KIEV, Sept. 8 – Kiev's Podilsky District Court has ordered the central unified management of the Pension Fund of Ukraine in Kiev to resolve the issue of pension payment resumption to former Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, Deputy Prime Minister Pavlo Rozenko said.

KIEV, Sept. 9 - Only 4% of Ukrainians are ready to open their own business without fear of any difficulties and obstacles, while 25.7% do not want to do business because it is not possible with the current level of corruption in Ukraine, according to a survey conducted by the Socis center for social and marketing research under the order of 1+1 TV Channel.

LONDON, Sept. 9 - The expected release of an IMF loan tranche will allow Ukraine to continue liberalizing its foreign exchange regime, including dividend repatriation by investors, according to the chief economic adviser to the country's prime minister.

KIEV, Sept. 8 – Deputy Prosecutor General and head of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine (SAP) Nazar Kholodnytsky has instructed the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) to analyze information about acquisition of an apartment by MP Serhiy Leschenko (Petro Poroshenko Bloc) and reports on the results by September 16.

KIEV, Sept. 8 - The Ukrainian president has accepted credentials from ambassadors of several countries.

The credentials were presented by ambassador of Germany to Ukraine Ernst Reichel, Ambassador of Estonia to Ukraine Gert Antsu, Ambassador of the European Union to Ukraine Hugues Mingarelli, Ambassador of Italy to Ukraine David La Cecilia, Ambassador of Togo to Ukraine Kwami Christophe Dikenou, Ambassador of Mongolia to Ukraine Nemekh Bataa and Ambassador of Jamaica to Ukraine Margaret Jobson.

KIEV, Sept. 10 - The construction of the second phase of the Nord Stream gas pipeline would deprive Ukraine of the opportunity to pump 140 billion cubic meters of Russian natural gas to the European Union and to make $2 billion on this annually, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said at a joint press conference with Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico in Bratislava on Thursday.

KIEV, Sept. 10 – Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has spoken out against the construction of the Nord Stream pipeline and said he will express his position on the issue at the European Council.

KIEV, Sept. 11 - Monetary base in Ukraine in August decreased by 1.1%, to UAH 328.8 billion, while money supply decreased by 2.1%, to UAH 948.2 billion, the National Bank of Ukraine said on its website.

KIEV, Sept. 14 - Mikheil Saakashvili, the head of the Odessa region's state administration, said Ukraine is run by a shadow government.

"Yes, we essentially have a shadow government, a parallel government […] The people who run the business are really owners of this joint stock company," Saakashvili said at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Yalta European Strategy in Kiev on Saturday.

BRUSSELS, Sept. 14 - The European Union has extended by six months a visa ban and asset freeze targeting several close associates of Russian President Vladimir Putin and others involved in Russia's annexation of Crimea and other territorial disputes in Ukraine.