KIEV, July 7 - Pro-Russian rebels erected new barricades on the streets of Donetsk on Monday, preparing to make a stand in the city of a million people after losing their bastion in the town of Slovyansk in the worst defeat of their three-month uprising.

KIEV, July 5 - Parliament has approved a bill "On amendments to the Tax Code of Ukraine on transfer pricing" (No. 2515): a total of 321 MPs supported the bill, with 226 votes required for approval.

KIEV, July 5 – Parliament has ratified a convention between the governments of Ukraine and Cyprus to avoid double taxation and prevent income tax evasion.

KIEV, July 5 - Opposition groups Friday pressed President Viktor Yanukovych to release jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko for medical treatment in Germany, saying this would be likely to secure the signing of key agreements with the European Union.

VILNIUS, July 4 – Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite has said that the Ukrainian government has to find a solution to the problem of jailed former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in order to sign an Association Agreement with the European Union.

BRUSSELS, July 5 – Kiev and Brussels intend to hold a meeting of a high-level committee on energy issues soon, Energy Minister Eduard Stavytsky told Ukrainian journalists after a meeting with European Energy Commissioner Gunther Oettinger.

KIEV, July 7 - Ukraine's parliament on Thursday passed a pension reform bill that raises the retirement age for women to 60 from 55 and is one of the key conditions for unfreezing a $15 billion IMF program.

BRUSSELS, July 6 - European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy Stefan Fule has said that an association agreement between Kiev and Brussels will guarantee the continuation of reforms in Ukraine.

KIEV, July 5 – Ukraine could receive a new credit from the International Monetary Fund in August if the country cuts its budget deficit, according to Deputy Prime Minister Serhiy Tyhypko.

"If everything were well, Ukraine could receive money in August… The fund has one requirement – to cut the budget deficit. We're ready to spend less this year – now we gradually can cut financing on each budget's expenses article," he said in an interview with the Kontrakty weekly.

KIEV, July 7 – A number of Ukrainian political analysts have predicted the second stage of government reshuffle this autumn.

"We'll face a new stage of dismissals in autumn," President of the Open Policy Analytical Center Ihor Zhdanov said at a press conference in Kiev on Tuesday.