KIEV, March 31 – The submission to the Central Election Commission (CEC) of documents for the registration of candidates for president of Ukraine in early presidential elections has ended.

KIEV, March 31 - Ukrainian presidential candidate MP Petro Poroshenko believes that Ukraine should hold a dialogue with Russia and seek compromise on every issue but Crimea and integration with the European Union.

KIEV, March 31 - The International Monetary Fund should be ready to hand Ukraine the first $3 billion of a new aid package next month, the Fund's top European official said on Monday, drawing a line under two failed programs with the country in recent years.

KIEV, March 31 - Ukraine has hit back strongly at Russian calls for it to federalize its state structure and make Russian an official state language, saying its proposals were aimed at the break-up of Ukraine.

SIMFEROPOL, March 31 - Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev flaunted Russia's grip on Crimea by flying to the region and holding a government meeting there on Monday, angering Ukraine and defying Western demands to hand the peninsula back to Kiev.

KIEV, March 29 – Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov and Hungarian President Janos Ader have discussed the issues related to the protection of the population from the effects of possible flooding, the Ukrainian government's press service reported.

NEW YORK, March 31 – The European Union should sign the political association and free trade agreement with Ukraine in November and then immediately launch targeted sanctions against top officials responsible for jailing of opposition leaders, a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, said.

KIEV, March 31 – Gazprom on Saturday pledged to investigate reports of Ukraine starting alternative imports of natural gas from Europe after alleging the country may have been using a “fraudulent scheme.”

KIEV, March 29 – The construction of a new safe Shelter facility at Chernobyl nuclear power plant will cost EUR 990 million, chairman of the State Agency for the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Management Volodymyr Kholosha said at a press conference with representatives of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in Kiev on Tuesday.

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, March 31 - Ukraine is a reliable and effective partner for foreign investors, President Viktor Yanukovych told Bruneian businessmen in Bandar Seri Begawan on Thursday.

Yanukovych said he hoped that the interests of Bruneian businessmen in Ukraine would continue to grow.