KIEV, Feb. 27 - If the amount of Russian gas flowing through Ukraine's gas-transport system goes down, the country can pump Central Asian and Azerbaijani gas to Europe, prime ministerial press secretary Vitaliy Lukyanenko said.

KIEV, Feb. 27 - A Ukrainian court sentenced a key political ally of jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko to four years in prison on Monday for embezzlement and abuse of office.

MOSCOW, Feb. 27 - The security services of Russia and Ukraine report foiling a plan to assassinate Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin that was organized by an underground movement in the North Caucasus region, Russian state television reported Monday.

KIEV, Feb. 24 – The Interfax-Ukraine news agency has received over 5,000 questions as part of a TV project, entitled "A Conversation with the Country," Interfax-Ukraine Director General Oleksandr Martynenko has said.

KIEV, Feb. 25 – A package of anti-corruption laws is to be adopted in Parliament in the first half of 2011, according to President Viktor Yanukovych.

"It is to be endorsed in the first half of the year, and I give you a guarantee that it would start working by the end of this [parliamentary] session," he said during the Conversation with the Country television project on Friday.

KIEV, Feb. 25 – Ukraine’s state coal sector definitely has a future, said President Viktor Yanukovych.

"Of course, Ukraine will make use of its opportunities to extract coal, and the coal industry will have a future for sure," he said during the Conversation with the Country television project on Friday.

KIEV, Feb. 25 – The Ukrainian authorities plan to continue fighting inflation, according to President Viktor Yanukovych.

"We should at least be in the middle of [the other countries in terms of inflation].

KIEV, Feb. 25 – Incumbent President Viktor Yanukovych could win the presidential election if it took place this Sunday, according to a phone poll conducted by Kiev Gorshenin Institute of Management Issues.

KIEV, Feb. 27 - Galyna Kolotnytska, once described as Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi's “voluptuous” personal nurse, returned to Ukraine Sunday on a plane that evacuated 122 Ukrainians from Libya.

KIEV, Feb. 27 – The Ukrainian government has made urgent payments totaling 2.4 billion hryvnias, or $480 million, over the past two days to clear outstanding debt for Russian gas supplies, a top government official said Wednesday.