KIEV, Sept. 26 - The Ukrainian government is working on legislation that paves the way for selling of hundreds of state-owned assets previously considered strategic, a newspaper reported Wednesday.

KIEV, Sept. 23 – Parliament has passed a law on documents confirming the identity and citizenship of Ukraine and proposing to introduce plastic identity cards.

A total of 257 MPs out of the 366 registered in the session hall on Friday voted for the law.

MOSCOW, Sept. 26 – Russia has given up the idea of engaging Ukraine into the Customs Union and is ready to discuss the establishment of a tripartite consortium on the management of the Ukrainian gas transportation system (GTS) involving the European Union, Russian Kommersant newspaper wrote on Monday.

KIEV, Sept. 26 – Talks between the government and protesters over a controversial bill reducing social spending collapsed with the growing possibility that street protests may resume, Radio Liberty reported Monday, citing a protest leader.

KIEV, Sept. 26 - Russia has agreed to join a trilateral joint venture, also involving a European entity, to operate Ukraine’s massive natural gas transportation network, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said Monday.

The joint venture would improve reliability of gas transportation from Russia via Ukraine to Europe, Azarov said in a statement released by the government.

CHERNOBYL, Sept. 23 - Ukraine hopes to secure funding from international donors needed to continue and finish the construction of a new safe confinement for the sarcophagus for the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, by April 2011, said First Deputy Prime Minister Andriy Kliuyev.

KIEV, Sept. 23 – Ukraine is moving steadfastly along the road of European integration, Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.

NEW YORK, Sept. 24 - Ukraine urges United Nation member states to follow its example in global nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation, resident Viktor Yanukovych said.

"Concrete steps must be urgently made to lower the risk of the proliferation of nuclear materials and know-how.

KIEV, Sept. 26 - A 19-year-old Israeli man was stabbed to death in Uman, Ukraine, late Saturday night, during an altercation with local residents, The Jerusalem Post reported.

BRUSSELS, Sept. 24 - Ukraine's entry in Energy Community, a pact that ensures countries share the same legal framework for energy investments, will enhance Europe's security of gas supply, the European Commission said Friday.