KIEV, Oct. 24 – Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said he hopes that gas tariffs for households will not be raised.

"We are set to agree with Russia on an acceptable price for gas. My last meeting with the Russian prime minister gives reason to believe that the agreement is rather close," he said an interview with Ukrainian television's 1+1 TV Channel late on Sunday, when asked when Ukrainians should expect a rise in gas tariffs.

KIEV, Oct. 21 – The visit of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to Ukraine is not likely to affect relations between Kiev and Washington in any way, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Ukrainian President Andriy Honcharuk told the Dzerkalo Tyzhnia (Mirror Weekly) newspaper.

KIEV, Oct. 22 – Boryspil Airport’s Terminal F will start work as of November 1, the Ukrainian Transport and Communications Minister said.

“UIA (Ukraine International Airlines) will start working there as of November 1 and it [the terminal] will be more engaged,” Transport and Communications Minister Kostiantyn Yefymenko said at a briefing in Kiev on Thursday. “40% of flights from Terminal B will be transferred there by the end of the year.”

KIEV, Oct. 24 - A group of opposition lawmakers uncovered a massive cache of undocumented ballots printed at a facility in Kharkiv, suggesting that preparation for fraud is underway ahead of Ukraine’s Oct. 31 local elections.

KIEV, Oct. 24 – In a move that effectively buries an initiative of Yulia Tymoshenko, the likely new prime minister, for the creation of professional army in 2008, President Viktor Yushchenko signed a decree ordering a military draft next year.

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.