KIEV, July 2 – Mykola Azarov, a former finance minister and a senior member of the opposition Regions Party, on Wednesday questioned the government’s plans to tap international financial markets amid rising borrowing costs.

KIEV, July 2 – A sharp disagreement over 2008’s inflation forecast led to a clash between the government and the central bank on Wednesday, ending inconclusively a five-hour meeting at President Viktor Yushchenko’s office.

KIEV, July 1 –President Viktor Yushchenko has signed a decision of the National Security and Defense Council on the state of the implementation of a state program to develop the aviation industry through 2010.

KIEV, July 1 – Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is to attend the fifth annual summit of the Yalta European Strategy international network, the organizers of the summit said on Tuesday.

BRUSSELS, July 2 - Vyacheslav Kyrylenko, the leader of President Viktor Yushchenko's Our Ukraine party, said he was "cautiously optimistic" that the snap Sept. 30 election may improve ties between the country and the European Union.

KIEV, July 2 - The government seeks to lift duties on imports of grain for the next 12 months to prevent grain shortages following major drought that had swept through Ukraine earlier this year.

DONETSK, July 2 - A pro-Russian party has been recruiting volunteers in the Donetsk region for protests later this month aimed at preventing a military exercise involving NATO troops in Ukraine, a newswire reported.

KIEV, June 29 ??“ There will be between 478,500 and 820,400 HIV infected adults in Ukraine by 2014 or between 1.9% and 3.5% of the adult population, according to a research by the World Bank and International HIV/AIDS Alliance.

KIEV, June 30 - The Ukrainian government on Friday appointed Oleksandr Bolkisev, acting chairman of the national oil and gas company Naftogaz Ukrayiny, as the company chairman, the government??™s press service said Friday.

HAMBURG, June 30 - Luca Toni helped put Italy into the World Cup semifinals with two goals in his team's 3-0 win over Ukraine on Friday, The Associated Press reported.