KIEV, Feb. 12 – The use of all alternative energy sources will help Ukraine save up to 10 billion cubic meters of natural gas, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said.

"If we use the whole potential of renewable [energy] resources, we will then be able to replace up to 10 billion cubic meters of gas a year," she said at a council on the development of alternative energy sources in Kiev on Thursday.

KIEV, Feb. 12 - Ukraine is expected in April to raise its first cash from selling carbon dioxide emission allowances internationally under the Kyoto Protocol, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said Thursday.

KIEV, Feb. 12 – Finance Minister Viktor Pynzenyk, who recently warned the government that the economy was in terrible shape and the budget deficit exploding, resigned on Thursday, citing disagreements with Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

KIEV, Feb. 12 – The cabinet has proposed to cancel a restriction on nonresident insurance and reinsurance broker access to the Ukrainian insurance market, obliging them to inform the state commission for financial services market regulation about their plans to carry out activities in Ukraine.

MOSCOW, Feb. 12 – RosUkrEnergo, a Swiss gas trader and the only supplier of natural gas to Ukraine, will be replaced by a new entity to be created between Gazprom and Naftogaz Ukrayiny, officials said Tuesday.

MOSCOW, Feb. 12 – Russia and Ukraine on Tuesday reached a deal on gas debt payments, averting a major aggravation that could have disrupted natural gas supplies and potentially affected the European Union.

KIEV, Feb. 12 - Shigeo Katsu, vice-president for the Europe and Central Asia Region of the World Bank, says the bank could give loans under a development strategy to Ukraine, the parliamentary press service said last week.

KIEV, Feb. 9 ??“ Ukraine and Libya will resume cooperation in the oil and gas sector, Fuel and Energy Minister Yuriy Boyko has said after a recent meeting with Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi.

ASHGABAT, Feb. 12 - Turkmens cast ballots to replace late President Saparmurat Niyazov in a tightly controlled election with no foreign monitors in which the winner appeared all but certain.

KIEV, Feb. 12 - A former Ukrainian foreign minister said Monday that Russia's purported decision to blacklist Volodymyr Ohryzko is an attempt to foil his confirmation by Parliament as the new foreign minister.