TALLIN, Oct. 6 – Five-to-seven years are needed at most to reform the economic structure of Ukraine, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said at a press conference in Tallin on Tuesday after a meeting with his Estonian counterpart Andrus Ansip.

KIEV, Oct. 6 — Ukraine's glamorous former prime minister is slamming a new government dress code as "laughable."

Yulia Tymoshenko, known for lacy dresses and stilettos, said Wednesday that the dress code would prevent the British monarch from entering Cabinet premises.

KIEV, Oct 6 - Ukraine is working hard with the European Union to prepare a free trade agreement but it is not clear if it will be ready for signing at a summit in late November, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said Wednesday.

KIEV, Oct. 6 – Parliament, led by the opposition Regions Party, on Tuesday gave preliminary approval to a bill that dramatically increases social payments and may potentially have a devastating effect on Ukraine’s finances.

KIEV, Oct. 6 – President Viktor Yushchenko will discuss Ukraine's possible membership in the European Union and NATO during his official visit to Italy on Oct. 8.

KIEV, Oct. 6 – President Viktor Yushchenko on Monday extended “for several days” his earlier deadline for political groups to form a new coalition in Parliament before he dismisses the legislature and calls early election.

KIEV, Oct. 6 ??“ President Viktor Yushchenko appointed Serhiy Holovatiy, a prominent lawmaker and chairman of the legal committee at the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe, as the justice minister on Thursday.

KIEV, Oct. 6 ??“ Ukraine raised ?600 mln from selling a 10-year Eurobond on Thursday as investors had snapped up the issue that had been delayed by three weeks due to a government reshuffle.

LVIV, Oct. 6 ??“ President Viktor Yushchenko said Thursday he will meet lawmakers next week to persuade them to approve bills needed for Ukraine??™s accession to the World Trade Organization by the end of the year.

KIEV, Oct. 6 - Ukraine will seek to attract investors for building a plant that would turn coal into gasoline and diesel fuel to eventually reduce heavy dependence on crude oil, an official said Thursday.