KIEV, Oct. 28 – Part of the resources provided by the International Monetary Fund as a part of its Stand-By Arrangement with Ukraine have been transferred to the state budget to ensure the timely payment of wages and pensions, the IMF said in a statement issued on Tuesday.

KIEV, Oct. 28 – Opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych leads Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in popularity three months before the next presidential election, according to the latest survey released on Wednesday.

KIEV, Oct. 28 – President Viktor Yushchenko indicated Wednesday he will sign a controversial bill that dramatically increases social spending less than three months before the next presidential election.

KIEV, Oct. 28 - Russia and Ukraine are making progress in natural gas talks and will probably sign an agreement on 2009 supplies before the end of November, a source in the Ukrainian government said Tuesday.

KIEV, Oct. 28 – Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, along with the finance minister and the governor of the National Bank of Ukraine, are expected to join a meeting in Parliament Wednesday to speed up the approval of an economic rescue package.

KIEV, Oct. 28 – The National Bank of Ukraine on Tuesday let the hryvnia slide to 5.50 to the U.S. dollar in a move that may open the way for aggressive depreciation of the local currency.

KIEV, Oct. 28 – Russia has been seeking to hike by almost 50% prices of natural gas to be supplied to Ukraine next year, but Kiev has rejected the dramatic hike as politically motivated.

KIEV, Oct. 25 – The reconstruction of Donetsk international airport will be completed in 2010, the State Aviation Administration forecasts.

The total budget of the project is UAH625.61 million.

NEW YORK, Sept 27 - A majority of U.S. House Republicans rejected a series of efforts to cut back on funding for Ukraine on Wednesday, voting down a trio of amendments to a Pentagon appropriations bill that would have curtailed Washington’s financial support for Kyiv.

KYIV, Sept 28 – Ukraine needs $43 billion in external financing from the state budget in 2024; attracting it will be more difficult than this year; the Ministry of Finance is doing everything possible to guarantee its receipt, Minister Serhiy Marchenko said on the national telethon on Thursday.