10 Mar 2015 20:58

Poroshenko signs 2015 budget changes into law

KYIV. March 10 (Interfax) - Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko has signed into law a number of important economic bills as part of a package of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), that include, in particular, changes to the 2015 national budget and pensions for working pensioners, his press office said on Tuesday.

"The president has signed a number of bills passed by Verkhovna Rada on March 2, whose passage is one of pre-conditions for granting Ukraine an extended IMF loan," the press office said.