KIEV, Dec. 8 – Ukraine's Interior Ministry has begun searching for Dutch paintings stolen back in 2005, Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin reveals.

"The Dutch side raised the issue during the visit of the Ukrainian President to [the] Netherlands. Our Ministry of Interior is working on this," Klimkin told reporters when asked the question by Interfax on Tuesday.

KIEV, Dec. 9 – President Petro Poroshenko has signed a law on the National Agency of Ukraine for Detection and Management of Assets Obtained through Corruption and Other Crimes, the president's press service reported.

KIEV, Dec. 9 – President Petro Poroshenko and Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong discussed stepping up of the cooperation between two countries.

"Petro Poroshenko expressed gratitude to Lee Hsien Loong for his personal support of Ukraine's territorial integrity and inviolability of borders.

KIEV, Dec. 9 – The National Bank of Ukraine has said that the situation on the Ukrainian financial market has not improved and has asked banks not to weaken the hryvnia exchange to the U.S. dollar to no more than UAH 16/$1, a source in financial circles told Interfax-Ukraine following a meeting held by NBU Governor Valeriya Gontareva with representatives of the largest banks on Monday.

LONDON, Dec 9 - The next tranche of IMF funding might not be enough to fully relieve the debt strain on Ukraine, Vladyslav Rashkovan, acting deputy governor of the National Bank of Ukraine told IFR.

KIEV, Dec. 9 - Ukraine's military accused separatists of violating an agreed "Day of Silence" in the country's embattled east on Tuesday, an initiative that was seen as an attempt to forge a durable ceasefire paving the way to a new round of peace talks, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Dec. 9 - The International Monetary Fund executive board meeting to discuss the Article IV Consultation and the ex-post evaluation is scheduled for December 16.

The board will also discuss the ex-post evaluation of the 2010 Stand-by Arrangement.

KIEV, Dec. 9 - The planned Ukrainian-Russian strategic cooperation agreement that would involve Ukraine's joining the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan and has triggered mass protests in Ukraine is due to be signed on December 17, a Ukrainian opposition leader claimed on Saturday.

KIEV, Dec. 9 - Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said that a roadmap for restoring full-scale cooperation between Ukraine and Russia has already been prepared and hopes that all disputes will be settled.

"A roadmap for restoring full-scale cooperation has already been prepared, and I hope that almost all major controversial issues have been resolved after yesterday's talks.

KIEV, Dec. 9 - Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and Russian President Vladimir Putin did not discuss Ukraine's possible accession to the Belarusian-Kazakh-Russian Customs Union at a meeting in Sochi on Friday, the Ukrainian presidential press service said.