In October 2006, the League of Ukrainian Canadians carried out a campaign in ensuring that Rogerscable Communications Inc., once again use correct phonetic and linguistic transliteration of the Ukrainian TV program names on Rogers’ Interactive Program Guide (IPG).This campaign was mainly conducted through E-petitions on LUC’s website, www.lucorg.com.The Ukrainian community immediately communicated to Rogerscable Communications Inc. its disapproval of this practice...
Parliament, led by the pro-government coalition, ignored key demands from President Viktor Yushchenko on Tuesday when it had voted to approve the 2007 budget, a senior aide to the president said. Arseniy Yatseniuk, Yushchenko’s deputy chief of staff, said he will recommend the president to again veto the budget, a move that will most certainly lead to financial crunch next month.
Ukraine has been rapidly drifting towards a major political clash on Monday after the government had openly challenged constitutional powers of President Viktor Yushchenko by refusing to dismiss seven top police officials. Yushchenko used his constitutional powers Friday to suspend the government’s resolution appointing the officials that are thought to be loyal to Yanukovych’s Regions Party and its political allies...
The agreement, signed by South Korean Science Minister Kim Woo-sik and Valery Komarov, Ukraine’s first deputy director general of the National Space Agency, will allow South Korea and Ukraine to cooperate in various scientific fields, including basic space science, satellite systems development and launching technologies, South Korean officials said...
Ukraine's Naftohaz Ukrayiny won a tender to develop oil and gas deposits in Egypt. The Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported Monday that the international tender was to develop deposits at Alam El Shawish East in the western Egyptian desert...
Ukraine should resist Russian efforts to encroach on the development of Ukraine's own uranium deposits, a newspaper has reported. The author said the director of the Ukrainian nuclear power company Enerhoatom, Andriy Derkach, discussed the possibility of lowering the price of Russian nuclear fuel in exchange for allowing Russia to extract uranium in Ukraine...
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has said the problem of VAT administration shows that corruption in the State Tax Administration is back. He was speaking at the opening of the National Security and Defence Council's session in Kyiv today...
Indications are multiplying that the Ukrainian government is abandoning a project to extend the Odessa-Brody pipeline into Poland as a route for Kazakhstani oil outside Russian control. Instead, the Ukrainian government now intends to connect the Odessa-Brody pipeline with the Druzhba pipeline that carries Russian oil westward via Ukraine and Slovakia...
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