KIEV, Oct. 23 – Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk expects that the new government will be quickly formed after the parliamentary election, which will allow for the holding of negotiations in November with the International Monetary Fund on the expansion of the Stand-By Arrangement.

KIEV, Oct. 23 - Ukraine used 17% less natural gas this year and the government plans more energy saving measures and coal imports to survive the winter, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said.

STRASSBOURG, Oct. 23 - EU lawmakers on Thursday took the latest step in efforts to bring Kiev closer to Europe, extending Ukrainian exporters' open access to the European Union until a trade deal takes effect at the end of next year, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Oct. 23 – Ukraine's GDP growth should accelerate in the second half of 2013, First Deputy Prime Minister Serhiy Arbuzov said.

"It is expected that in the second half of the year the pace of economic processes will improve, but the country will not manage to fully cover the influence of weak demand. This year GDP will grow," Arbuzov said in comments that were sent to Interfax-Ukraine on Tuesday, October 22.

BRUSSELS, Oct. 22 – The European Parliament may recommend the EU Council should sign the Association Agreement with Ukraine if Kiev meets all the necessary conditions.

This is stated in the draft resolution entitled "The European Neighborhood Policy: towards a strengthening of the partnership. Position of the European Parliament on the 2012 reports," which will be put on vote at a meeting of the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Wednesday. MEP Jacek Saryusz-Wolski will present the document.

KIEV, Oct. 23 - Ukraine will increase grain exports by 36% within the next eight years, capitalizing on the expected increase in output of wheat and corn, Agrarian Policy and Food Minister Mykola Prysiazhniuk said Wednesday.

KHARKIV, Oct. 22 – Serhiy Vlasenko, a defense lawyer for former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, has described as absurd the decision of Kiev's Economic Court of Appeals to suspend the consideration of an appeal on the payment of the debt of the United Energy Systems of Ukraine (UESU) Corporation to the Russian Defense Ministry.

NOVO-OGARYOVO, Oct. 22 – There is no alternative to preserving the traditional friendship and neighborliness between Russia and Ukraine regardless of the political situation, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

NOVO-OGARYOVO, Oct. 23 – Ukraine and Russia are planning to lift restrictions in mutual trade and exempt customs duties on the border, Ukrainian Economic Development and Trade Minister Petro Poroshenko said.

KIEV, Oct. 23 - President Viktor Yanukovych said Tuesday he will again travel to Russia in November for another round of natural gas talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.