In August, the official unemployment rate fell by 0.1 percentage point to 2.1%. The State Statistics Committee announced this. According to data of the State Statistics Committee, a total of 0.596 million unemployed people were registered with the State Employment Service as of September 1, 2007. A total of 0.632 million unemployed people were registered with the State Employment Service as of August 1. The highest unemployment rate was registered in Rivne region (4.0%), while the lowest unemployment rate was registered in Kyiv (0.3%) as of September 1. According to data of the State Statistics Committee, in August the state allocated UAH 149.6 million toward provision of unemployment benefits. A total of 508,600 …
President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko has signed a decree on appointment of Oleg Lytvak as his advisor. The text with the corresponding decree is on the official site of the Head of the State. Oleg Lytvak was born in 1949. He is a member of Ukrainian party “Unity”. In 1987-1992 he worked in the Prosecutor’s General office of the USSR, after that he took position of the deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine. Also, he headed the National bureau of investigations. In 1997-1998 he was acting Prosecutor General of Ukraine. He is deputy chairman of jurists Union of Ukraine.
The leading bookmakers in Ukraine are accepting bets 1:1.5 on Ukraine’s win over Georgia in the qualification match for the 2008 European Football Championship, which will take part on September 8 in Tbilisi. Draw bets are 1:3.5-1:3.8 (Favorite and Marathon 1:3.8, Bet Match 1:3.5) The leading bookmakers accept 1:6.2-1:7 bets on Georgia’s win (Marathon 1:6.2, Favorite 1:6.5, Bet Match 1:7). Odds may change before the start of the game depending on the gambling activity, but only slightly. As UkrainianClub earlier reported, Ukraine won the Lithuanian team 1:0, Fareos in Toftir, Fareo Islands 2:0, Georgia at home with a score 3:2 and Scotland – 2:0 in a qualification march for the 2008 European Football …
The European Commission for Foreign Relations, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, asked Ukraine to give up visa requirements for Romanians and Bulgarians, in order to help the adoption of the special visa regime between the European Union and Kiev, according to Mediafax, quoting the Ukrainian News Agency online.
The commissioner added however that the EU is not conditioning Ukraine’s accession to the World Trade Organisation on the elimination of visa …
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News on terrorist act in Beirut on 19 of September of 2007, which caused victims among civil population, in particularly member of Lebanese parliament Antoine Ghanem, was received in Ukraine with deep concern, according to the MFA press-service.
Ukraine is strongly condemning a practice of political killings and terrorist attacks in Lebanon and hopes that Lebanese people will not be provoked and will not allow deepening of internal political …
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A Ukrainian citizen was killed in an automobile accident on the Antalia-Belek road in Turkey in September 7.
The press service of the Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Ministry announced this in a statement, a text of which Ukrainian News obtained.
According to the statement, the Ukrainian citizen worked as a guide for a tourist agency.
His body is scheduled to be sent to Ukraine in a coffin on September 10.
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