KIEV, Jan. 23 – The International Monetary Fund could continue credit cooperation with Ukraine if there is a tightening of budgetary policy, Ukrainian Presidential Secretariat First Deputy head Oleksandr Shlapak said at a briefing on Friday.

KIEV, Jan. 23 - Russian natural gas supplies to Poland via Ukrainian gas pipelines resumed at full capacity following lower-than-planned supplies over the past several days, UkrTransGaz, the gas shipping arm of Naftogaz Ukrayiny, reported Friday.

KIEV, Jan. 23 - Ukraine’s top security body under President Viktor Yushchenko has delayed for a week its scheduled meeting to review the recent natural gas deal with Russia, an official said Friday.

KIEV, Jan. 23 - Oleh Dubyna, the head of Naftogaz Ukrayiny, Ukraine’s state gas company, was hospitalized in a serious condition after a suffering heart problem, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko announced Friday.

KIEV, Jan. 24 – Ukraine’s government agencies on Friday appeared to be split over the ownership of $2.3 billion worth of natural gas in the country’s underground gas tanks, jeopardizing the recent Russian-Ukrainian gas deal.

KIEV, Jan. 25 - Former WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko will return to the ring in April, more than two years after injuries forced his retirement.

MOSCOW, Jan. 24 - Ukraine's Motor Sich, the largest producer of aircraft engines in the former Soviet Union, will supply its upgraded AI-25TLSh air engines to China, Viacheslav Bohuslayev, the president at Motor Sich, said.

KIEV, Jan. 25 ??“ The controversial law reducing powers of President Viktor Yushchenko may be officially published on Friday, Parliament Speaker Oleksandr Moroz said Thursday.

KIEV, Jan. 24 - U.S. companies Boeing and Orbital Launch System Group are considering joining a project to develop Ukraine's first telecommunications satellite.

KIEV, Jan. 25 ??“ Fifty-three people died in Ukraine during the past 24 hours as a result of extreme cold, bringing to 130 the number of deaths since temperatures plunged last week, the Health Ministry said Wednesday.