KIEV, March 25 – If parliamentary elections in Ukraine were held now, 14.1% of Ukrainians would vote for the Petro Poroshenko Bloc, according to a public opinion survey conducted by the Razumkov Center sociological service.

KIEV, March 25 – The European Commission in its European Neighborhood Policy (ENP) in Ukraine Progress Report 2014 has recommended Ukraine conduct Constitutional reform, first of all, on decentralization.

KIEV, March 25 – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed into law the amendments to the Ukrainian law on joint stock companies, the presidential press service said.

KIEV, March 26 – Germany is ready to discuss a peacekeeping mission being dispatched to eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian ambassador to Germany Andriy Melnyk said, referring to a meeting between Parliament Speaker Volodymyr Hroisman and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier held in Berlin on Wednesday.

BRUSSELS, March 26 – The European Parliament, by an overwhelming majority, backed the disbursement of a EUR1.8 billion loan to help Ukraine out of economic recession.

WASHINGTON, March 26 - Russia's $3 billion holding of Ukrainian debt should be classified as 'official' debt, an IMF spokesman said on Thursday, weighing in on what has become a contentious issue in Kiev's economic situation, Reuters reported.

BRUSSELS, March 26 - International lenders are delaying plans to offer Ukraine billions of dollars on concerns Kiev cannot yet prove the cash will not vanish into a corrupt economy which EU officials fear could remain a "bottomless pit.”

KIEV, March 25 – The Cabinet of Ministers has extended the intergovernmental agreement of cooperation signed with the European Space Agency in January 2008 until 2019, the State Space Agency of Ukraine (SSAU) reported.

KIEV, March 26 – The adoption of a draft law on the occupied territories in the current form, which includes the blanket prohibition of economic operations in Crimea, will result in large losses for Ukrainian companies, the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine said in a letter to the chairman of the parliamentary committee for human rights, minority groups and international relations.

BRUSSELS, March 26 - The United States and the European Union agreed on Wednesday to work together to prepare possible tougher economic sanctions in response to Russia's behavior in Ukraine, including on the energy sector, and to make Europe less dependent on Russian gas.