Yanukovych appoints head of State Reserve Agency of Ukraine

President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych has appointed Vyacheslav Koritko as the new chair of the State Reserve Agency of Ukraine.

A presidential order, No. 705/2013, making the appointment was posted on the president's Web site on Thursday.

Previously Koritko led a state-run enterprise, the National Research and Information Center for Monitoring International Commodity Markets.

The president also appointed Volodymyr Zhukov to the post of first deputy head of the State Reserve Agency, and Serhiy Varlamov as the deputy of the newly appointed head of the agency.