MOSCOW, Nov. 26 - Russia is ready to discuss any issue concerning gas supplies with its Ukrainian partners, Russian presidential aide Sergei Prikhodko told journalists.

KIEV, Nov. 26 – President Viktor Yushchenko will ask the government to remove all mediators in the agreement on deliveries of electrical energy to Lithuania.

He said this at a joint press conference with President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaite in Kiev on Thursday.

KIEV, Nov. 27 – President Viktor Yushchenko, citing intelligence reports, said Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has secretly agreed to foreign policy concessions to Russia in exchange for waving $8 billion natural gas penalty.

KIEV, Nov. 27 - Global warming may lead to a demographic disaster that could affect Ukraine, UN Resident Coordinator in Ukraine Francis O'Donnell said during the presentation of the UN Development Program's latest Human Development Report "Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world," in Kiev on Tuesday.

LONDON, Nov. 28 - Ukraine's GDP growth in 2008 is set to slow slightly, to 6.9% compared to the expected 7.2% this year and 7.1% last year, Dragon Capital Investment Company Managing Director Tomas Fiala said at a meeting with analysts in London on Tuesday.

KIEV, Nov. 29 – Yulia Tymoshenko, one of Ukraine’s most popular political figures, may throw her support behind the re-election of President Viktor Yushchenko in 2009, a close ally said Thursday.

KIEV, Nov. 29 – Arseniy Yatseniuk, Ukraine’s pragmatic and pro-Western foreign minister, on Thursday was tapped by Our Ukraine-People’s Self-defense as a candidate for post of the speaker of Parliament.

KIEV, Nov. 29 – A pro-Western coalition was created in Ukraine on Thursday after 227 lawmakers, a slim majority, signed an agreement opening way for the formation of the government led by the fiery Yulia Tymoshenko.

KIEV, Nov. 28 - President Viktor Yushchenko on Tuesday vetoed a law that has been increasing 63.4% royalties on extraction natural gas, the presidential press service reported Wednesday.

KIEV, Nov. 29 ??“ Ukraine by February 2007 will create a five to ten-day stabilization fuel reserve of 200,000 tons, Fuel and Energy Minister Yuriy Boyko told the press in Kiev on Tuesday.