BRUSSELS, Sept. 14 - European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has welcomed the progress made in relations between Kiev and Moscow.

KIEV, Sept. 14 - Kazakhstan has agreed to increase supplies of its crude oil to the European Union via Ukrainian oil pipelines to about 8 million metric tons per year, President Viktor Yanukovych said Tuesday.

KIEV, Sept. 14 – Yuriy Kravchenko, a former interior minister dead since March 2005, ordered the murder of journalist Heorhiy Gongadze in September 2000, the Prosecutor General’s Office said Tuesday.

KIEV, Sept. 14 - Naftogaz Ukrayiny announced Monday it had started talks with creditors seeking to restructure its international debts, including a $500 million eurobond that falls due on Sept. 30.

KIEV, Sept. 14 - President Viktor Yushchenko left for Turkmenistan on Monday for two-day talks seeking to step up cooperation between the two countries in the natural gas sector, the presidential press service reported Thursday.

KIEV, Sept. 14 – President Viktor Yushchenko on Monday appealed to the Constitutional Court to nullify controversial legislation that was recently approved to govern the next presidential election, setting stage for a battle with two main presidential candidates.

KIEV, Sept. 12 – Russia is trying to destabilize political situation in Ukraine through the support of unspecified political groups and parties seeking to prevent the country’s accession to NATO, Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry charged on Friday.

KIEV, Sept. 11 – President Viktor Yushchenko wants the National Academy of Sciences to establish the causes of the major floods in the west of Ukraine late in July and draft proposals to avoid similar disasters in future.

KIEV, Sept. 13 - The Ukrainian government plans to build a stabilization fund of $600 million into next year's budget in case gas prices soar on the world market, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych told foreign journalists ahead of his visit to Brussels.

KIEV, Sept. 14 ??“ The government will allocate UAH3 billion from the draft 2007 state budget to stimulate housing construction in Ukraine, First Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Mykola Azarov said Wednesday.