KIEV, Dec. 10 – President Viktor Yushchenko on Thursday called for the dismissal of Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko for what he argued was a “failure” to fight corruption over the past four years.

KIEV, Dec. 10 – Volodymyr Stelmakh, the governor of the National Bank of Ukraine, will report to lawmakers Thursday on the hryvnia’s rapid weakening against the U.S. dollar, Prime Minister Yulia Tymosheko said Wednesday.

KIEV, Dec. 10 – Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Wednesday attacked President Viktor Yushchenko for allegedly trying to destroy her coalition and pledged to take unspecified tough steps to make sure the coalition survives.

KIEV, Dec. 10 – An anti-crisis team to be set up in Parliament will include representatives of all parliamentary groups, and will decide on a reshuffle of the government, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said.

KIEV, Dec. 10 – Ukraine's Finance Ministry supports giving borrowers the right to switch credits in foreign currency to hryvnias and gradually relaxing the requirement for the adequacy of banks' capitals from 10% to 8%.

KIEV, Dec. 10 – Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych was approved as the leader of the Regions Party group in Parliament on Monday and will probably become the leader of opposition in Ukraine, lawmakers said.

KIEV, Dec. 10 – Ukraine’s rocketing consumer inflation and rising energy prices will be the main issues to be tackled by the government of Yulia Tymoshenko when she is approved as the new prime minister, analysts said Monday.

KIEV, Dec. 10 - Ukraine will increase shipments of Russian natural gas to Europe 3.4% in 2008, helping the country to raise extra cash to compensate for Russia’s steep gas price hike next year, Naftogaz Ukrayiny, the national oil and gas company, reported Monday.

KIEV, Dec. 10 – Petro Poroshenko, President Viktor Yushchenko’s former top security advisor, and Boris Tarasiuk, a former foreign minister, are top candidates for the post of foreign minister, people familiar with coalition talks said Monday.

KIEV, Dec. 8 ??“ President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych on Friday failed to reach an agreement on whether Foreign Minister Boris Tarasiuk, Yushchenko??™s pro-Western ally, should stay in the government.