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			<title>Europe gets less gas due to severe frost in Russia, Ukraine fuel minister says</title>
			<link>http://zik.ua/en/news/2012/02/03/331989</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[Amid Russia’s Gazprom accusations that Ukraine is to blame for dwindling gas supplies to Europe, Ukraine Fuel Minister Yury Boiko says due to a cold snap in Russia it s pumping less gas into the pipelines, The Segodnya quotes him as saying Feb. 3. 

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			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:36:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Fuel Minister Boiko about gas spat with Russia</title>
			<link>http://zik.ua/en/news/2012/01/13/328518</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[Russia is after ensuring excess transit capacity for itself, Ukraine Fuel Minister Boiko told Interfax-Ukraine Jan. 13. 

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			<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:46:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Ukraine did notify Russia about cuts in gas buys in due time. Kremlin denies receiving any notifications</title>
			<link>http://zik.ua/en/news/2012/01/12/328161</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[In the wake of Ukraine Fuel Minister Boiko statement Jan. 10 that Ukraine will buy less gas from Russia, Gazprom’s head Miller told Pres Medvedev Jan. 11 he had not been notified by Ukraine about the cuts in purchases. 

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			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>More Ukrainians could not afford to pay utility bills in November</title>
			<link>http://zik.ua/en/news/2011/12/30/326830</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[Payment arrears for utility bills have increased by 10% in November and reached $1.375 billion, the State Statistics service reported.  

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			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:18:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Business moving into shadows due to fiscal pressure</title>
			<link>http://zik.ua/en/news/2011/12/29/326456</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[According to The Ukrayina Moloda, the rift between the cabinet and presidential administration is growing, Radio Svoboda reports Dec. 29. 

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			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 10:12:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>New budget places burden on ordinary Ukrainians</title>
			<link>http://zik.ua/en/news/2011/12/23/325684</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[Ordinary Ukrainians, not the power and big capital, will pay for the country’s economic hardships, Ihor Burakovsky, Institute for Economic Research director, told DeutscheWelle Dec. 23.  

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			<category>Economy</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:23:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Sweden’s AP&amp;T company exploring West Ukrainian markets</title>
			<link>http://zik.ua/en/news/2011/12/21/325339</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[Last week, the representative of Sweden’s AP&amp;T company Mr. Tugrul Yarsuvat visited a number of Lviv industrial companies, ZIK reports. 

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			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:04:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Yanukovych bracing for worst-case scenario in gas talks with Russians</title>
			<link>http://zik.ua/en/news/2011/12/20/325096</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[Regions faction whip, Oleksandr Yefremov, told journalists Dec. 20 the administration is preparing for the worst-case scenario in the gas talks with Moscow when the gas price will amount to $416 per 1,000 cubic meters. 

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			<category>Economy</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:34:00 +0200</pubDate>
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Russia unwilling to share Ukraine’s pipelines with Europe
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			<link>http://zik.ua/en/news/2011/12/20/324983</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[Ukraine has agreed to form a consortium to run its gas pipelines, but Kyiv cannot accept Moscow’s terms, a source of The Komersant-Ukrayina in the fuel ministry says Dec. 20. 
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			<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:14:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Tihipko promises to play Cyprus soft</title>
			<link>http://zik.ua/en/news/2011/12/17/324719</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[To avoid any trouble with the EU, vice-premier Serhy Tihipko promises to play Cyprus soft because it is an EU member state, Tihipko says on his page in Facebook Dec. 17. 

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			<category>Economy</category>
			<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 13:27:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Details of bone-crushing Ukraine-Russia gas deal</title>
			<link>http://zik.ua/en/news/2011/12/10/323619</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[Ukraine and Russia are to create two 50-50 joint venture companies, first, based on Ukraine’s pumping and underground storage facilities and, second, on internal gas-distribution networks, Ukrayinska Pravda reports Dec. 10. 

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			<category>Economy</category>
			<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 13:39:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Ukraine can become self-sufficient for oil and gas</title>
			<link>http://zik.ua/en/news/2011/12/08/323163</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[There are enough oil/gas deposits and oil-refineries in Ukraine to make it self-sufficient for oil, gas and oil products, said head and CEO of TNK-BP Commerce Didje Kazimiro, addressing an international conference Inside Ukraine 2011 held Dec. 6 in London, ZN.UA reports Dec. 8. 

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			<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:53:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Ukraine signs contract with France to modernize Mi-24 choppers</title>
			<link>http://zik.ua/en/news/2011/12/05/322591</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[Ukrainian officials have signed a contract with France to modernize its Mi-24 helicopters, UNIAN reports Dec. 5. 
Ukraine expects to use its updated chopper in the country’s armed forces and in UN peace-keeping operations. 

  
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			<category>Economy</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:49:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Cabinet opts for 15% tax on off-shore transactions</title>
			<link>http://zik.ua/en/news/2011/11/22/320519</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[The cabinet proposed to levy a 15% tax on all transactions with off-shore entities, Komersant-Ukrayina says Nov. 22.  

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			<category>Economy</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:05:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Cabinet wants to make rich offset Pension Fund deficit</title>
			<link>http://zik.ua/en/news/2011/11/14/319243</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[As of Jan. 1, the cabinet proposes to impose a luxury tax to help offset the Pension Fund deficit. The tax, if Rada passes the bill, will be paid for 5 years on luxury items ranging from jewelry to yachts.  

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			<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:39:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>War and Chornobyl veterans threaten to make it hot for regime on Nov.7</title>
			<link>http://zik.ua/en/news/2011/11/05/317925</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[The second nation-wide rally organized by war and Chornobyl veterans is scheduled for Nov. 7 in Kyiv, Chornobyl veterans’ NGO Donetsk branch representative Mykola Senchyn told The Ostriv correspondent Nov. 4.  


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			<category>Economy</category>
			<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 16:56:00 +0200</pubDate>
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Azarov cabinet cold-shoulders IMF mission. West’s negotiators leave Ukraine before time</title>
			<link>http://zik.ua/en/news/2011/11/04/317879</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[The cabinet ministers had no time for even a single meeting with IMF mission that arrived for a 10-day working visit to Ukraine, ex-deputy finance minister Ihor Umansky said, addressing a round table in the Horshenin institute Nov. 4. 

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			<category>Economy</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 18:29:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Procurements by state becoming more corrupt – Accounting Chamber</title>
			<link>http://zik.ua/en/news/2011/11/04/317870</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[Due to cabinet’s silent approval, procurements by the state are becoming more and more corrupt, says the report prepared by Rada’s Accounting Chamber, DT.UA reports Nov. 4.  

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			<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:57:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Egypt returns to Ukraine status of priority grain supplier</title>
			<link>http://zik.ua/en/news/2011/10/25/315902</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[Egypt has put Ukraine back on its list of priority suppliers of grain, president of the Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation Leonid Kozachenko said, Komersant-Ukrayina reported Oct. 25. 

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			<category>Economy</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:00:00 +0300</pubDate>
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			<title>British and US investors in Ukraine decry illegal property grabs</title>
			<link>http://zik.ua/en/news/2011/10/15/314361</link>
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			<description><![CDATA[The British and US investors operating in Ukraine have submitted to EU officials a list of 50 cases of illegal property seizures during the 2-year rule by Yanukovych, LigaBiznesInform reported Oct. 14.  


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			<category>Economy</category>
			<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 18:24:00 +0300</pubDate>
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