BRUSSELS, Dec. 3 – Brussels has urged Kiev to stop "juggling with new figures every day" and start an effective dialogue if the sides still want to achieve specific results on the way to the signature of the Association Agreement, a top European diplomat said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine in Brussels on Tuesday.

XIAN, Dec. 4 - President Viktor Yanukovych met with a regional Chinese government official on Wednesday and spoke of his desire to expand cooperation at a regional level between Ukraine and China.

KIEV, Dec. 4 - Chinese companies will build coal-to-gas plants in Ukraine according to an agreement signed on Wednesday, the energy and coal industry ministry reported.

KIEV, Dec. 4 - Germany's foreign minister met Ukrainian opposition leaders at their protest camp in Kiev on Wednesday, in a snub to President Viktor Yanukovych, who triggered mass street demonstrations by refusing to sign a free trade deal with the European Union.

KIEV, Dec. 3 – Kiev Economic Court of Appeals has upheld a ruling by Kiev Economic Court obliging the Ukrainian government to pay over UAH 3.1 billion (about $390 million) of the debt of the UESU Corporation to the Russian Defense Ministry.

KIEV, Dec. 3 – The Regions Party is not ruling out that Mykola Azarov could be nominated for prime minister again.

"There are other candidates apart from Azarov. But who will be nominated? I do not rule out that it could be the current prime minister," the leader of the Regions Party faction in parliament, Oleksandr Yefremov, said at a press conference on Monday.

KIEV, Dec. 3 – President Viktor Yanukovych will go to Turkmenistan on a working visit on December 4-5 to attend a meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Commonwealth of Independent States, said Serhiy Liovochkin, head of the presidential administration.

KIEV, Dec. 4 - Ukraine, one of the largest importers of Russian natural gas, will pay an average of $417 per 1,000 cubic meters in 2013, the government forecast in a draft 2013 budget submitted to Parliament.

KIEV, Dec. 4 – Ukraine's government plans to dramatically widen the budget deficit next year, according to the draft 2013 budget, itself based on an optimistic economic growth scenario.

KIEV, Dec. 3 – President Viktor Yanukovych damped down speculation he would attend a meeting in Moscow on Dec. 19 and snub a summit with EU officials scheduled for the same date.