KIEV, March 26 – A top Kiev official, who led a snow emergency response over the past four days, resigned on Tuesday in the first political fallout following the worst snowstorm in a century.

KIEV, March 23 – The European Union supports Ukraine's efforts to move towards forming a market oriented price for its gas and is willing to participate in trilateral discussions on upgrading the Ukrainian gas transportation system, EU Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy Stefan Fule said during a meeting with Ukrainian Fuel and Energy Minister Yuriy Boyko in Brussels late on Thursday.

KIEV, March 23 – President Viktor Yanukovych has upgraded the list of national projects and expanded the powers of the State Agency for Investment and Management of National Projects of Ukraine, the head of the agency, Vladyslav Kaskiv, said on Friday, while commenting on a presidential instruction given on March 22.

KIEV, March 26 - A consignment of enriched uranium - enough to make a nuclear weapon, according to a U.S. expert - rumbled out of a Ukrainian railway depot late on Saturday bound for Russia, a move designed to coincide with an international summit on nuclear security, Reuters reported.

KIEV, March 26 – Newly appointed Economy Minister Petro Poroshenko on Monday sought to ease trade tensions with Moscow, and said that Ukraine may benefit from Russia’s joining the World Trade Organization later this year.

TOKYO, March 26 – Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has called on Japanese businessmen to invest in a number of Ukrainian industries, including in the agricultural and nuclear energy sectors.

Speaking at a Japanese business forum in Tokyo on Thursday, she recalled that "Ukraine has a third of the world's black soils."

MOSCOW, March 26 – Russia’s Gazprom slammed Ukraine's planned modernization of the country's gas transit system with financial support from the European Union, saying it "may have unpredictable consequences for the entire Eurasian space."

KIEV, March 26 - President Viktor Yushchenko said Thursday the government must lead the way to encourage investments in alternative and renewable fuel production to help reduce consumption of natural gas and crude oil.

KIEV, March 26 - The government may allocate 7.7 billion hryvnias to Naftogaz Ukrayiny in subsidies under a bill submitted to Parliament to compensate the company for the difference in prices of imported gas and domestic residential prices.

TOKYO, March 26 – Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, whose government been losing public support in the wake of Ukraine’s severe economic crisis, suggested on Thursday that she may support new constitutional amendments that further reduce presidential powers.