ISTANBUL, June 8 – President Viktor Yanukovych said there is a realistic prospect of completing the construction of the Kerch-Caucasus crossing by 2014.

KIEV, June 9 – President Viktor Yanukovych said that a joint task for Ukraine and Azerbaijan is to increase bilateral trade, which halved in 2009.

He said this at a meeting with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Istanbul on Tuesday, the press service of the Ukrainian head of state reported.

KIEV, June 9 – Journalists of the TVi Channel have called for the creation of an independent parliamentary commission to investigate the withdrawal of frequencies allocated to the Fifth TV Channel and the TVi Channel in some cities of Ukraine, as well as consider the dismissal of Security Service chief Valeriy Khoroshkovsky, a representative of journalists of the TVi Channel Vitaliy Portnikov said at a press conference in Kiev.

KIEV, June 9 – TVi, an independent television station that lost dozens of frequencies after a court ruling Tuesday, asked foreign embassies to cancel entry visas for those Ukrainian officials that had been involved in the attack.

KIEV, June 9 - Ukraine will probably appeal a Stockholm court ruling requiring Naftogaz Ukrayiny to give 12.1 billion cubic meters of stored natural gas to RosUkrEnergo, Energy and Fuel Minister Yuriy Boyko said Wednesday.

KIEV, June 9 - Ukraine and Russia on Wednesday signed an agreement to jointly build two nuclear power reactors at the Khmelnytskiy Nuclear Power Plant. The value of the deal was not disclosed.

KIEV, June 9 – Ukraine’s recent money printing to pay Russian natural gas debts was within limits allowed by the International Monetary Fund, and will not jeopardize a planned $3 billion loan, President Viktor Yushchenko said Tuesday.

KIEV, June 9 – Volodymyr Lytvyn, the parliamentary speaker who at the request of Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko joined secret constitutional talks last week, Tuesday confirmed amendments anticipated restricting elections, civil liberties and the freedom of speech.

KIEV, June 9 – Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Tuesday attacked President Viktor Yushchenko for “destroying” a political alliance aimed at approving constitutional amendments that had been secretly agreed upon over the past two weeks.

KIEV, June 9 - Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko will seek to shut down dangerous coal mines in the country following a deadly explosion that had killed at least one and trapped 37 miners on Sunday.