German Chancellor Angela Merkel intends to abandon the post of chairman of the Christian Democratic Union, but will remain federal chancellor until the next elections to the Bundestag in 2021. Merkel has been the chairman of the Christian Democratic Union for 18 years.. *** The process of monetization of subsidies, which will be held in Ukraine for the first time, will begin next year.. The total amount of targeted assistance provided by the draft state budget for 2019 is 55 billion UAH. *** The Armed Forces of Ukraine received the first seven BTR-4s made from the new Ukrainian bronestali at the Morozov Kharkiv Design Bureau. There are about 40 such cases in production.. *** Government compensates utility expenses for families who did not have time to issue a subsidy. This will be done even if the documents are filed in November or December.. *** In September, the average nominal wage in Ukraine amounted to UAH 9402. September indicator is 2.4 times higher than the minimum indicator and is 12.9% more than in September 2017.

*** IBM announced the purchase of Red Hat, the largest distributor of the Linux operating system and developer of cloud software.. The deal amounted to approximately 34 billion dollars. *** Lion Air passenger flight from Jakarta to Pangkal Penang fell into the sea. It was the new Boeing 737 MAX 8. On board were 189 people, they all died.. *** Legendary American rock band KISS announced on its website a concert on June 16 in Kiev as part of their farewell tour "End Of The Road". The concert is to be held at the NSC "Olympic".