KIEV, Oct. 2 – Ukrainian Ambassador to Russia Volodymyr Yelchenko has said he is confident that Ukraine will manage to persuade its Russian partners to reduce the price of natural gas.

KIEV, Oct. 4 – Ukraine’s two most popular opposition parties are nearing an agreement on backing single candidates in majority districts ahead of October 28 vote, posing a challenge to the ruling Regions Party.

KIEV, Oct. 4 – Ukraine needs to cut social spending to avoid a Greece-like fiscal problem, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said Tuesday, defending his push towards approval of a controversial bill in Parliament.

KIEV, Oct. 4 – The Ukrainian cabinet has started a reorganization of Naftogaz Ukrayiny, the state natural gas monopoly, aimed at making the holding profitable.

KIEV, Oct. 4 – Ukraine’s three pro-government parties on Monday signed a new coalition agreement, a formal step aimed at showing they accept the latest ruling by the Constitutional Court, which changed Ukraine’s constitution overnight.

YALTA, Oct. 1 - Ukraine's intention to join the European Union does not mean it will not actively cooperate with other world political and economic centers, President Viktor Yanukovych said at the seventh annual meeting of the Yalta European Strategy on Friday.

KIEV, Oct. 2 – Parliament Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn said that he wants to introduce a bill banning the sale of the state’s stake in the OJSC Odessa Port-Side Plant for the next few years.

Lytvyn announced this on Thursday during the meeting with residents of the town of Bolhrad, Odessa region, the Verkhovna Rada's press service reported.

KIEV, Oct. 2 - The Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce has scheduled hearings for March 15-28, 2010 on a conflict between Vanco Prikerchenska Limited and Ukraine to make Ukraine to implement a PSA agreement signed in October 2007.

KIEV, Oct. 3 – The International Monetary Fund may postpone its next $3.1 billion installment to Ukraine unless the government hikes domestic natural gas prices and implements other reforms, a senior official at President Viktor Yushchenko’s office said.

KIEV, Oct. 2 - The completion of the parliamentary elections in Ukraine will become a positive signal for investors, according to bankers polled by the Interfax Ukraine agency.