Ukraine: signing of the draft law

Ukrainian Grain Association appeals to the members of the Parliament to decline the draft law #8053* due to its discordance with the national legislation of Ukraine, and also to the standards of the International Law. The above stated law project limits the range of the business entities, which are allowed to export the commodities by the direct agricultural producers within the volumes of own production, and the Government Agent for export provision of the objects of the state price regulation.

Thus, the domestic and foreign wholesale grain enterprises will be removed from the market of the export operations.

Ukrainian Grain Association states it is not allowed to found the monopolist that will have the exceptional right to export the objects of the state price regulation.

Ukraine x-president charged over murder

Ukraine's former president Leonid Kuchma has been charged in connection with the murder of the online journalist Georgy Gongadze, whose brutal slaying in 2000 triggered a national scandal.The prosecutor general's office confirmed on Thursday that Kuchma had been indicted, alleging that he had been responsible for "abuse of power leading to the death of the journalist Georgy Gongadze". But it stopped short of saying that the ex-president, who was in office from 1994 to 2005, had personally ordered the hit on Gongadze.Prosecutors opened a criminal case against Kuchma on Tuesday. Speaking to reporters in Kyiv the following day, he said that he felt "calm", adding that he was "ready to go through all the torments of hell so everybody knows what I've done and what I haven't done