KIEV, May 22 – Parliament voted Tuesday to approve guidelines for drafting Ukraine’s 2013 budget, stipulating that it must be based on President Viktor Yanukovych’s initiatives and the government’s five-year economic reform program.

KIEV, May 21 – Ukraine is preparing to ship to Iraq a second batch of 62 BTR-4 armored personnel carriers, which were assembled at Kharkiv facilities under a large-scale contract worth more than $550 million for the supply of Ukrainian military equipment to the Iraqi customer, a source familiar with the implementation of the contract told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, May 20 – Activists of the All-Ukrainian Vpered (Forward) civil action group will continue to hold rallies if the requirements of the spring march of protest are not fulfilled, said Natalia Korolevska, MP from the BYT-Batkivschyna faction and chairman of the Vpered people's board.

KIEV, May 20 – Ukraine will continue to follow its path to integration with the European Union, Foreign Minister Kostiantyn Hryschenko said.

"We have the best rate of dialog with the European Union among the neighbors of the European Union in the post-Soviet area.

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.