KIEV, Oct. 5 ??“ Three pro-government groups led by the Regions Party on Thursday voted to cancel a controversial bill that had called for a major reduction of domestic natural gas prices for households.

KIEV, Oct. 5 - Ukraine must quickly introduce energy saving technologies as the country will face an extremely high increase in natural gas prices starting in 2008, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych said Thursday.

KIEV, Oct. 5 ??“ President Viktor Yushchenko Wednesday appointed Yuriy Melnyk as the deputy prime minister for agriculture, creating a new position in the government that is aimed at boosting the agriculture sector.

KIEV. Oct. 5 ??“ Ukraine??™s consumer prices rose 0.4% on the month in September, a relatively slow increase, suggesting inflationary pressures have been easing and making it feasible to run a one-digit inflation in 2005.

KIEV. Oct. 5 ??“ The National Bank of Ukraine was forced to spend an undisclosed amount of U.S. dollars Tuesday and Wednesday to prop up the hryvnia after the national currency had faced a sudden downward pressure.

KIEV, Oct. 5 ??“ Since the beginning of 2005 office premises in Kiev have increased by 22.8% to 420,000 square meters and will grow by 4.5% more to 439,000 square meters by the end of the year, regional director of DTZ Zadelhoff Tie Leung ??“ Kyiv Nick Cotton reported.

KIEV, Oct. 5 ??“ Ukrtsukor, the national association of sugar producers, has asked the president and the government to take measures to help regulate the sugar industry.

KIEV. Oct. 5 - Ukraine will have to spend between two and three years on testing nuclear fuel produced in the U.S. before starting any major imports, a government official said Wednesday.

KIEV, Oct. 5 - A top Ukrainian official on Wednesday denied speculation that Kiev may have reached a secret deal with Moscow over keeping natural gas prices unchanged in 2006.

KYIV, Sept 5 – Ukrainian citizens who fled to the EU after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine say that online public services in Ukraine are much better (71%) than in EU countries (16%).