KIEV, July 4 – President Viktor Yanukovych and his Cypriot counterpart Demetris Christofias attended a ceremony to sign bilateral documents in Kiev on Monday.

The press service of the Ukrainian president reported that the sides had signed four intergovernmental agreements on cooperation in various fields, as well as a memorandum of understanding between the foreign ministries of Ukraine and Cyprus on cooperation in matters related to the European Union.

KIEV, July 4 - Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kostiantyn Hryschenko and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should have signed a memorandum on mutual understanding between the governments of Ukraine and the United States regarding cooperation in nuclear safety in Vilnius (Lithuania) on July 1, but the document has not been signed, according to the Dzerkalo Tyzhnia Ukraine weekly with reference to its own source.

KIEV, July 4 - The trial of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was adjourned until July 6 after the embattled opposition leader hired a new lawyer and once again refused to stand up to honor the judge.

YALTA, July 2 - Russia and Ukraine could reach an agreement on a format for their partnership in the gas sector before the end of the year, Ukrainian First Deputy Prime Minister Kliuyev Kliuyev told journalists.

KIEV, July 3 – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday quietly warned Ukraine's president not to backtrack on the democratic reforms ushered in by the 2004 Orange Revolution, the Washington Post reported.

KIEV, July 3 – The International Monetary Fund agreed in principle Friday to provide Ukraine with $14.9 billion in a 2.5-year standby lending package in order to stabilize its economy, which suffered a major contraction last year.

KIEV, July 1 – The opposition is planning to initiate an independent international investigation in connection with a Stockholm Arbitration Tribunal ruling obliging Naftogaz Ukrayiny to return 11 billion cubic meters of gas and pay a fine to Swiss-registered gas trader RosUkrEnergo.

KIEV, July 1 – Parliament has set up a temporary investigatory commission to conduct an inquiry into the June 8 Stockholm Arbitration Tribunal ruling, the allegations of corrupt activities against the Swiss-registered gas trader RosUkrEnergo AG, the involvement of public officials into this case, and the arrest of former chief of the State Customs Service Anatoliy Makarenko.

This decision was supported by 238 out of 433 lawmakers at Parliament's meeting on Thursday.

KIEV, July 3 - Kiev will host the summit of the European Union on Sept. 14, Presidential Secretariat deputy head Oleksandr Chaly announced at a briefing in Kiev on Tuesday.

ODESSA, July 4 – More than 1,000 protesters marched against a joint Ukrainian-NATO exercise in Odessa on Wednesday, a newswire reported, citing an activist of a party that had organized the action.