State budget revenues of Ukraine in the first quarter of 2005 exceeded the corresponding figures for 2004 by 62%. This was stated on Friday at a meeting with journalists by the Minister of Finance of Ukraine Viktor Pynzenyk, reports «LIHABiznesInform».

The Prosecutor General's Office of Georgia has published its final conclusion on the causes of death of former Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania. This was stated on Friday at a press conference in Tbilisi by Deputy Prosecutor General of Georgia Giorgi Janashia, reports RIA "Novosti".

Oil refineries intend to raise the preferential price of diesel fuel for supplying farmers by 16.7% from 2,400 to 2,800 hryvnias per ton. A representative of one of the Ukrainian oil refineries reported this to "Ukrainian News".

Deputies are people too, and nothing human is alien to them. This was confirmed by the Law of Ukraine "On Salo," which people's deputy Levko Lukyanenko submitted for consideration to the Verkhovna Rada. "Proceeding from the historical mission of Salo as a guide of humanism and public morality...

Minister of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine Oleksandr Baranivskyi states that on Wednesday a secret meeting of heads of oil refineries took place, at which they agreed to consolidate a fuel price increase.

On March 31, at around one in the morning, a fire broke out in the premises of the theological seminary of the Volyn Eparchy of the Kyiv Patriarchate, in the regional center of Volyn, reports the Central State Fire Safety Department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the region.

Gold and foreign currency reserves of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) from the beginning of 2005 and as of March 29 increased by 2 billion 379 million dollars - to 11 billion 904 million dollars (at the current exchange rate). This was reported in the NBU statistics and reporting department.

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has set the maximum size of Ukraine's external debt by the end of this year at 8,317.1 million dollars instead of the 9,285.5 million dollars envisaged by the previous version of the law on the state budget. This is stated in the amendments to the law "On the State Budget for 2005".

A three-day seminar on the organization of financial monitoring in the regions was held at the State Committee for Financial Monitoring of Ukraine, with the participation of the heads of regional departments of Volyn, Zaporizhzhia, Lviv, Kherson oblasts and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.

About 20 minibuses did not go on their routes today in the regional center of Volyn. At around ten in the morning they parked on the square opposite the Lutsk City Council.