PRESS-DIGEST - Ukraine - Dec 16
KIEV, Dec 16 (Reuters) - The following are the leading stories in Ukrainian newspapers on Tuesday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
HOLOS UKRAINY
- New parliamentary chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn urges the president and government to cooperate with the assembly.
- Local authorities in eastern Donetsk region say 200,000 people will lose their jobs in 2009.
URYADOVIY KURIER
- The government discusses new macroeconomic indicators for the 2009 budget.
- The foreign ministry says negotiations on freeing hostages aboard the vessel Faina, held by pirates off east Africa, have been completed.
KOMMERSANT Ukraina
- The bloc of Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and President Viktor Yushchenko's Our Ukraine party have agreed on the text of an agreement to formally underpin a new, expanded coalition.
- Prime Minister Tymoshenko believes parliament should examine the "old" 2009 Draft budget with changes submitted by the budget committee.
- Kiev consumers face new threats of disrupted heat supplies.
DELO
- The hryvnia has slipped below 8.0 to the dollar on Ukraine's interbank currency market.
- Russian gas giant Gazprom is ready to make price concessions to Ukraine in exchange for a larger share of supplies to the domestic market -- 10 billion cubic metres against 7.5 billion now.
EKONOMICHESKIYE IZVESTIYA
- Parliament is ready to give final approval to a working plan for the entire session.
- Russia may appoint a new ambassador to Ukraine to replace former Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin. ($=7.65 hryvnias)
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