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On January 24 the USA Senate introduced the bill on abolition of Jackson-Vanik amendment.
The international rating agency Rating and Investment Information, Inc (Japan) on January 26 raised Ukraine's long-term foreign currency loan rating from B+ to BB-.
Yushchenko will stay in Davos for two days. On Friday he will take part in the forum's plenary session, during which the Ukrainian leader will address the participants with a special message.
At today's session of the Rivne Regional Council, the issue of stripping Hero of Ukraine, Volyn governor Anatoliy Frantsuz, and former high-ranking ministry official Elbrus Abdullayev of their deputy powers for ignoring regional council sessions was raised.
This morning, the political bureau of the European People's Party, which is holding a meeting in Brussels, unanimously decided to admit the "Our Ukraine" bloc to the party as an observer.
The real estate market has frozen in the new year. The rules for taxing the purchase and sale of apartments, houses, and dachas have changed. On January 1, certain provisions of the law "On Personal Income Tax" came into force.
The average sale price of Ukrainian oil at the auction of the Ukrainian Interbank Currency Exchange on Wednesday amounted to 1,359.72 UAH per tonne, which is 19%, or 319.63 UAH, more compared to the previous auction held on August 27, 2004.
The topic of discussion at the press club that took place today at the Lutsk city hall was the urgent problem of passenger transportation by minibus.
Representatives of the Socialist Party of Ukraine may lay claim in the new government to the positions of ministers of fuel and energy, finance, internal affairs, as well as transport and communications, believes People's Deputy and secretary of the SPU political council Mykhailo Melnychuk, UNIAN reported.
Volyn is the only region in Ukraine that has five winners of the all-Ukrainian "Teacher of the Year" competition in its arsenal.