KIEV, May 26 – President Viktor Yanukovych traveled to Russia on Sunday for a surprise meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to discuss urgent trade issues, Yanukovych’s press service reported.

KIEV, May 26 – Ukraine has failed to achieve notable results in its fight against corruption, but it is taking positive steps in reforming the system of state management, according to an annual report by the European Commission on the implementation of the European Neighbourhood Policy in Ukraine.

KIEV, May 26 – Strong international pressure continued to build on President Viktor Yanukovych on Thursday in response to a brief detention of opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko by the authorities earlier this week.

KIEV, May 26 – President Viktor Yanukovych on Thursday set a deadline of the end of July for the government to hike utilities tariffs, warning that the failure to comply would force him to take action.

KIEV, May 26 – Russia still wants to see Ukraine in the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan and a single economic space Sergei Glazyev, the secretary at large of the Customs Union, has said.

KIEV, May 26 – New Ukrainian-Russian agreements being prepared by the Ukrainian authorities will lead to the loss of a considerable part of Ukraine's strategic property, opposition BYT leader Yulia Tymoshenko has claimed.

KIEV, May 26 – Ukraine should cut its budget deficit this year in order to reduce external borrowing and to win confidence from foreign investors, Deputy Prime Minister Serhiy Tyhypko said Wednesday.

KIEV, May 26 – Olekskiy Pukach, a former top police officer alleged to have killed journalist Heorhiy Gongadze in 2000, said investigators must question “senior officials” in connection with the case, Ukrayinska Pravda reported Wednesday, citing a source.

KIEV, May 26 – The People’s Committee for Defense of Ukraine, the country’s opposition body, on Wednesday urged the International Monetary Fund to postpone lending to the government until it launches economic reforms and improves democracy.

KIEV, May 26 – President Viktor Yushchenko jointly with representatives of gambling business plans this week to draw up and submit to Parliament proposals on a law that temporarily bans the gambling business, Yushchenko said to representatives of gambling business demonstrating near Ukrainian House in Kiev on Monday.