KIEV, Oct. 11 – Parliament plans to permit the payment of the debt of the national budget to local budgets in the difference in tariffs on heat, water supply and sewage accumulated in 2013 using promissory notes.

KIEV, Oct. 11 – Parliament has permitted the granting of government guarantees for liabilities of national joint-stock company Naftogaz Ukrayiny to banks taken in 2013.

BRUSSELS, Oct. 13 – The prosecution of Ukraine's former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko is politically motivated and her trial and conviction did not respect international standards, which is unacceptable for the country that proclaims its commitment to European values, EU High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy Catherine Ashton told the European Parliament in Brussels on Wednesday.

KIEV, Oct. 13 – Ukraine’s authorities will investigate whether a $405 million debt owed by former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s company to the Russian government had played a role in her signing a controversial natural gas contract in January 2009.

MOSCOW, Oct. 11 - Former Yukos head Mikhail Khodorkovsky's defense attorney believes there is similarity between his client's trial and that of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in that both were politically motivated.

MOSCOW, Oct. 11 - Gazprom chief Alexei Miller and Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Minister Yuriy Boyko expressed satisfaction with how the gas negotiations are proceeding during a Tuesday meeting in Moscow.

KIEV, Oct. 11 – A package of bilateral documents on cooperation in various spheres was signed between Ukraine and Slovenia in Kiev on Tuesday.

The press service of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych reported that the Ukrainian president and Slovenian President Danilo Turk attended a ceremony for signing an intergovernmental cooperation agreement on the fight against crime, and a memorandum of mutual understanding in the sphere of tourism between the Ukrainian Infrastructure Ministry and the Economy Ministry of Slovenia.

TALLINN, Oct. 12 - Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves has cancelled his scheduled Tuesday meeting with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kostiantyn Hryschenko who is visiting Tallinn.

CHERNIHIV, Oct. 12 – Cooperation between Ukraine and Belarus in pumping oil via the Odessa-Brody pipeline does not mean Ukraine has given up its plans to cooperate with Poland on that project, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said.

KIEV, Oct. 13 - President Viktor Yanukovych dismissed two deputy prime ministers from their posts on Wednesday in line with the recent changes to Ukraine's constitution.