TRIESTE, Nov. 27 - Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he did not discuss the revision of a gas supply contract with Ukraine with its President Viktor Yanukovych in exchange for Kiev's decision not to sign the Association Agreement with the European Union.

KIEV, Nov. 27 – President Viktor Yanukovych will address the participants of the Eastern Partnership summit in Vilnius on Friday.

KIEV, Nov. 27 - Ukrainians on Wednesday kept up their nearly week-long protest against the government's decision not to sign a landmark trade deal with the EU in favor of increasing ties with Russia.

KIEV, Nov. 27 – The International Monetary Fund rejected key macro-economic indicators in Ukraine’s 2013 budget, forcing the government to delay the budget bill, Economy Minister Petro Poroshenko said Tuesday.

KIEV, Nov. 25 – The District Administrative Court of Kiev has declared illegal an order by the Ukrainian Emergencies Ministry on a mechanism of travel to the Chernobyl exclusion zone by Ukrainian citizens and foreigners that is not envisaged by the law on the legal regime of this territory, the Prosecutor General's Office reported on Friday.

KIEV, Nov. 27 - Thousands of Ukrainians serenaded opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko outside her jail cell on Sunday in a special birthday concert aimed at showing the West that she still has strong support among the people.

KIEV, Nov. 27 - One of about 30 protesters who had been on hunger strike in Donetsk over pension cuts died Sunday night after police broke up their tent encampment, Reuters reported, citing the protest leader.

KIEV, Nov. 24 – Head of the European Union's Delegation to Ukraine Jose Manuel Pinto Teixeira has said that the EU will not take any sanctions against the citizens of Ukraine in connection with the internal situation in the country.

KIEV, Nov. 27 – Oleksandr Suhonyako, the president of the Association of Ukrainian Banks, has criticized the currency exchange rate policy of the National Bank of Ukraine.

"I cannot explain the policy of deliberately hacking the hryvnia exchange rate. The issue still faces the Ukrainian president and NBU leadership. We don't see any explanation for this policy," he said at a press conference in Kiev on Wednesday.

KIEV, Nov. 27 – U.S. dollars are expected to hit the cash market Friday following weeks of scarce supply as the National Bank of Ukraine is due to lift currency restrictions, a top NBU official said.