Iosif Vinskiy and Vadim Gurzhos

Transportation Minister Yosyp Vinskiy, left, and Head of Road Service Vadym Gurzhos, center, at a meeting devoted to infrastructure projects on road network development, in Kiev, Monday, December 1, 2008. Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko hopes that Ukraine will achieve efficiently new level of road building. According to her, today Ukraine, which is a transit state, takes one of the closing places in the world in development, financing and maintenance of roads.The Head of Government stressed that development of motor-car construction and implementation of the relevant projects is the biggest strategic prospect for the Government for the upcoming years as it enables us to struggle against the global financial crisis. Photo by Aleksandr Prokopenko / POOL / UNIAN