Structures associated with the Verkhovna Rada's Administration Department received more than 420 million hryvnias from Ukraine's budget as VAT reimbursement for oil exports. This was stated by Svitlana Zvarych, vice-president of the company "Oil Transit" and wife of Justice Minister Roman Zvarych, reports "Trybuna".

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.

On March 16, 2005, a round table on the topic "Control over the provision of state aid to business entities as a component of state competition policy" will be held at the premises of the National Bank of Ukraine.

How cars are "smuggled in" across the border

According to the boxers' official website, Volodymyr Klitschko will meet 29-year-old Belarusian Serhiy Liakhovich, who lives in the USA, on April 23 in Dortmund, while Vitali Klitschko will fight 32-year-old Hasim Rahman on April 30 in New York.

The American business magazine "Forbes" has published its annual list of billionaires.

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…

Police officers at the bus station in Lutsk intercepted a batch of counterfeit excise stamps, reports "Volyn". \n \n \n \nLaw enforcement officers were waiting for the arrival of a bus from Radekhiv, in the Lviv region, to the regional center.

According to the prosecutor of the Volyn region, Andriy Hil, the regional prosecutor's office has completed a number of criminal cases related to violations of election legislation during the second round of the Ukrainian Presidential elections.