Martin Raiser and Bogdan Danilishyn

Director of the World Bank for Ukraine, Bilorus and Moldova Martin Raiser , left, and Ukraine's Minister for Economics Bohdan Danylyshyn at a ceremony of an agreement signing in Kyiv, December 22, 2008. Bohdan Danylyshyn and Martin Raiser signed an agreement on lending 500 million USD to Ukraine by the World Bank. According to Martin Raiser, the money is given for the country's development and the budget maintenance. He emphasised that Ukraine will get the money until the end of this year for funding of the 2008 Budget needs. Photo by Aleksandr Prokopenko / POOL / UNIAN