KIEV, April 11 – Ukraine’s national oil and gas company, Naftogaz Ukrayiny, signed a contract with RosUkrEnergo to supply about 50 billion cubic meters of natural gas to Ukraine, a top official at President Viktor Yushchenko’s office said Friday.

KIEV, April 12 – Ukraine and Georgia reacted strongly over the weekend to Russian threats of possible military action aimed at preventing the two former Soviet republics from joining NATO.

KIEV, April 13 - Ukraine's deficit in trade with goods widened to about $1 billion in the first two months of the year, raising concerns the hryvnia may decline amid downward pressure persisting since early January.

KIEV, April 13 ??“ Russia may seek to further increase natural gas prices it charges Ukraine starting in July as world energy prices continue to grow, a senior official at Gazprom said Thursday.

KIEV, April 13 ??“ Three pro-Western groups, backed by President Viktor Yushchenko, signed an accord on Thursday opening way for creation of a majority coalition that will be able to form the next government in Ukraine.

KIEV, April 12 ??“ Ukraine has proposed to Russia, Kazakhstan, and Belarus, the countries currently forming the Common Economic Space together with Ukraine, to focus on the creation of a free-trade zone within the CES and to cancel all non-tariff restrictions to trade by July 1, and all tariff restrictions by Jan. 1, 2006.

KIEV, April 12 ??“ Dynamo Kyiv football club President Ihor Surkis spent four hours at Kiev's organized crime department to explain the transfer of money to the Ukraina fund, Interfax-Ukraine learned from Interior Minister's press secretary Inna Kysil.

KIEV, April 12 ??“ ZAZ, Ukraine??™s largest automaker, warned Tuesday it may suspend operation soon unless the government agrees to compensate the company offsetting a recent elimination of tax breaks.

KIEV, April 12 ??“ A powerful Ukrainian business group, uniting steel and mining companies, has Tuesday unexpectedly called off its scheduled meeting that had been planned to attack the government of Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

WARSAW, April 12 ??“ President Viktor Yushchenko said Tuesday Ukraine will take measures to seal off its border with Moldova??™s breakaway republic of TransDnistria to clamp down on alleged drug trafficking and illegal arms exports.