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.

KIEV, Nov. 29 ??“ The Cabinet of Minister seeks clarification from the Constitutional Court on whether President Viktor Yushchenko has the power to veto the government??™s budget, Justice Minister Oleksandr Lavrynovych said Wednesday.

KIEV, Nov. 29 ??“ Ukraine??™s pro-government coalition is under pressure to split after its member, the Socialist Party, joined forces with opposition groups to approve a bill declaring the 1932-1933 famine as genocide, a lawmaker said Wednesday.