PARIS, Nov. 26 - A Ukrainian film-maker freed in a prisoner swap after four years in a Russian jail warned Europe against growing friendly with Moscow as he received an EU human rights prize on Tuesday, Reuters reported.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he thinks the U.S. should investigate a conspiracy theory — debunked by American intelligence services — that Ukraine, not Russia, hacked the Democratic National Committee's computer server in 2016, NPR reported.

KYIV, Nov 25 – Ukrainians positively evaluate the first steps of the activities of President Volodymyr Zelensky and his team, according to the results of a sociological study by the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation together with the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) conducted from November 4 to November 19.

KYIV, Nov 26 – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has signed the law on amending certain legislative acts of Ukraine regarding the confiscation of illegal assets of persons authorized to perform the functions of the state or local governance, and punishment for the acquisition of such assets (No. 263-IX), the presidential press service reports.

KHARKIV, Nov 23 – President Petro Poroshenko and his Polish colleague Andrzej Duda plan to visit Kharkiv in the middle of December, governor of Kharkiv Regional State Administration Yulia Svitlychna reported.

KYIV, Nov. 25 - Separatist lawmakers in eastern Ukraine on Saturday appointed an interim chief to replace their beleaguered leader in an apparent palace coup, The Associated Press reported.

KYIV, Nov 23 – Legislation providing for the presumed consent in the new draft of the bill on transplantation will give a positive impulse to the development of healthcare in Ukraine, Boris Todurov, Head of the Health Ministry's Heart Institute, said.

KIEV, Nov. 24 – Parliament has amended the Tax Code and changed the conditions of calculating the sale price of natural gas for royalties for the use of deposits during gas production.

MOSCOW, Nov. 25 – Ukraine's ban on air transit plays little role for Russian commercial aviation, the Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsiya) said in a report.

KIEV, Nov. 26 - Parliament has passed bill No. 2844 on lifting regulatory barriers to developing industrial parks.

A total of 266 lawmakers supported the bill at second reading on Tuesday.

"Support of industrial parks is a real tool to attract investment in the real economic sector – into the processing industry where jobs are created and taxes are paid," one of the authors of the bill, Viktor Halasiuk (Oleh Liashko's Radical Party) said.