KIEV, May 20 – President Viktor Yanukovych on Friday signed into law controversial legislation that honors the Soviet Union’s Red Flag, the hoisting of which earlier this month triggered massive clashes and a shooting incident in Lviv.

KIEV, May 19 – Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko threatened the former head of the National Joint Stock Company Nafogaz Ukrayiny, Oleh Dubyna, with dismissal if he refused to sign the gas contract with Russia's Gazprom in January 2009, a state prosecutor said.

KIEV, May 19 - President Viktor Yanukovych has ordered the creation of an ad-hoc group composed of car industry experts and government representatives in order to ensure proper conditions for the development of the domestic car industry.

KIEV, May 22 - President Viktor Yushchenko, opening a regional energy summit in Kiev on Thursday, said routing supplies of Caspian Sea oil via Ukraine to the European Union would “minimize” political threats to energy security.

KIEV, May 22 – The fate of the hryvnia plunged into controversy on Thursday when the National Bank of Ukraine’s strategic policy body suspended the move allowing the currency’s sharp appreciation against the U.S. dollar.

WASHINGTON, May 22 (UPI) - The U.S. National Nuclear Safety Administration said Monday it was supplying Ukraine with radiation detection equipment at 30 sites.

KIEV, May 22 ??“ Pro-Russian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych on Tuesday apparently played down his earlier agreement for holding early election as a way out of severe political crisis in Ukraine.

KIEV, May 22 ??“ A local Kiev court on Tuesday rejected President Viktor Yushchenko??™s appeal that had been seeking to prevent the Constitutional Court from issuing a ruling on political crisis.

KIEV, May 22 ??“ Vasyl Kyseliov, a senior member of the pro-government??™s Regions Party, demanded that Parliamentary Speaker Oleksandr Moroz publish in the Holos Ukrainy newspaper the passed law amending the 2007 state budget, according to which wage and pensions are to be increased from June 1.

KIEV, May 22 ??“ The total volume of foreign direct investments from the European Union countries to Ukraine was $11 billion in 1991-2005, an official at the European Commission told Interfax-Ukraine.