party of China Central Committee Political Bureau, a Chinese official said Friday.

Date : Sat, 4 Jul 2009 15:03:06 +0500 UKRAINE ORDERS PROBE ON 1944 DEPORTATION OF CRIMEAN TATARS WorldBulletin Friday, 03 July 2009 11:32 Ukraine's President ordered Ukrainian Intelligence Service and Prosecutor to probe mass deportation of Crimean Tatar Muslims in 1944.

Nikopol Ferroalloy Works , Ukraine's biggest ferroalloy producer, has been running at full capacity since July 1. All specialists who had been sent on forced leave are now back at work and salaries are being paid in full, the Dnipropetrovsk regional administration said in a press release.

Kyiv Post editor Katya Gorchinskaya writes: Growing crowds take on to traditional Ukrainian dress, but what actually is the core of modern Ukrainian identity? If there is one thing that struck me at the latest Krayina Mriy ethnic music festival, it's the crowd of people wearing traditional dress.

Matches of the first qualifying round of the inaugural UEFA Europa League will take place today in 23 cities of the continent.

Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has requested the Verkhovna Rada to urgently consider the issue of stripping deputy from the Bloc of Yulia Timoshenko Viktor Lozinsky, who is suspected of murdering citizen Valery Oliynik, of immunity.

Mosnews is reporting that all pornography has been outlawed in the Ukraine. President Viktor Yushchenko signed the law today over the objections of human rights activists and artists who had asked him to veto it.

Gross domestic production in Ukraine, one of the world's most recession-battered economies, contracted by 20 per cent in the first quarter of 2009, according to official government figures released on June 30.