KIEV, March 28 – Ukraine’s leading opposition party, Batkivshchyna, will hold an emergency meeting on Friday amid reports it was about to incorporate other opposition groups in a major unification effort ahead of the October election.
KIEV, March 26 – The criminal case against former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in the United Energy Systems of Ukraine (UESU) corporation could be sent to court in early April, Tymoshenko's defense lawyer Oleksandr Plakhotniuk has said.
KIEV, March 28 – The Emergencies Ministry has proposed that the government oblige the municipally-owned Kiev Metropoliten enterprise to urgently make its facilities safe from fire, the ministry reported on Tuesday.
KIEV, March 25 – One of the aspects of a criminal case opened against second Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma (1994-2005) is an attempt to seize a portion of the property from his son-in-law - Ukrainian businessman Victor Pinchuk, former prime minister and Batkivschyna Party leader Yulia Tymoshenko said.
KIEV, March 25 – Ukraine will be positioned as "an open country," according to the strategy for positioning Ukraine abroad developed by order of the foreign ministry.
KIEV, March 28 - President Viktor Yanukovych, in his first comment after former President Leonid Kuchma was charged with involvement in the murder of a journalist in 2000, said the investigation is aimed at finding “answers.”
KIEV, March 26 – The Ukrainian economy is gradually emerging from crisis, according to Thanos Arvanitis, chief of the International Monetary Fund mission to Ukraine.
KIEV, March 26 - Prime Minister Mykola Azarov views Russia's agreement to start negotiations on revising the conditions of natural gas supplies to Ukraine as an important result of his visit to Moscow.
KIEV, March 26 - Ukraine will incorporate high natural gas prices into the draft 2010 budget now that recent talks with Russia for lower prices have failed, Deputy Prime Minister Serhiy Tyhypko said.
