The third trading day of the week on the oil market was marked by a sharp increase in oil prices. Thus, on December 15, oil prices on average rose by 6.7% and reached their highest level since the beginning of the month.

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has appointed Volodymyr Stelmakh as the new head of the National Bank of Ukraine. 428 people's deputies voted for the corresponding resolution, reports a proUA correspondent.

The issue of sending an additional over 1000 observers from Poland to monitor the course of the presidential elections in Ukraine was discussed during a working meeting in Lviv between representatives of the Ukrainian People's Party and the Polish party "Law and Justice".

The greatest success of the orange revolution is the establishment of dialogue in society, believes People's Deputy of Ukraine Volodymyr Bondar. In his opinion, society did not have a common language, everyone was in a narrow environment, this applied to both government representatives and law enforcement structures.

In November 2004, when two rounds of elections took place and the Orange Revolution began, the size of the Ukrainian internet audience increased by 39.6% compared to October.

The head of the Volyn headquarters of Viktor Yushchenko, People's Deputy of Ukraine Volodymyr Bondar, during a press conference stated that he does not possess information that Volyn residents are refusing to work in precinct election commissions from the candidate for the position of President Viktor Yanukovych due…

The Verkhovna Rada has registered the draft Law "On the State Budget of Ukraine for 2005," reports UNIAN.

Today at an operational meeting in the Lutsk city executive committee, the city mayor Anton Kryvytskyi once again emphasized the problem of thefts of sewer manhole covers on the streets and accused the city department of the UMVS of inaction.

People's deputies Mykhailo Poplavskyi and Adam Chykal have left the "Trudova Ukraina" faction.