KIEV, June 25 - Ukraine asked the IMF on Wednesday to take into account the extra financial burden of fighting an insurgency in the east as it decides on further disbursement of aid under a $17 billion bailout program, Reuters reported.

BRUSSELS, June 25 - Russia must take "concrete" steps to resolve the Ukraine crisis, US Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday, warning Moscow could easily reinstate its parliamentary approval for military intervention, AFP reported.

KIEV, June 24 - Ukraine on Monday condemned the shooting of three Ukrainian climbers by militant gunmen in Pakistan and demanded compensation for the victims’ families.

KIEV, June 21 - Germany's foreign minister urged Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych to let his jailed opponent Yulia Tymoshenko go to Germany for medical treatment and he warned against the use of "selective justice" in the ex-Soviet republic, Reuters reported.

KIEV, June 25 - Georgia and Ukraine share a common danger which consists in Russia's plans to create "a transformed USSR," i.e. the Eurasian Union, Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze said in an interview with the Dzerkalo Tyzhnia (Mirror Weekly) newspaper (ZN.UA).

KIEV, June 25 – Ukraine’s government won’t push for a constitutional amendment to make Russian the second state language in Ukraine, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said Monday, reversing an earlier push by the ruling Regions Party.

KIEV, June 22 – The united opposition wants to eliminate "the total monopoly" of the Ukrainian authorities in politics and the economy, as well as simplify the tax system to the maximum, said Arseniy Yatseniuk, Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense parliamentary faction MP and head of the Front for Change Party.

KIEV, June 23 – Parliament on June 23 approved a law which restricts currency lending to individuals, according to Stanislav Arzhevitin, first deputy head of the parliamentary committee for finance and banking activities and the head of the council of the Association of Ukrainian Banks (AUB).

KIEV, June 25 - President Viktor Yushchenko has signed a law on banning the gambling business in Ukraine.

Parliament, on June 11 overrode a presidential veto of the law on banning the gambling business in Ukraine. Parliament refused to support presidential proposals on the law.

KIEV, June 25 - Russia’s refusal to renegotiate controversial natural gas agreements signed with Ukraine in January contradicts the “spirit of partnership and mutual respect,” President Viktor Yushchenko’s top energy security aide said Thursday.