KIEV, March 22 - Ukraine may raise up to $6 billion from selling a minority stake in national energy company Naftogaz Ukrayiny at a planned IPO, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Yuriy Boyko said Tuesday.

KIEV, March 22 – Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry will demand an explanation from the Israeli ambassador of the alleged kidnapping of a Palestinian in Ukraine and transfer to an Israeli prison cell.

KIEV, March 22 – Former President Leonid Kuchma will be investigated for his alleged role in the September 2000 murder of journalist Heorhiy Gongadze, deputy prosecutor general Rinat Kuzmin said Tuesday.

KIEV, March 21 – President Viktor Yanukovych has called for the adoption of a new government privatization program and the expansion of the list of companies to be sold off.

DONETSK, March 19 – The law on special economic zones and priority development territories will again start working in Ukraine, newly appointed Chairman of Donetsk Regional Administration Anatoliy Blyzniuk said on Friday, with reference to a statement made by Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych during a meeting with Donetsk region leadership on Thursday.

DONETSK, March 22 – The price of gas for the public from various groups of society should not be equal, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said at a press conference in Donetsk last week.

"We’ve instructed the economy and finance ministries to consider a differentiated approach to price formation.

KIEV, March 22 – Arseniy Yatseniuk, an opposition leader who appealed the creation of the governing coalition at the Constitutional Court, said Monday he was not sure the ruling will be fair and objective.

KIEV, March 22 – President Viktor Yanukovych will accept an invitation to join a nuclear non-proliferation summit in Washington next month along with 50 other world leaders, according to the presidential press service.

KIEV, March 22 – A Ukrainian government team will travel to Moscow on Tuesday to seek lower natural gas prices, perhaps in exchange for creating a consortium that would jointly operate Ukrainian gas pipelines.

KIEV, March 19 - Ukraine's current account deficit expanded to $12.9 billion, or 7.1% of GDP, in 2008, from $5.3 billion, or 3.7% of GDP, in 2007, according to updated statistics posted on the National Bank's Web site.