KIEV, Oct. 24 – The Ukrainian government on Wednesday banned any increases in tariffs and prices that are regulated by the state through the end of the year in an attempt to curb accelerating inflation.

KIEV, Oct. 24 ??“ President Viktor Yushchenko has proposed that MPs amend the law on banks and allow the opening in Ukraine of foreign bank branches with at least EUR150 million of statutory capital.

KIEV, Oct. 24 - Ukraine and Russia have agreed to increase crude oil supplies to Ukrainian oil refineries, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych said Tuesday after talks with his Russian counterpart Mikhail Fradkov.

KIEV, Oct. 24 - RosUkrEnergo, a Swiss-registered natural gas trader controlled by the Russian state gas giant Gazprom, has pledged to supply up to 55 billion cubic meters of natural gas to Ukraine in 2007, the company said Tuesday.

KIEV, Oct. 24 ??“ The Ukrainian government, for the fourth time over the past four months, revised downwards the country??™s economic growth forecast, now seeing the expansion at 3.5% vs. 4% on year in 2005.

KIEV, Oct. 24 ??“ Valentyna Semeniuk, the head of the State Property Fund, submitted her resignation to President Viktor Yushchenko Friday, but withdrew it hours later, a person familiar with the situation said Monday.

KIEV, Oct. 24 ??” The election last month of Moshe Reuven Azman as chief rabbi of Ukraine has apparently divided the country??™s Jewish population and caused a political uproar to boot.

KYIV, Sept 24 - Ukrainian troops engaged in hand-to-hand combat as they drove Russian forces out of a huge processing plant in the town of Vovchansk in Ukraine’s northeast that had been occupied for four months, officials said Tuesday.

KYIV, Sept 24 – The G7+ countries have mobilized more than $4 billion to support Ukraine’s energy sector since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion, and the countries are working together every day to help Ukraine survive the winter, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said.

KYIV, Sept 22 – In Washington, in the presence of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, memoranda of cooperation and development of joint projects were signed between the Ministry for Strategic Industries of Ukraine, the Global Defense & Industry Alliance, the Arizona Defense & Industry Coalition, and the Utah Aerospace and Defense Association.