KIEV, Aug. 30 ??“ The Ukrainian government plans to spend privatization receipts that will come in 2007 on investments projects, First Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Mykola Azarov said Wednesday.

KIEV, Aug. 30 - Ukraine hopes to double the country's gross domestic product within 10 years, Finance Minister Mykola Azarov said Wednesday.

KIEV, Aug. 31 - Some public schools in the Ukrainian capital will begin teaching Christian ethics this year in an experimental program aimed at reinforcing Ukraine??™s 1,000-year-old Christian heritage, the Associated Press reported Thursday citing city officials.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 ??” The U.S. government said Wednesday it was lifting trade sanctions that had been imposed on Ukraine almost four years ago as Kiev had finally made progress in cracking down on intellectual property piracy.

NEW YORK, Aug. 31- Ukraine's economic development and political situation have not improved as fast as expected after Viktor Yushchenko's victory in the presidential election, says Ralph Sueppel, an analyst from Merrill Lynch.

KIEV, Aug. 31 ??“ Petro Poroshenko, the top security advisor to President Viktor Yushchenko, said Wednesday he will travel to Moscow in September for talks over natural gas prices that Russia will charge Ukraine next year.

KIEV, Aug. 31 ??“ Tensions rose dramatically at Nikopol Ferroalloy Plant on Wednesday after a group of workers, led by billionaire businessman Viktor Pinchuk, resisted government-appointed managers and barred them from the company.

DONETSK, Aug. 31 - Zasiadko Mine lease enterprise (Donetsk) is planning this year to commission one of three power generating units using methane received from degassing coal beds.

KYIV, July 31 – Global military spending approached $2.3 trillion in 2023, while the increase in total military spending by almost 7% was the largest since 2009, according to data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).

KYIV, July 31 - Ukraine has received the first F-16 fighter jets that it has sought for months to fight back against an onslaught of Russian missile strikes, a U.S. official confirmed to The Associated Press.