KIEV, March 22 – President Viktor Yanukovych will meet with world leaders during the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul, said Liovochkin, head of the presidential administration.

KIEV, March 23 – Petro Poroshenko, a pro-Western former foreign minister, on Friday accepted the post of economy minister amid signs President Viktor Yanukovych is trying to repair his government’s worsening reputation at the European Union.

KIEV, March 25 – Ukraine matters enormously to the EU as a leader in the region, but the country needs concrete reform actions rather than encouraging words, European Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighborhood Policy Stefan Fule said at a meeting with members of the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee in Brussels, the Delegation of the European Union to Ukraine reported.

KIEV, March 25 - A section of Ukrainian natural gas pipeline carrying Russian gas to the European Union was damaged by fire late Wednesday, forcing the authorities to re-route gas supplies through other pipelines.

European gas supplies had not been affected by the fire, thanks to the quick re-routing, the emergency ministry reported Thursday.

KIEV, March 25 – President Viktor Yanukovych, in his first speech addressing defense issues, said Thursday that Ukraine will come up with a broad initiative aimed at strengthening security in Europe.

MOSCOW, March 25 – Ukraine and Russia on Thursday failed to reach a compromise for lowering natural gas prices, but agreed to continue discussions next month to explore a range of unspecified options.

KIEV, March 25 - Consumer confidence in Ukraine in February improved in the light of the stabilization on the labor market, reads a press release of the International Center of Policy Studies (ICPS).

"In February 2009, consumer confidence stopped plummeting started in September 2009... at the end of winter 2009 consumer confidence slightly improved, which is evidence of a rise in the consumer confidence index by 0.5 notches to 42.3.

KIEV, March 25 – The International Monetary Fund will probably send a team to Ukraine next week to see if the country qualifies for a $1.85 billion installment within its $16.4 billion rescue package, President Viktor Yushchenko said Wednesday.

TOKYO, March 25 – The prime ministers of Japan and Ukraine on Wednesday hailed a deal under which the eastern European country sells to Japan rights to pollute and uses the proceeds to buy Tokyo's latest green technologies, AFP reported.

KIEV, March 25 – Ukraine’s opposition Regions Party on Wednesday unveiled plans for massive street protests throughout the country on Friday targeting Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s government for its failure to ease the country’s severe economic crisis.