OTTAWA, Nov. 28 – Ukraine and Canada will resume suspended negotiations on the creation of a free trade zone between the two countries, the speaker of Ukraine's parliament announced.

KIEV, Nov. 28 - The European Union told Ukraine it was risking its economic future by rejecting a free-trade deal in favor of closer ties with Russia, hours before a likely frosty encounter on Thursday evening between EU leaders and President Viktor Yanukovych, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Nov. 26 – A ceremony to mark the signing of a number of agreements with the participation of President Viktor Yanukovych and President of the United Arab Emirates Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan was held in Abu Dhabi on Monday.

KIEV, Nov. 28 – Ukraine’s newly elected lawmakers will hold their first session on December 12, but President Viktor Yanukovych’s Regions Party has so far failed to create a coalition that would control the majority of seats in Parliament.

KIEV, Nov. 28 – The Ukraine-EU summit, which is scheduled for December 19 in Kiev, will be held in any case, the head of the Ukrainian delegation at the talks with the EU on the association agreement, Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin, said.

KIEV, Nov. 28 – The government is planning to scale down its estimate of Ukraine's GPD growth for 2012 by the time of the second reading of the bill on the national budget, First Deputy Finance Minister of Ukraine, Anatoliy Miarkovsky said.

KIEV, Nov. 28 - The men who gunned down Ukrainian parliamentarian Yevhen Scherban in 1996 received the payment for this contract killing from firms controlled at the time by then-Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko and then-head of United Energy System of Ukraine (UESU) Yulia Tymoshenko, First Deputy Prosecutor General Renat Kuzmin said.

KIEV, Nov. 28 - Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski on Monday urged Ukraine to resolve the imprisonment of former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, saying the country’s bid to join the European Union hinges on it.

KIEV, Nov. 28 – Ukrainian opposition parties on Monday demanded an immediate investigation into a crackdown on a street protest in Donetsk as a result of which one person died.

KIEV, Nov. 28 – President Viktor Yanukovych, after a meeting with protesting small business owners on Saturday, said there was a “high probability” that he will veto the controversial tax legislation that had triggered the protest.