KIEV, Feb. 6 – The International Monetary Fund is satisfied with the implementation of obligations by the National Bank of Ukraine, reads a posting on the NBU's Web site.

KIEV, Feb. 6 - Ukraine is not happy with the level of cooperation within the European Energy Community, which has failed to support the country on crucial issues, President Viktor Yanukovych said Wednesday.

KIEV, Feb. 6 - Ukraine dismissed as “unjust” a $7 billion penalty recently imposed by Russian gas giant Gazprom for natural gas it failed to import in 2012, President Viktor Yanukovych said Wednesday.

KIEV, Feb. 6 – Talks between the ruling Regions Party and opposition groups aimed at unblocking the work of Parliament failed on Wednesday, deepening Ukraine’s political crisis and raising the possibility of early elections.

KIEV, Feb. 6 – Russia on Tuesday will ban imports of a number of dairy products produced by some Ukrainian companies, potentially unleashing a trade war that may affect talks on natural gas prices.

KIEV, Feb. 6 - The question of creating a trilateral gas transport consortium now remains very important, President Viktor Yanukovych said.

"We are currently actualizing this proposal, and we think that it remains very important and timely," he said as part of the 48th Munich Security Conference on February 3.

KIEV, Feb. 3 - The National Bank of Ukraine and the banking associations of Ukraine are working on draft amendments to the current legislation, which could foresee the introduction of a ban on the early withdrawal of fixed-period deposits, according to a posting on the NBU's Web site.

WARSAW, Feb. 3 – Ukrainian justice pays no attention to the political affiliation of criminal suspects, according to President Viktor Yanukovych.

KIEV, Feb. 4 – The former head of the State Committee of Ukraine for the State Material Reserve, Mykhailo Pozhyvanov, has said that he may seek political asylum in the West if he is put on the wanted list by Interpol.

KIEV, Feb. 5 – Police and prosecutors searched the home of Vasyl Onopenko, the head of the Supreme Court, as part of an ongoing investigation into a business loan taken out by his daughter in 2008, Ukrayinska Pravda reported Friday, citing a newswire report.