KIEV, March 22 - Germany's foreign minister pledged to help the new Ukrainian government on Saturday and heard an appeal from the prime minister in Kiev that it will need energy from the European Union to secure it against Russia cutting supplies, Reuters reported.

KIEV, March 23 - Prime Minister Mykola Azarov on Wednesday attacked importers and retailers of gasoline and diesel fuel for charging significant mark-ups that lead to higher gasoline prices at the pump.

KIEV, March 23 – Ukraine’s sensitive pension reform proposal, which increases retirement age, may be delayed by a month or two, postponing a $1.55 billion installment from the International Monetary Fund, a senior official said Wednesday.

KIEV, March 23 – Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko left for Brussels on Wednesday to ask European leaders for “preventive measures” to stop President Viktor Yanukovych and his government from turning democracy into authoritarian rule.

MOSCOW, March 22 - Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin has called for strengthening the social and economic relations between Moscow and Kiev.

"In order to catch up with what has been lost over the previous years due to various political circumstances," Sobyanin said at a meeting with Kiev City State Administration Head Oleksandr Popov in Moscow Mayor's Office on Monday evening.

MOSCOW, March 22 - The board of directors at Russian gas giant OJSC Gazprom has taken under advisement reports about the state of Russian-Ukrainian relations in the gas industry and the prospects for cooperation with Russia's neighbor, a company press release says.

KIEV, March 22 – Poland hopes that during its presidency of the European Union Ukraine will sign an association agreement with the EU, although Ukraine needs to conduct a series of reforms to achieve this.

TBILISI, March 22 – Georgia does not expect a worsening of intergovernmental relations with Ukraine and believes that the Ukrainian market is successful for investment, according to Georgian Prime Minister Nika Gilauri.

KIEV, March 22 - Ukraine's Economy Ministry, in a reworked draft state budget program for economic and social development in 2010, proposes a state budget deficit of 4% of GDP.

KIEV, March 22 – Ukraine's most famous boxer, a faction leader of the Kiev City Council, Vitaliy Klychko, has sent an open letter to President Viktor Yanukovych and Prime Minister Mykola Azarov asking them to dismiss Leonid Chernovetsky as Kiev mayor and call a fresh mayor election and elections to Kiev City Council.