KIEV, Nov. 12 - Ukraine's Finance Ministry announced on Thursday it had completed a debt restructuring of around $15 billion with creditors and said it remained open to finding a debt solution on a $3 billion eurobond with Russia, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Nov. 12 - Ukraine's parliament Thursday finally banned discrimination against gays in the workplace during a heated session on legislation that could open the door to visa-free travel to much of the EU in 2016, AFP reported.

KIEV, Nov. 9 – President Viktor Yanukovych has vetoed the law on the cancellation of the obligatory state registration of personal databases of hired employers by business entities.

KIEV, Nov. 9 – Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has called on the leaders of the political parties in the new Parliament to start talks on forming a coalition.

"I'm asking the leaders of the political parties represented in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine to start holding talks about forming a grand coalition," reads the president's official application posted on the Website of the Cabinet of Ministers on Friday.

KIEV, Nov. 12 – U.S. President Barack Obama, who just won reelection for a second term in office, asked about the political situation in Ukraine in a phone conversation with Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski, the Polish presidency announced Monday.

KIEV, Nov. 12 – Ukraine’s three opposition groups on Monday vowed to continue organized protests until the authorities investigate alleged election manipulation that they say resulted in stolen victories for candidates in a number of constituencies.

KIEV, Nov. 9 – The National Bank of Ukraine is continuing to work on a memorandum of economic and financial policies as part of its cooperation with the International Monetary Fund, according to Serhiy Kruhlyk, the director of the NBU department for foreign economic liaison.

KIEV, Nov. 10 – A total of 6-7 million doses of vaccine against À/H1N1 flu are needed to vaccinate people in high-risk groups in Ukraine, First Deputy Health Ministry Vasyl Lazoryshynets said at a briefing in Kiev.

KIEV, Nov. 10 - Ukraine could face a second, longer wave of the epidemic of A/H1N1 flu, according to Jukka Pukkila, head of the WHO international mission.

"We really are facing the virus of A/H1N1 flu… We have overcome the peak of the wave [of the epidemic in Ukraine]…

KIEV, Nov. 10 - Opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych, the frontrunner in opinion polls ahead of the next presidential election, accused Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko of “blackmailing” the European Union with warnings over natural gas supply problems.