The state joint-stock company "Khlib Ukrainy" has stopped export grain shipments. A company representative explained this decision by the political instability in the country, reports "Ukrainian News.

On Thursday, December 9, the Pechersk Court of Kyiv reinstated Sviatoslav Piskun as Prosecutor General of Ukraine. \n \n The court ruled illegal the Presidential Decree dismissing Piskun from the post of Prosecutor General in the autumn of 2003.

Before this, Kuchma agreed to "Our Ukraine's" conditions and accepted the resignation of Prosecutor General Hennadii Vasyliev. And immediately after that, the deputies shamefully expelled Serhii Kivalov and Valerii Bondyk from the Central Election Commission.

One miner was killed and 31 injured as a result of an explosion at the "Pivdennodonbaska" No. 1 mine in the city of Vuhledar in Donetsk Oblast. \n \nThe explosion occurred the day before at 21:13 in longwall No. 53-bis at the 480-meter horizon. At the time of the incident, 32 miners were in the mine.

For Kyiv's "Dynamo," the current Champions League campaign ended with a crushing 3:0 defeat in Leverkusen, where Sabo's charges were beaten by the German "Bayer.

People's Deputy of Ukraine, leader of the BYuT faction in the Verkhovna Rada Yulia Tymoshenko announced her intention to challenge in the Constitutional Court today's decision of the parliament to amend the Constitution of Ukraine with the aim of carrying out political reform in the country.

The Verkhovna Rada approved a new composition of the Central Election Commission on Wednesday.

The Verkhovna Rada amended the Constitution, approved the draft amendments to the constitution on local self-government, and amended the law on presidential elections. \n \n402 people's deputies voted for the corresponding decision, including 78 deputies from "Our Ukraine" and 1 deputy from the BYuT.

Yesterday at the oil trading sessions in London and New York, world oil prices resumed the decline that began last week. Thus, on the International Petroleum Exchange (IPE) in London, the quotes for January futures for the delivery of Brent crude oil plunged by $1.38 cents at once (to $38.27 per barrel).

Exploring the sexual capabilities of men and women, scientists have proven that the process of obtaining unlimited sexual satisfaction significantly prolongs human life and noticeably renews the body, writes the newspaper "Zhyttya." Rinad Minvaleyev, vice-rector of the St.