WASHINGTON, April 14 – President Viktor Yanukovych and World Bank President Robert Zoellick have discussed the prospects for cooperation under two programs together worth about $850 million.

KIEV, April 14 - Ukraine and Russia will sign within a week a deal on lowering Russian natural gas prices by amending the 10-year gas agreement, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov told a government meeting on Wednesday.

KIEV, April 14 – Ukraine, after agreeing to give up its highly enriched uranium, will stop being a target for terrorists seeking to obtain the material, Energy and Fuel Minister Yuriy Boyko said Wednesday.

MOSCOW, April 14 - The highly enriched uranium (HEU) that Ukraine has decided to get rid of will be brought to Russia, said Alexei Lebedev, general director of the International Uranium Enrichment Center.

WASHINGTON, April 14 – Ukraine's experience in the sphere of nuclear technology is useful, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said at a meeting with President Viktor Yanukovych in Washington on Tuesday.

KIEV, April 14 – Ukraine cannot count on financing for the upgrade of its obsolete industrial sector and will have to go through a period of rapid structural reform, according to World Bank Country Director for Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova Martin Raiser.

KIEV, April 14 - Ukraine's SBU security service arrested a regional lawmaker and two companions for trying to sell radioactive plutonium for $10 million, The Associated Press reported Tuesday.

KIEV, April 14 – Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko held an emergency meeting of the government to approve anti-crisis measures on Tuesday shortly after Parliament rejected these measures, jeopardizing further lending from the International Monetary Fund.

KIEV, April 13 – National Bank of Ukraine Governor Volodymyr Stelmakh said the strengthening of the hryvnia on the cash forex market is down to lower demand and influenced by forex auctions to meet individuals' needs for currency.

KIEV, April 13 – The National Bank of Ukraine has put forward seven banks for recapitalization using budget funds, First Deputy NBU Governor Anatoliy Shapovalov told reporters on Monday.

"We've shortlisted seven banks that can claim [recapitalization]. Perhaps, there will be fewer," he said.