Tymoshenko gave her assessment of the Ukrainian metallurgical and chemical industries at a press conference.

Iryna Vannykova, the press secretary for the president, announced this at a news briefing.

The relevant decision was taken by the administrative council of the fund on March 20.

In February, salt extracting enterprises increased salt production by 26.5% or 67,551 tons to 322,220 tons, compared to January, a source in the Cabinet of Ministers has informed Ukrainian News.

Pension Fund Chairman Oleksii Zarudnyi announced this at a news briefing.

«Implementation of the bilateral approach not taking in account the interests of the supplying countries will entail risks in the gas trading on the basis of the long-term contracts on gas delivery and transit,» the report said.

A representative of the Vinnytsia regional division of the Antimonopoly Committee announced this to Ukrainian News.

«The authority of convening general shareholders’ meeting has moved to the temporary administrator in the Nadra commercial bank joint stock company. Thus, the shareholders’ meeting scheduled for March 27, 2009 has been cancelled,» the statements said.

The prime minister said that the work with the IMF is continued and expressed her hope for the successful cooperation with the fund.

Fifty-seven commercial banks bought USD 68.573 million and fifteen banks bought EUR 1.01 million from the National Bank of Ukraine at a foreign-currency auction on March 13, with the aim of reselling the foreign currency to their private clients to enable them to repay their foreign-currency loans.

Ukraine and Russia will discuss aviation cooperation on March 27-29, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has announced at a meeting with workers of the Kyiv aviation plant Aviant.

All banks that took part in the auction purchased US dollars at the exchange rate of 7.80 UAH/USD, euros at 9.97 UAH/EUR.

The hryvnia rate rose by 10 kopecks to 8.10 UAH/USD on the interbank currency market on Friday after a rise on Thursday.

The press service of AMCU announced this to Ukrainian News.

According to the association, on March 12, supervisory board members of the union and new leadership of the directorate for the bank regulation and supervision of the NBU held the meeting.

According to the procedure, budget funds are channeled to construction of housing on land plots owned by the mentioned departments, to reconstruction of existing building into residences, procurement of apartments at the secondary market on share conditions.

The association considers that the introduction of the monitors with such extended authorities into the banks strengthens the distrust in the banking system.

The money supply has decreased by 8.7% or UAH 44.973 billion since the beginning of 2009.

This reads a statement of the State Statistics Committee.

The bank stockholders will consider this issue at the meeting on March 13.

The information department of Gazprom made the confirmation in a statement.

"We have transferred 80% of the required amount for February, and we have the appropriate transfer conformation," a press-service officer said.

Ukrainian News learned this from a statement by the National Bank.