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.

KIEV, Oct. 23 - Ukraine hopes to secure an International Monetary Fund loan without raising household gas and heating prices, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said on Tuesday.

The IMF froze the $15.2 billion loan to Ukraine in early 2011 after the government had refused to hike natural gas prices for households.

KIEV, Oct. 23 – President Viktor Yanukovych said Saturday a free trade agreement Ukraine recently signed with Russia and other CIS countries was not aimed against its European integration, adding the integration will continue.

KIEV, Oct. 21 – President Viktor Yanukovych has applied his veto to the Law on Identity Documents Proving Ukrainian Citizenship, which provides for introduction of identity and Ukrainian citizenship documents containing biometric data.

KIEV, Oct. 21 – Trade between Ukraine and Russia may top $40 billion in 2008, according to participants to economic forum entitled "Ukraine – Russia: cooperation in innovation and investment sectors" underway in Kiev on Oct. 21 through Oct. 23.