KIEV, Sept. 1 – Ukraine will seek not only lower prices for Russian natural gas, but also higher tariffs for shipments of gas to Europe in talks with Moscow, a top Ukrainian official said Wednesday.
KIEV, Sept. 1 – A key witness in the case of missing Ukrainian journalist Vasyl Klymentyev has also disappeared, a newswire reported Wednesday, citing Petro Matviyenko, Klymentyev’s colleague and a witness in the case.
KIEV, Aug. 31 – President Viktor Yanukovych's visit to Germany will serve as an impetus to more active relations between Ukraine and Germany if reform is conducted and terms of cooperation are changed, said Nico Lange, director of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation's office in Ukraine.
KIEV, Sept. 1 - President Viktor Yushchenko will travel to Turkmenistan later this month to try to secure an alternative to Russian supplies of natural gas, a senior official said Tuesday.
KIEV, Sept. 1 - Russia has tentatively agreed not to impose penalties on Ukraine for lower-than-expected imports of natural gas this year, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said Tuesday.
KIEV, Sept. 1 – The opposition Regions Party blocked the podium of Parliament on Tuesday after its bill aimed at increasing minimum wages and pensions was rejected by lawmakers.
KIEV, Aug. 31 – Ukraine should develop domestic production and domestic consumption in order to tackle its economic crisis, according to Arseniy Yatseniuk, leader of NGO Front of Changes said live on regional radio in the town of Pavlohrad in Dnipropetrovsk.
KIEV, Sept. 1 – The Cabinet of Ministers has selected the rather risky approach of strengthening the state's debt dependency to realize its populist policies, according to a posting on the website of the Ukrainian president.
KIEV, Sept. 1 – President Viktor Yushchenko expects that the government will resume work on amendments to the 2008 national budget, after which its revenues target would be increased by some 10%, from UAH221 billion to UAH243-244 billion, according to the first deputy head of the presidential secretariat, Oleksandr Shlapak.