KIEV, Dec. 26 – Bilateral consultations on simplifying travel rules for Ukrainian citizens in Turkey were held in Ankara, Turkey, on December 23, according to the State Migration Service of Ukraine.

KIEV, Dec. 26 – The policy of the Ukrainian government should be clear to the public, and social protection should be effective, First Deputy Prime Minister and National Bank of Ukraine Governor Serhiy Arbuzov said.

KIEV, Dec. 27 – Ukraine and Russia may hold a meeting of the inter-parliamentary committee on cooperation in high-tech industries in Dnipropetrovsk in the coming months.

KIEV, Dec. 27 - Deputy National Bank of Ukraine Governor Ihor Sorkin has been appointed acting NBU governor, a source in the central bank has reported.

KIEV, Dec. 27 - Newly appointed Energy and Coal Industry Minister Eduard Stavytskiy vowed to pay close attention and to finish construction of $1 billion liquefied natural gas terminal to diversify the country's energy imports.

KIEV, Dec. 27 – Prime Minister Mykola Azarov on Thursday tried to downplay the importance of cooperating with the International Monetary Fund and said Ukraine is in talks with undisclosed “other” sources of lending.

KIEV, Dec. 27 - Ukraine and Russia will be able to reach a compromise over natural gas prices after talks resume next month, Ukraine’s chief negotiator, energy and coal industry minister Yuriy Boyko, said Tuesday.

KIEV, Dec. 27 – President Viktor Yanukovych’s public support for the first time in five years dropped below that of opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, signaling serious trouble for his Regions Party ahead of October 2012 elections.

KIEV, Dec. 26 - Ukraine's jailed ex-prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko has urged President Viktor Yanukovych not to "surrender" the country's natural gas pipeline system to Russia and has blasted him for "throwing the country back decades" by failing to achieve a deal the European Union a week ago on closer ties between Ukraine and the EU.

KIEV, Dec. 24 – The Ukrainian government expects to eliminate the deficit of the Pension Fund in 2013 or 2014 and launch the second, accumulative stage of the pension system, Deputy Prime Minister and Social Policy Minister Serhiy Tyhypko said.