KIEV, April 24 ??“ Ukraine is likely to join the World Trade Organization later this year, Economy Minister Anatoliy Kinakh.

KIEV, April 24 ??“ Foreign Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk will visit Oslo, Norway, on April 27 to take part in a meeting of the Ukraine-NATO commission at the level of foreign ministers as a part of an informal meeting between NATO foreign ministers.

KIEV, April 22 ??“ Fourteen people, including one child, were injured after two explosions had almost at the same time hit two different supermarket stores in Kharkiv on Saturday, the Emergency Ministry reported.

KIEV, April 24 ??“ Ukraine will probably begin within the next three months construction of the $1 billion state-of-the-art cover over the damaged reactor at Chornobyl nuclear power plant, President Viktor Yushchenko said Monday.

KIEV, April 21 ??“ Luhansk region governor Henadiy Moskal, one of President Viktor Yushchenko??™s toughest managers, submitted his resignation, Interfax reported on Friday citing a report from the local council.

SEVASTOPOL, April 21 ??“ Russia rules out any talks with Ukraine over duration and price of stationing of its naval fleet in Sevastopol, a senior Russian diplomat said.

KIEV, April 21 - Naftogaz Ukrayiny, Ukraine's national oil and gas company, signed an agreement with Deutsche Bank on Thursday to borrow $300 million, the company said in a statement.

KIEV, April 21 - TNK-BP, Russia's third-largest oil company, Thursday agreed to temporarily reduce retail prices of the gasoline and diesel fuel that it sells throughout Ukraine, ending a sharp four-day standoff with the government.

KIEV, April 21 ??“ Volodymyr Stelmakh, the governor of the National Bank of Ukraine, will be summoned to Parliament Friday to explain the recent dramatic appreciation of the hryvnia, which has caused panic on the market.

KIEV, April 22 ??“ The hryvnia exchange rate is in for some further adjustment, according to Ukrainian bankers questioned by Interfax-Ukraine.