KIEV, Nov. 1 - Commercial bank deposits in Ukraine have exceeded the pre-crisis level, a sign of reviving confidence in the banking sector, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said.

KIEV, Nov. 1 - Former President Viktor Yushchenko, whose Our Ukraine party performed poorly at Sunday local elections, said the party will work hard to improve its position before next parliamentary election.

KIEV, Nov. 1 - Ukraine's has opposition claimed serious irregularities in Sunday's local elections, which are seen as an important test of President Viktor Yanukovych's commitment to democratic freedoms.

KIEV, Nov. 1 - Kharkiv city election commission has delayed crucial data on voter turnout and is counting ballots at an extremely slow pace, potentially setting the stage for election fraud, opposition leaders charged Monday.

KIEV, Nov. 1 - Ukraine and Russia will establish a special team to discuss revision of Ukrainian-Russian natural gas agreements concluded by the previous government in 2009, the government reported Monday.

KIEV, Oct. 29 – The Central Election Committee has published declarations on incomes of seven registered candidates for the post of Ukraine's president.

Presidential candidate Sergiy Tihipko declared UAH 20.262 million in income for 2008, whereas his salary totaled UAH 3.722 million, income from the sale of securities - UAH 10.57 million.

KIEV, Oct. 30 - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s remarks that Ukraine is increasingly unable to pay for natural gas imports are “groundless” and “unfriendly,” President Viktor Yushchenko’s top energy envoy said Friday.

KIEV, Oct. 30 – President Viktor Yushchenko on Friday signed into law a bill that increases wages and pensions, despite the government’s warning that the move would significantly increase inflation and undermine financial stability.

KIEV, Nov. 1 – Ukraine on Sunday appealed for urgent international help seeking medicines and equipment to stop the spread of a deadly virus that was identified Friday as a strain of the swine flu.

KIEV, Nov. 1 - Ukraine's joining the World Trade Organization would increase the competitiveness of the country's economy, according to senior economist of CASE Ukraine Center for Social and Economic Research, Vladimir Dubrovskiy.