KIEV, Sept. 24 – A lawyer for Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko said Monday that President Viktor Yanukovych, his family members and closest political allies should be targeted with U.S. visa ban for their role in her imprisonment.

NEW YORK, Sept. 24 – President Viktor Yushchenko completed his visit to the United States on Thursday without meeting U.S. President Barack Obama, whom he had been seeking to warn about the rising Russian threat in the region and perhaps bolster his domestic political standing in the process.

KIEV, Sept. 23 – Prime Ministers of Ukraine and Russia Yulia Tymoshenko and Vladimir Putin plan to discuss cooperation between their two countries in the engineering sector and the innovation sphere as part of the meeting of heads of the CIS governments in Yalta scheduled for Nov. 20.

KIEV, Sept. 24 – The key topic of the sixth Yalta European Strategy (YES) summit, the largest nongovernmental forum for Ukraine's strategic relations with the world, which is to be held from September 24 to September 27 in Crimea, is to be the post-crisis development of Ukraine and the world, the YES press service has reported.

KIEV, Sept. 24 - Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Wednesday again pledged to remove RosUkrEnergo as Ukraine’s only supplier of natural gas imports starting in 2009 as part a hoped-for gas deal with Russia.

KIEV, Sept. 24 – A week after flatly ruling out coalition talks with President Viktor Yushchenko’s Our Ukraine-People’s Self-defense, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s lawmakers indicated Wednesday such talks were possible and could be successful.

KIEV, Sept. 23 – Representatives of the New York Stock Exchange will soon visit Ukraine to develop joint means of cooperation, according to an agreement reached by President Viktor Yushchenko and NYSE Euronext CEO Duncan Niederauer.

KIEV, Sept. 21 – The Economy Ministry has put oil on the list of goods, the re-export of which requires permission, in order to increase the volume of its refining at Ukrainian oil refineries, Economy Minister Anatoliy Kinakh told the press on Thursday.

KIEV, Sept. 24 - Ukraine will spend around $600 million of its 2008 budget funds on preparations for the Euro 2012 soccer championship, deputy finance minister Sergei Rybak said Monday.

LONDON, Sept. 24 – Ukraine’s former prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, flew into London last week to meet another former Prime Minister: Baroness Margaret Thatcher, with Tymoshenko vowing to drag her country kicking and screaming away from the Russian bear and into the European fold if she returns to office after elections next weekend, according to Times Online.