KIEV, Nov. 6 – President Viktor Yanukovych has returned a law on the production and trade of organic agricultural products and raw materials to Parliament.

KIEV, Nov. 6 – Serhiy Liovochkin, the powerful chief of staff at President Viktor Yanukovych’s administration, on Tuesday denied reports that he may be dismissed for failing to prevent election fraud.

KIEV, Nov. 6 – Ukraine’s three opposition groups on Tuesday expanded the number of majority districts they said had been affected by alleged vote manipulation and urged the Central Election Commission to get “calculators” and recount the ballots.

KIEV, Nov. 4 – The Ukrainian government on October 3 issued government domestic loan bonds worth UAH 4 billion and paid for the additionally issued shares of national joint-stock company Naftogaz Ukrayiny, according to the National Bank of Ukraine.

KIEV, Nov. 3 - Ukraine failed to persuade the International Monetary Fund to resume a $15.5 billion loan program, the central bank indicated Friday, stripping the country of a key funding option as it confronts a looming currency crisis.

“The IMF mission is completing its work in Ukraine,” the bank said in a statement.

KIEV, Nov. 4 - Ukraine expects to pay a "much lower" price for natural gas imported from Russia next year, First Deputy Prime Minister Andriy Klyuev said.

KIEV, Nov. 3 — Efforts to free jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko suffered another setback Friday after lawmakers delayed voting on a legal reform that could allow her release.

KIEV, Nov. 4 – President Viktor Yushchenko has signed a decree decreasing by a quarter the staff of the offices of the head of state.

The decree was issued ten days after a decision taken by the National Security and Defense Council on tackling the financial crisis, the presidential press service quoted Presidential Secretariat Head Viktor Baloha as saying.

KIEV, Nov. 6 - The National Bank of Ukraine reported on its official website Thuesday that its gross international reserves in October went down by 15%, or by $5.605 billion, to $31.923 billion.

In September, the central bank’s reserves went down by 1.4%, or $533.98 million.

KIEV, Nov. 6 - Libya within the next three weeks will send a team to Ukraine for talks over construction of an oil refinery, a top official at the office of President Viktor Yushchenko said Thursday.