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.

KIEV, Sept. 23 - The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria will issue a grant of $103.9 million to two non-governmental organizations to finance programs on fighting HIV and AIDS in Ukraine for the period until 2012.

NEW YORK, Sept. 23 – President Viktor Yushchenko said Wednesday he had received assurances from Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the NATO Secretary General, that Russia will not be able to block Ukraine’s accession to the alliance.

NEW YORK, Sept. 23 – Russia may again resort to suspending natural gas supplies to Ukraine in the middle of the winter as a way of putting pressure on the country, President Viktor Yushchenko warned Tuesday.

NEW YORK, Sept. 23 – President Viktor Yushchenko said Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, jointly with the opposition Regions Party, are seeking to remove him from the presidency this year in a bid to reverse Ukraine’s pro-Western foreign policy.