KIEV, Jan. 31 – The Foreign Ministry has called on tour operators to inform Ukrainian citizens who have purchased or plan to purchase tourist vouchers for Egypt about the ministry's recommendation not to travel to this country until the stabilization of the situation, as well as about the unstable situation in Egypt that could threaten their health or lives.

KIEV, Jan. 31 – The abolition of a package of anticorruption laws in Ukraine may signal that the Ukrainian authorities are moving in the wrong direction, President of the Council of Europe Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) Drago Kos has said.

KIEV, Feb. 1 – Ukrainian lawmakers on Tuesday changed the constitution to postpone the next parliamentary election by 18 months and the next presidential election by two months, benefiting President Viktor Yanukovych and his allies.

KIEV, Jan. 29 - Regions leader Viktor Yanukovych on Friday promised to seek larger volumes of trade with Russia if he defeats Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in the February 7 runoff presidential elections but warned he would insist that Ukrainian-Russian trade be based on World Trade Organization principles.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 – US Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy Richard Morningstar has said he hopes comprehensive energy sector reform will be one of the main priorities of the next president of Ukraine, no matter who is elected.

DAVOS, Feb. 1 – The endorsement of the budget, the toughening of fiscal policy and restoration of political stability are the necessary conditions for Ukraine's successful return to the foreign borrowing market, according to Ihor Mitiukov, the head of the Ukrainian office of Morgan Stanley and a former Ukrainian finance minister.

DAVOS (Switzerland), Feb. 1 – Sergiy Tyhypko, who placed third in the first round of the presidential election in Ukraine on January 17, has again said that he will not support either of presidential candidates in the February 7 run-off vote.

KIEV, Feb. 1 – Representatives of five parliamentary factions have proposed to establish a symmetrical visa regime with EU countries, the United States, Japan, Switzerland, Lichtenstein, Canada, Andorra, Vietnam, Island, Monaco, Norway and San Marino in response to "unfair policies" towards Ukraine.

KIEV, Feb. 1 – Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said Monday she was “shocked” by opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych’s plans to help Russia build a natural gas pipeline that would bypass Ukraine on the way to Europe.

KIEV, Feb. 1 – Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko called opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych a “banal coward” on Monday after he had failed to show up at presidential debates broadcast live by the Pershiy state-owned television.