KIEV, Oct. 11 - Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Tuesday was sentenced to seven years in prison for exceeding her authority while negotiating a controversial 10-year natural gas agreement with Russia in January 2009.

NEW YORK, Oct. 11 – The United States, in strong language, on Tuesday demanded the release of opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko after she was sentenced to seven years for negotiating a 10-year natural gas agreement with Russia in 2009.

KIEV, Oct. 10 - The gas accords with Russia signed under Yulia Tymoshenko's premiership will end up costing the country $80 billion over a decade, according to Infrastructure Minister Boris Kolesnikov.

SIMFEROPOL, Oct. 11 – Ukraine and Russia will start preparations for the construction of a bridge across the Kerch Strait to be completed by 2014, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea Vasyl Dzharty announced.

KIEV, Oct. 11 – Yulia Tymoshenko, the leader of Ukraine’s largest opposition party, said Monday all state assets sold under President Viktor Yanukovych’s leadership will be returned back to the state when she comes to power.

KIEV, Oct. 8 – President Viktor Yanukovych, due to the ecological disaster in Hungary, has ordered the authorities to check the state of environmentally hazardous objects in Ukraine and take urgent measures to prevent emergencies, his press service reported on Friday.

KIEV, Oct. 10 – Parliament on Friday approved Petro Poroshenko, a pro-Western figure, as the country’s new foreign minister, ending a seven-month vacancy on a key government post and signaling consolidation of foreign policy.

KIEV, Oct. 8 – President Viktor Yushchenko has signed a decree instructing the state border service to take all steps to block the departure of dishonest borrowers of troubled Ukrprombank and Nadra Bank from the country.

KIEV, Oct. 11 - President Viktor Yushchenko’s office on Thursday accused Russian gas giant Gazprom of using its energy leverage for putting political pressure on Ukraine ahead of crucial talks over natural gas prices.

BRATISLAVA, Oct. 11 – Ukraine will be able to boost ties with the European Union and accelerate integration after a new government is formed following the Sept. 30 snap election, President Viktor Yushchenko said Thursday.