KIEV, Feb. 12 - Acting Prime Minister Serhiy Arbuzov has said that the measures taken by the central bank to stabilize the situation on the foreign exchange market have been timely and effective.

KIEV, Feb. 12 - A judge who sentenced several antigovernment protesters to house arrest died of gunshot wounds on Wednesday, as Ukraine enters its third month of political crisis amid mounting violence.

BRUSSELS, Feb. 11 – The European Energy Community has denied claims by the Ukrainian leadership that it was invited to participate in the settlement of a dispute with Russia's gas company Gazprom over a bill of $7 billion to Naftogaz Ukrayiny for the breach of the 2009 gas supply contract.

KIEV, Feb. 12 - The IMF, leaving Ukraine with a promise it would return to talks on a $15 billion loan, warned Kiev it faced a second year of near-zero growth and was vulnerable to further shocks due to its high current account deficit, Reuters reported Tuesday.

KIEV, Feb. 12 – Ukraine’s political crisis appeared set to deepen after opposition groups on Tuesday voiced vehement support for two independent lawmakers recently unseated by a controversial court ruling.

KIEV, Feb. 10 - Ukrainian nuclear scientists and specialists are cooperating with Iranian colleagues at the Bushehr nuclear power plant, Iranian Ambassador to Kiev Akbar Ghasemi Ali Abadi said in an interview in the newspaper Segodnya.

FRANKFURT, Feb 12 - European Union Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger said there was no reason for concern that persistently cold weather across Europe could cause a shortage of gas in the region.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 – The International Monetary Fund is likely to suspend loan payments to Ukraine, a move that would further push the government toward Moscow for aid and exacerbate the feud between the top leaders in Kiev, the website of The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.

KIEV, Feb. 11 – Kievenergo owes Gaz Ukrayiny more than UAH1 billion for gas supplied to the company in 2008-2009, Naftogaz Ukrainy reported on Tuesday.

KIEV, Feb. 11 - All programs at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant will be 100% financed, according to Emergencies Minister Volodymyr Shandra.

"I'd like to assure you that all the matters concerned with the Chernobyl power plant and the exclusion zone are under control, there are no emissions and no threat to the environment… regular work is going on as to the provision of radiation safety at the plant, and all dangerous objects are financed in full," Shandra said at a press conference on Wednesday.