KIEV, Jan. 9 — The Czech Republic granted political asylum on Friday to the husband of the jailed Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, who said he sought refuge to prevent the authorities from putting pressure on her through her family, The New York Times reported.

KIEV, Jan. 9 – Russia warned it will probably restrict imports of agricultural commodities from Ukraine after Kiev indicated it will move towards reforming its food control agency in line with the European Union standards.

KIEV, Jan. 5 – Former Prime Minister and leader of Batkivschyna Party Yulia Tymoshenko has said that the funds received under the Kyoto Protocol are still on Ukrainian accounts.

KIEV, Jan. 5 – There is a rather high likelihood of the resumption of the obligatory sale of currency income by exporters in 2011, Serhiy Arbuzov,the governor of the National Bank of Ukraine, said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Jan. 6 – The government will continue in 2011 negotiations concerning the revision of the gas pricing formula in the agreement on Russian natural gas supplies and creating a tripartite joint venture for running the domestic gas transport system, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said.

KIEV, Jan. 5 – An investigator for particularly important cases at the Prosecutor General's Office, Serhiy Horbatiuk, has claimed that the funds allocated under the Kyoto Protocol were spent on the expenditures of the state budget, rather than on the payment of pensions.

KIEV, Jan. 9 - Ukrainian authorities have described as an act of terrorism a New Year's Eve explosion that destroyed a new statue of dictator Josef Stalin in a city in central Ukraine, Reuters reported.

MOSCOW, Jan 9 - The Kremlin's ambition of turning Gazprom, the world's biggest gas company, into a global energy titan is undermined by Soviet-style thinking, poor management and corruption, according to leaked U.S. diplomatic cables.

KIEV, Jan. 8 – Finance Minister Viktor Pinzenyk held a working meeting with CEO of the State Savings Bank of Ukraine (Oschadbank) Anatoly Huley working out the details of the government’s plan to refund billions of hryvnias to former USSR Savings Bank customers.

KIEV, Jan. 9 – Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has quietly ordered an inquiry into whether it is possible to revoke a gas supply license for UkrGaz-Energo, a monopoly supplier of imported natural gas, a newswire reported Wednesday.