KIEV, Aug. 2 – President Viktor Yanukovych has signed a law on the state land cadastre which cancels state acts on the ownership right to land plots from 2013, according to the Web site of the head of state.

KIEV, Aug. 2 – Ukraine’s Supreme Administrative Court on Tuesday upheld a ruling by a Donetsk court stripping posthumous decorations from Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych, two Ukrainian nationalist leaders during World War II.

KIEV, Aug. 1 – Parliament has said that Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn cannot sign a law on pension reform until the body considers a draft resolution proposing to cancel the law.

KIEV, Aug. 2 – President Viktor Yanukovych has signed an instruction to unlock talks on the creation of a free trade zone with the European Union.

KIEV, Aug. 2 – Ukraine suspended exports of gain after the government suddenly ordered additional license requirements amid concerns that extremely hot weather may reduce domestic grain output.

KIEV, Aug. 2 – A cabinet draft law on amendments the Ukrainian law on the printed mass media on the optimization of the state registration of mass media has been registered in Parliament.

KIEV, July 30 – The International Monetary Fund will welcome the restructuring of Naftogaz Ukrainy's debt if it is properly designed to ensure the company's profitability and financial soundness and is conducted on voluntary basis, said IMF Mission Chief for Ukraine Ceyla Pazarbasioglu during a conference call on Ukraine, when asked whether the
IMF supported restructuring a $500 billion eurobond coming due in September.

DONETSK, Aug. 2 – Ukraine won the UEFA European Under-19 soccer championship on home soil Sunday as a goal early in each half from Denys Garmash and Dmytro Korkishko earned a victory against England in Donetsk.

KIEV, July 31 - Standard & Poor's revised its credit rating outlook on Ukraine to positive, from negative, following the release of a $3.3 billion loan installment from the International Monetary Fund.

BRUSSELS, July 31 – International financial institutions may provide Ukraine with $1.7 billion in loans to help the country pay massive natural gas bills and to fund reforms in the energy sector, the European Commission announced Friday.