KIEV, May 14 – In a major change of his earlier rhetoric, opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych said Thursday that Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko must be give time to run the government through the next presidential election.

KIEV, May 14 - President Viktor Yushchenko on Wednesday called on the government to suspend its controversial decision canceling an offshore oil exploration and production license for U.S. oil company Vanco Energy.

KIEV, May 14 – Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, facing a shortfall in budget revenue this year, plans to resort to international borrowing to raise cash needed to fund her populist Soviet-era depositor bailout campaign.

WARSAW, May 14 - Polish President Lech Kaczynski said crude oil deliveries from the Caspian Sea via an oil pipeline across Ukraine to Polish oil refinery in Gdansk will start in 2012.

KIEV, May 14 ??“ The Constitutional Court on Monday opened deliberations over legality of President Viktor Yushchenko??™s second decree dissolving Parliament amid signs that opposition and pro-government parties had been deadlocked in political talks.

WARSAW, May 12 ??“ President Viktor Yushchenko, during his visit to Poland on Friday, pressed for construction of an oil pipeline that would help both countries reduce dependence on Russian crude oil supplies.

KIEV, May 13 ??“ President Viktor Yushchenko said Friday Ukraine was unlikely to have major losses after quitting the Commonwealth of Independent States, a Russia-led regional alliance created after the collapse of the former Soviet Union.

KIEV, May 13 ??“ Prime Minister Yuriy Yekhanurov indicated Friday that he will take a seat in Parliament later this month following the March 26 general election in which his party had a disappointing performance.

KIEV, May 12 - The Ukrainian capital's new mayor was taken aback when an estimated 2,000 people turned up at his office Saturday after he announced that he would be available to personally hear complaints, The Associated Press reported.

KIEV, May 12 - Prime Minister Yuriy Yekhanurov on Monday will resume consultations within the government to ensure Ukraine has steady supplies of natural gas in the second half of the year, an official said.