MOSCOW, Sept. 27 - Gazprom is open to a search for compromises, but until the achievement and signing of a final agreement with Ukraine, the existing long-term contract will remain in effect until 2019, Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller told reporters.

KIEV, Sept. 27 – Prime Minister Mykola Azarov supports the toughening of the rules of sale and purchase of cash currency, but he said that it is necessary to adjust them to reduce limitations of the freedoms of citizens.

"All of these measures should not restrict freedoms of people. If currency is obtained legally, it should be freely exchanged without any limitations," he told the press on Tuesday in Kiev.

ODESSA, Sept. 26 – The Prosecutor General's Office has opened a criminal case against Deputy Odessa Mayor Mykola Ilchenko under part 3, Article 368 of the Criminal Code - taking large bribes, the Prosecutor General's Office in Odessa region said.

KIEV, Sept. 27 – Prosecutors demanded a seven-year sentence for former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Tuesday in an abuse of power trial that may derail Ukraine’s free trade and political association deals with the European Union.

BRUSSELS, Sept. 24 – The European Commission has welcomed Ukraine's accession to the Energy Community and expects the implementation by the country of EU energy legislation in the gas sector, the commission's energy spokesperson, Marlene Holzner, said in Brussels on Friday.

KIEV, Sept. 27 – Ukrainian and Turkish Foreign Ministers Kostiantyn Hryschenko and Ahmet Davutoglu have discussed the prospects for the implementation of joint large-scale projects in the transport sector, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry reported on Monday.

KIEV, Sept. 27 – The Lugela, a cargo ship with a crew of 12 Ukrainian sailors, escaped from Somali pirates in the early hours of Monday, Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister Ruslan Demchenko has told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Sept. 27 – A group of civil rights activists plans to stage a protest in front of the SBU security service offices on Wednesday in response to increasing pressure against journalists in Ukraine.

KIEV, Sept. 25 - Naftogaz Ukrayiny, the country’s national energy company, will invest 1 billion hryvnias ($117.6 million) to finish construction of hundreds of small natural gas pipelines this year, Fuel and Energy Minister Yuriy Prodan said Friday.

KIEV, Sept. 25 – The results of checks conducted by UEFA experts on the construction of a Euro 2012 stadium in Lviv have shown that the stadium will not be commissioned on time, by the summer of 2011.