The FINANCIAL -- President Victor Yushchenko met with Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and the Verkhovna Rada Speaker Arseniy Yatsenyuk. Secretariat Chief of Staff Viktor Baloha was also present at the meeting, according to the President`s press-office.

The FINANCIAL -- According to an UNIAN, Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko will pay a visit to the Russian Federation late in February.

The FINANCIAL -- Two thousand HGVs (TIR trucks) have formed a forty-five kilometre queue in Dorohusk, eastern Poland, according to Polskie Radio.

The FINANCIAL -- According to an UNIAN, president of Ukraine Victor Yushchenko and President of Russian federation Vladimir Putin agreed to meet on 12 February of the current year, and fixed this date for the visit of the Ukrainian President to Russia.

The FINANCIAL -- According to an UNIAN, three disinfection points were opened on the border of the Kherson Oblast and the Crimea, due to the bird flue outbreak in the autonomous republic.