KIEV, July 10 – The Security Service, after revealing substantial infringements during the implementation of state procurement, has proposed to the Cabinet of Ministers to oblige state-run enterprises which carry out state procurement using their own funds to post information on the outcome of the state procurement on the state procurement Web site (tender.me.gov.ua).

KIEV, July 10 – Prime Minister Mykola Azarov will travel to Sochi on Friday to meet his Russian counterpart Dmitri Medvedev amid worsening rhetoric over import duties that may escalate into a trade war.

MOSCOW, July 9 - Moscow has expressed regrets that Ukraine is still not involved in integration within the framework of the Eurasian Economic Space.

"It is very regretful that fraternal Ukraine is outside this process [of Eurasian integration]," Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting at the Russian Foreign Ministry on Monday.

KIEV, July 10 - The tax evasion trial of Yulia Tymoshenko was put off by court order until July 23 due to the former Ukrainian prime minister's inability to attend hearings on health ground.

KIEV, July 7 – The consideration of a gas supply case against her in court is intended to distract attention from real problems facing Ukraine, former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said.

KIEV, July 8 - The adoption of all laws on land reform this year will guarantee the introduction of a land market in Ukraine in 2012, President Viktor Yanukovych said.

KIEV, July 8 – The contractual framework with Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan should be switched to Ukraine's relations with the Customs Union in the 3+1 format, President Viktor Yanukovych said.

KIEV, July 8 - President Viktor Yanukovych has signed legislation that amends the country's law by laying out the principles for the functioning of its natural gas market, which will allow national oil and gas company Naftogaz Ukrayiny to fulfill a gas-export agreement with Poland's state oil and gas company PGNiG, the presidential press service said.

KIEV, July 8 - Ukraine is not planning a merger of national oil and gas company Naftogaz Ukrayiny with Russian gas giant Gazprom, President Viktor Yanukovych said on Friday.

KIEV, July 10 - Sixteen people died in Ukraine early Sunday after a fire broke out in a state facility for the elderly, according to Ukraine’s Emergency Ministry.

The retirement home was a wooden house built in 1950 in the village of Bile in the Dubrovitskiy district of the Rivne region, the ministry reported.