KIEV, April 26 - Moscow and Kiev have enough topics for discussion, and their relationship crisis is over, said Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

"One thing is absolutely certain: our relations are through the crisis, both inter-personal and economic one," Medvedev said at a meeting with Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON, April 26 - The issue of nuclear safety should be treated as seriously as the issue of nuclear weapons, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in an article published in the New York Times.

KIEV, April 27 - The defense lawyers of Ihor Didenko, a deputy chairman of Naftogaz Ukrayiny, and Anatoliy Makarenko, a former chief of the Ukrainian State Customs Service, believe the criminal cases against their clients could be combined with a criminal case against former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko regarding Ukrainian-Russian gas supply contracts concluded in 2009.

KIEV, April 27 – The Foreign Ministry has issued a recommendation that Ukrainians refrain from traveling to Syria due to the worsening of the security situation in the country.

The ministry also expressed concern about violence that has lead to deaths of protestors in Syria.

KIEV, April 26 – Despite the Ukrainian Finance Ministry’s assertion that the event will take place next month, the International Monetary Fund has not yet decided on the date of its mission's visit to Ukraine, IMF Resident Representative in Ukraine Max Alier said.

NEW YORK, April 27 – Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has sued Ukrainian businessman Dmytro Firtash, a close ally of the President Viktor Yanukovych, in U.S. court alleging fraud, human rights violations and racketeering.

KIEV, April 26 – President Viktor Yanukovych on Monday briefed President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Thomas Mirow about the state of work at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and noted the importance of the bank's participation in these activities.

KIEV, April 27 – Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Tuesday called on international community to condemn what she called an assault on democracy and freedom of speech by President Viktor Yanukovych.

KIEV, April 27 – President Viktor Yanukovych on Tuesday reversed Ukraine’s official stance on Holodomor, a manmade “famine” in the early 1930s that killed millions of Ukrainians, calling it a “consequence” of totalitarian regime, not genocide.

KIEV, April 27 – Thousands of protesters, smoke bombs and chicken eggs thrown in Parliament did not stop President Viktor Yanukovych’s majority from approving a controversial deal extending the Russian navy’s stay in Ukraine by 25 years.