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The Ministry of Economy forecasts that in 2005 the hryvnia exchange rate will fluctuate at the level of 5.0-5.1 UAH/USD. This was stated by Economy Minister Serhiy Teriokhin, speaking on Friday at the forum "Government and Business - Partners," reports "Ukrainian News.
"In two to three weeks we will introduce a new registration procedure," Yushchenko said at the business forum "Government and Business – Partners," which took place in Kyiv on Friday.
The agenda of the regular shareholders' meeting of JSC "Lutsk Automobile Plant" (LuAZ), scheduled for March 18, 2005, at the request of a shareholder owning more than 10% of the charter fund, has been supplemented with an issue regarding the issuance of bonds, according to the official publication of the State…
The volume of activity of Ukrainian banks in January-February 2005 grew at a higher rate compared to the corresponding period last year. This is stated in a report by the press service of the National Bank of Ukraine on the preliminary results of banks' activity, the text of which is available to "proUA".
This year, late pension payments have become the number one problem for Lutsk pensioners, although the city department of the Pension Fund says there is no need to worry. The payment is delayed not because of a lack of money, but because of a change in the procedure for paying pensions in the regional center of Volyn.

The team of OJSC "Lutsk Bearing Plant" received a certificate of belonging to the "Golden Channel CRE" for the first time in its history, thereby confirming that the quality of products manufactured here meets the highest European and world standards, reports "Ukrainian Industry.
The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine, by its decision of March 4, 2005, granted permission to LLC "Trading House "Kontynium-Galychyna" for concentration in the form of leasing 7 gas stations owned by the Ukrainian-English joint venture "Western Oil Group". This was reported by the committee's press service.
National Deputy of Ukraine, head of the People's Party faction (formerly the People's Agrarian Party) in the Verkhovna Rada, member of the Committee on the Fuel and Energy Complex, Nuclear Policy and Nuclear Safety Ihor Yeremieiev, according to his own words, decided to devote his press conference for Volyn media to…
According to national space agency sources, in 2004 Ukrainian carrier rockets accounted for 13 percent of the international market of space launches.
In January, Ukraine's direct external debt decreased by 0.97%, or by 85.4 million dollars, amounting to 8,722.4 million dollars as of January 31. This was reported to "proUA" by the Ministry of Finance. \n \nAccording to the ministry, Ukraine's direct domestic debt increased by 4.5% in January, or by 934.