WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 – Sending shockwaves through the Ukrainian government, the U.S. Senate on Saturday approved resolution demanding the release of opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko and calling for visa restrictions against those responsible for her imprisonment.

KIEV, Sept. 21 – Prominent businessman, philanthropist, and the founder of the EastOne investment advisory group, Victor Pinchuk, and famous boxers Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko lead the top 10 list of Ukrainians influential in the world according to the Institute of World Policy, taking 1st and 2nd spots, respectively.

KIEV, Sept. 23 – Austria wants to deepen economic relations with Ukraine, Austrian Federal President Heinz Fischer said at a meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovych in New York on Wednesday, the press office of the Ukrainian president reported.

KIEV, Sept. 23 – The Prosecutor General's Office has started a pre-trial investigation into a criminal case on the activities of Ukrainian peacekeepers in Kosovo, Defense Ministry spokesman Oleksandr Kluban said.

KIEV, Sept. 23 – The approval of constitutional amendments reducing presidential powers back in December 2004 was a “mistake,” President Viktor Yanukovych’s top aide told the Constitutional Court on Thursday during deliberations on the issue.

NEW YORK, Sept. 23 – Ukrainian American organizations boycotted a meeting with President Viktor Yanukovych accusing him of attempting to introduce dictatorship, restrict freedoms and follow an openly pro-Russian foreign policy course.

KIEV, Sept. 21 – President Viktor Yushchenko has called on government to provide the necessary financing for the construction of bridges across the Dnipro in Zaporizhia.

"The government has to allocate UAH 500 million from the budget for 2009 to finance this construction without a fuss, without advertisement, and without billboards," the president said while visiting the construction site on Friday, the presidential press service reported.

HAISYN (Vinnytsia region), Sept. 23 – Only one year is needed to provide sugar refineries and plants with alternative sources of energy, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said this in Haisyn (Vinnytsia region) on Tuesday at the all-Ukrainian meeting dedicated to issues of sugar-beet sector.

NEW YORK, Sept. 23 - President Viktor Yushchenko has confirmed that Ukraine's Tsyklon (Cyclone)-4 launch vehicle will blast off from Brazil's Alcantara space center in 2010.

"The first launch as part of the Tsyklon-4 project will be carried out in 2010," Yushchenko told Ukrainian journalists in New York on Tuesday.

NEW YORK, Sept. 23 – President Viktor Yushchenko intends to cancel all the steps which will be taken on the sales of a state stake in the Odessa Port-Side Plant, scheduled for Sept. 28-29.