KIEV, Sept. 9 - Ukraine is near a deal with Kazakhstan over resumption of Kazakh crude oil supplies to the European Union via Ukrainian oil pipelines, First Deputy Prime Minister Andriy Kliuyev said.

KIEV, Sept. 9 – Yulia Tymoshenko, the leader of the largest opposition party in Ukraine, on Thursday threatened to boycott elections in four regions, citing rising administrative pressure from the authorities.

KIEV, Sept. 9 – President Viktor Yanukovych said Thursday his administration has been working on reforms of the system of local self-governance in Ukraine that will provide greater economic and financial independence to the country’s regions.

KIEV, Sept. 7 – The national gas company Naftogaz Ukrayiny, Russia's gas giant Gazprom and the Swiss-registered gas trader RosUkrEnergo AG haven't yet reached a final agreement concerning 12.1 billion cubic meters of gas, which are the subject of litigation between RosUkrEnergo and Naftogaz, Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller told Ukrainian journalists in Moscow on Tuesday.

KIEV, Sept. 8 – President Viktor Yanukovych has instructed the government to draft and approve in two months up to 10 national projects in each of the four areas supported by the Economic Reform Committee.

KIEV, Sept. 9 - Ukraine's GDP will contract by 14% with an inflation rate of around 13% in 2009, according to a memorandum developed by the country's authorities and unveiled recently by the International Monetary Fund.

The document, dated July 23 and only published on Tuesday, worsens the GDP decrease forecast from 8% (as posted in last review of the IMF partnership plan in spring of this year). However, the IMF's inflation forecast was improved against an earlier figure of 16%.

KIEV, Sept. 9 – President Viktor Yushchenko will travel to Turkmenistan on Monday for three-day talks seeking to secure direct supplies of natural gas to the country, Yushchenko’s press service reported Wednesday.

KIEV, Sept. 9 – Controversial legislation governing the next presidential election in Ukraine was put in effect on Tuesday, Parliamentary Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn said Wednesday.

KIEV, Sept. 7 – Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has said he is confident that the finals of the Euro 2012 European Football Championship will be successfully held in Ukraine.

KIEV, Sept. 8 - Russia's likely refusal to adjust gas contracts is a serious threat to normal Naftogaz Ukrayiny operations and, for that matter, to an uninterrupted transit of Russian gas across Ukraine, said Ukraine's presidential energy security advisor Bohdan Sokolovsky.