KIEV, Nov. 22 – President Viktor Yanukovych will make official visits to the United Arab Emirates and Qatar on November 25-28, according to presidential adviser Andriy Honcharuk.
KIEV, Nov. 25 – Following the collapse of recent natural gas price talks in Moscow, Ukraine said it will further cut imports of gas from Russia, replacing it with energy imported from elsewhere.
KIEV, Nov. 25 – Leaders of opposition groups Friday boycotted a meeting with Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, signaling that work of newly elected Parliament may be disrupted as the government faces looming fiscal and currency crises.
KIEV, Nov. 25 - Ukraine and Egypt will discuss supplies of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to a terminal that is expected to be built in Ukraine, the government’s press service reported.
KIEV, Nov. 25 – President Viktor Yanukovych’s administration on Thursday joined talks with protesters after their meeting with the government on Wednesday failed to produce tangible results.
KIEV, Nov. 25 - President Viktor Yushchenko told the government Wednesday to “urgently” continue talks with Russia to amend natural gas agreement towards lowering gas prices and hiking fee for transit of gas to the European Union.
KIEV, Nov. 25 – Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said she will show up in Parliament on Thursday to personally persuade lawmakers to override a presidential veto for the release of one billion hryvnias to fight flu.
KIEV, Nov. 25 - Ukraine sees $100 as a fair price for 1,000 cubic meters of natural gas in 2009, a top aide to President Viktor Yushchenko said Tuesday.
The price target is a quarter of what Russian natural gas giant Gazprom has threatened to charge Ukraine next year in case the country fails to pay $2.4 billion gas debt.
KIEV, Nov. 25 - President Viktor Yushchenko will take steps to make sure Ukraine pays its debts for Russian natural gas supplies if the government fails to solve the problem by Thursday, a top official said Tuesday.
KIEV, Nov. 25 – Panic is sweeping the country as the hryvnia faces steep downward pressure, Volodymyr Stelmakh, the governor of the National Bank of Ukraine, said Tuesday.
