KIEV, Jan. 27 – President Viktor Yanukovych held fresh talks with opposition leaders on Monday to prepare for a crunch session of Parliament at which the president and his allies will be under pressure to make major concessions amid mass unrest.

KIEV, Jan. 27 – Russia’s state-controlled energy giant Gazprom slapped Ukraine with a $7 billion penalty for natural gas it had never imported in 2012 claiming the country had violated its ‘take-or-pay’ obligation by reducing imports.

KIEV. Jan. 27 - Ukraine will next week pay for Russian natural gas supplied in January, and will partially rely on borrowed funds, acting Finance Minister Ihor Umanskiy said Wednesday.

KIEV, Jan. 27 – Parliamentary Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn said Wednesday he was skeptical that Serhiy Tyhypko would ever become prime minister, no matter who wins the presidential election next month.

KIEV, Jan. 27 – There is a “huge potential” for the dismissal of Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko at an emergency session of Parliament on Thursday, Parliamentary Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn said Wednesday.

KIEV, Jan. 25 - Ukrainian political scientists differ on the prospects for Ukraine's foreign policy in the event of Regions leader Viktor Yanukovych winning the second round of the presidential elections in Ukraine.

KIEV, Jan. 26 – The fire that broke out at a corrugated cardboard plant in Luhansk on Tuesday has almost completely destroyed the plant's industrial and auxiliary premises on an area of around 8,000 square meters, reports the plant's owner and director general.

KIEV, Jan. 27 – Ukraine will return UAH 800 million of bid deposits to two Ukrainian bidders in a tender to sell the Odessa Port-Side Plant, which failed to take place, but not until the company is privatized, according to Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

WARSAW, Jan. 26 - Natural gas deliveries through Belarus to Poland were reduced to the normal contracted amount, which, considering the continued shortage of supplies through Ukraine, means total deliveries from the eastern direction are at 76% of the planned amounts, Polish gas monopolist PGNiG said in a statement Monday.

KIEV, Jan. 27 – Ukraine’s budget revenue fell 56% from the original forecast in January, reflecting slowing economic activity due to ongoing economic crisis, the State Treasury reported.