GELENDZHIK, Oct. 4 - Russian agencies have been asked to draw up possible projects to build a bridge across the Kerch Strait.

"[Ukrainian President] Viktor Fedorovych [Yanukovych] and I have just seen one of the possible bridge construction projects. This is a very important, vital project.

KIEV, Oct. 5 – Without serious economic reforms, the restoration of capital inflows to Ukraine will be slow, International Monetary Fund Mission Chief in Ukraine Ceyla Pazarbasioglu said.

KIEV, Oct. 5 – Restructuring of Naftogaz Ukrayiny’s debts won’t affect raising gas prices for households and industrial producers in Ukraine, the company’s CEO Oleh Dubyna said in an interview with the Dzerkalo Tyzhnia (Mirror Weekly) newspaper.

KIEV, Oct. 5 - Ukraine will make sure that Russian natural gas supplies to the European Union are not disrupted during the upcoming winter, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said Monday.

KIEV, Oct. 5 – The government scrambled on Monday to persuade the International Monetary Fund to continue lending to Ukraine, arguing that its $16.4 billion loan was “extremely important” for the country.

KIEV, Oct. 2 – The government's decisions to sell gas to chemical and metallurgical companies and religious organizations at reduced prices and cuts in subsidies that compensate for the difference between the price of imported gas and the price at which it is sold to heat supplying companies will cost Naftogaz Ukrayiny UAH1.73 billion September through December 2009.

KIEV, Oct. 3 - Russia and Ukraine will sign an agreement on prices and volume of imports of natural gas in 2009 within the next month, Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said Friday.

KIEV, Oct. 3 – President Viktor Yushchenko, citing national security concerns, on Friday signed a decree ordering the government to urgently provide $1.8 billion in funds to Naftogaz Ukrayiny to stabilize its operation.

KIEV, Oct. 4 – President Viktor Yushchenko set a deadline of Tuesday, Oct. 7, for political groups to form a new coalition, saying that otherwise he will dismiss Parliament and call early elections.

KIEV, Oct. 5 ??“ The switching of the Our Ukraine faction into opposition to the governmental coalition and its plans to withdraw its ministers from the cabinet will not significantly affect the hryvnia exchange rate, according to bankers interviewed by Interfax-Ukraine.