KIEV, July 31 – Parliament has passed a government draft law proposing to exempt companies implementing investment projects in priority economic sectors from obligatory profit tax until 2018.

KIEV, July 31 – Parliamentary Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn, ending his almost one-month-long resistance, on Tuesday signed a controversial bill aimed at elevating the status of the Russian language in Ukraine.

KIEV, July 29 – The government is not able to keep prices down, it is loosing control over basic processes in the economy and is failing to carry out reforms, according to Natalia Korolevska, MP from the BYT-Batkivschyna faction and head of the parliamentary committee for industrial and regulatory policies and entrepreneurship.

KIEV, July 29 — President Viktor Yanukovych’s administration on Friday denied allegations it was orchestrating the trial of opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, and said it will investigate a mystery email that has indicated otherwise.

KIEV, July 31 – Thirty four coal miners were killed and six injured Friday in two separate accidents at coalmines in Luhansk and Donetsk regions in the latest setback to Ukraine’s plans to expand coal output.

President Viktor Yanukovych suspended his vacation in Crimea and traveled to the regions on Friday to visit the crippled coalmines, urging a thorough investigation into both accidents.

KIEV, July 30 - The Ukrainian government will not agree to the Odessa-Brody oil pipeline project being operated by offshore companies, the country's Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko told a press conference on Wednesday.

KIEV, July 30 – Ukraine's government intends to support the current investor in Arcelor Mittal Kryviy Rih (formerly Kryvorizhstal), Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said.

KIEV, July 30 – Ukraine's government does not intend to reject a loan from the Japanese Bank for International Cooperation for the construction of a terminal at Boryspil Airport, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said.

KIEV, July 31 - UEFA President Michel Platini urged the international community on Thursday to back Ukraine and Poland in organizing Euro 2012 despite doubts the ex-communist states, especially Ukraine, are able to do so, Reuters reported.

KIEV, July 31 – Parliament voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to support President Viktor Yushchenko’s amendments to the 2008 budget in a bill that also incorporates amendments submitted by the government and by opposition groups.