KIEV, July 6 – Parliament has simplified the procedure for considering cases of administrative violations during mass sports and cultural events in the period when the country is hosting the Euro 2012 European Football Championship in Ukraine.

KIEV, July 6 – The fate of Defense Minister Mykhaylo Yezhel will be in focus when the top security body under President Viktor Yanukovych holds its meeting on Wednesday, a newspaper reported Tuesday, citing a source.

KIEV, July 6 – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to Ukraine played the key role in the International Monetary Fund’s decision to agree on a $14.9 billion loan, Deputy Prime Minister Serhiy Tyhypko said Tuesday.

KIEV, July 5 – Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has praised the results of the visit of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Ukraine, which has confirmed that the two states have established a reliable partnership.

KIEV, July 5 – The European Commission has not received any formal requests or proposals from Kiev regarding the construction of a new gas pipeline or the creation of a trilateral venture to upgrade Ukraine's existing gas transport system.

KIEV, July 6 – Cooperation with the International Monetary Fund improves the initial conditions for economic reforms in Ukraine, said Serhiy Tyhypko, Ukraine's deputy prime minister in charge of relations with the IMF, has said that.

KIEV, July 6 – President Viktor Yushchenko has welcomed the practical steps taken by the European Union to implement the Nabucco international gas pipeline project, the Ukrainian president's representative for international energy security matters, Bohdan Sokolovsky, said.

KIEV, July 6 – President Viktor Yushchenko has asked Lithuanian President-Elect Dalia Grybauskaite to help Ukraine implement the Euro-Asian Oil Transport Corridor project.

"I addressed Mrs. Grybauskaite with a request that she personally participate in the consideration of this issue in Brussels," the presidential press service quoted Yushchenko as saying at a meeting with Grybauskaite in Vilnius on Monday.

KIEV, July 6 - Naftogaz Ukrayiny on Monday paid about $270 million to Russian gas giant Gazprom, narrowly meeting a deadline for covering natural gas imports in June, Naftogaz reported in a statement.

KIEV, July 6 – Ukraine is holding talks with both Russia and the European Union, over a loan to massively purchase Russian natural gas within the next three months, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said Monday.