MOSCOW, July 5 - Russian President Vladimir Putin is to pay a working visit to Ukraine on July 12 to attend the fifth session of the Russian-Ukrainian intergovernmental commission chaired by the heads of state near Yalta, the Kremlin said on Thursday.

KIEV, July 7 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny will borrow $2 billion from Gazprombank for seven years in order to raise money to pay for current natural gas imports, the company reported on Saturday.

KIEV, July 6 - Lawmakers on Friday refused to accept the resignation of Parliamentary Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn and voted to close the legislature for summer recess, leaving uncertain the fate of a controversial language bill.

KIEV, July 6 – Parliament has adopted a declaration, entitled "Real guarantees to Ukraine's nuclear-free status," which calls on the international community to strengthen security assurances to Ukraine, which declared its nuclear-free status 16 years ago.

KIEV, July 8 – President Viktor Yanukovych’s push for greater powers by re-writing the constitution slowed down on Thursday after lawmakers submitted more than 1,000 amendments to the legislation.

KIEV, July 8 – Parliament on Thursday approved 2010 budget amendments that reduce the deficit by cutting state spending as required to qualify for a $14.9 billon loan from the International Monetary Fund.

KIEV, July 8 – Defense Minister Mykhaylo Yezhel was given until the end of July to improve the army’s combat readiness following a meeting of the top security body under President Viktor Yanukovych on Thursday.

KIEV, July 7 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) sold more than $600 million from its foreign exchange reserves in June, Valery Lytvytsky, the head of the group of advisors to the NBU governor, said.

KIEV, July 8 - Naftogaz Ukrayiny will continue pumping gas into underground storage facilities in July, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said at a government meeting on Wednesday.

KIEV, July 8 – Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s government on Wednesday bypassed deadlocked Parliament by approving a resolution that calls for boosting capital of Naftogaz Ukrayiny, a troubled state energy company.