KIEV, March 10 – Donetsk-based Donbassaero is probing the cause of a delay in a regular flight between Kiev and Simferopol, which was scheduled for 7:15 a.m. Kiev time on March 9.

"The exact causes behind the long delay in the departure of the plane are being investigated, after which Donbassaero's management will take adequate measures.

KIEV, March 10 – Over 1.5 million Ukrainians have left the country to work abroad since 2000, according to the head of the Open Ukraine foundation, MP Arseniy Yatseniuk.

"Since 2000, according to our data, some 1.5 million people left Ukraine as labor migrants," he said during a conference entitled "Feeling the migrant's heartbeat: who and what awaits Ukrainian migrants after their return?" on Tuesday in Kiev.

MOSCOW, March 10 - Russia has received Ukraine's request for a loan totaling $5 billion, but has yet to make a decision on the issue, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said at a briefing on Tuesday.

KIEV, March 10 – The presidential secretariat is concerned over the complicated social and economic situation in the country, particularly regarding the increasing salary debts in the regions.

The deputy head of presidential secretariat, Roman Bezsmertny, said on Tuesday that the sum of salary debts is currently UAH 1.525 billion.

KIEV, March 11 - President Viktor Yushchenko on Thursday plans to examine the books of Naftogaz Ukrayiny to see whether the national oil and gas company can run without a major financial gap in 2009.

KIEV, March 11 – The government on Wednesday approved a number of decisions complying with demands from the International Monetary Fund in hopes of getting a $1.84 billion installment before the end of the month.

BRUSSELS, March 11 - Ukraine is a good economic partner for the European Union, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said.

After Ukraine joined the World Trade Organization Kiev started talks with Brussels on creating a free trade zone which is also stipulated in the new EU-Ukraine Enhanced Agreement which is currently being negotiated, she said at the EU-Ukraine conference in Brussels on Monday.

KIEV, March 11 – Ukraine doesn't plan to bring up the issue of raising the price of Russian natural gas transit during the talks with Gazprom in Moscow, First Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Turchynov said.

"Ukraine does not plan to bring up the issue of raising the gas transit price, and we believe that Russia will act correspondingly and will not touch the issue of raising the price of gas supplies," he said in an interview with reporters in Kiev on Tuesday.

KIEV, March 11 – The government on Tuesday denied media reports that Ukraine had allegedly agreed to pay almost twice as much for natural gas that Russia’s Gazprom supplied in January and February.

BRUSSELS, March 11 - The Ukrainian government will create favorable conditions for big European business to come to this country, Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said at the European Round Table of Industrialists in Brussels on Monday attended by leaders of world known corporations such as Nokia, Shell, Volvo, SAP, Eny, ERT and Royal Dutch Shell.