Head of the Presidential Secretariat Viktor Baloha has said Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is once again trying to settle the country's energy issues at her own discretion. He was commenting on a written instruction from the premier to Ukrtransnafta Board Chairman Ihor Kyriushyn and his deputies, banning them from signing documents and participating in talks and meetings on oil pumping through Odesa-Brody pipeline until the government passes a respective decision, the presidential press service reported on Thursday. 

Due to a rich grain harvest in 2008, Ukraine could export 15 million tonnes of grain and earn $4 billion on this, a high-ranking official from the Ukrainian presidential secretariat said. Ukraine plans to harvest 40 million tonnes of grain this year. Considering that its reserves amount to another 5.5 million tonnes, it can put a total of about 46 million tonnes into trade turnover, Deputy Presidential Secretariat Chief Andriy Honcharuk said at a news briefing in Kyiv on Wednesday. 

 

Kyiv, July 15 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Russia should follow the procedure set by Ukrainian law if it wants to hold Russian Navy Day in Sevastopol on July 27, Head of the Foreign Ministry's press service Vasyl Kyrylych told the press at a briefing on Tuesday. According to him, there were reports last week that Russia intended to celebrate Russian Navy Day in Sevastopol.