KIEV, Aug. 21 – The Central Election Commission must approve extra measures to prevent massive fraud at the Sept. 30 election following its decision to allow casting ballots at home, a Kiev court ruled Monday.

KIEV, Aug. 21 – President Viktor Yushchenko on Tuesday ordered his Tu-134 plane to land in Kherson airport minutes after takeoff after seeing that a major wildfire was quickly spreading through the regional forest.

NOVI SOROCHYNTSI (Poltava region), Aug. 18 - President Viktor Yushchenko considers it a priority for the Ukrainian government to preserve the current Russian-Ukrainian gas agreements.

KIEV, Aug. 21 ??“ The body of a recently kidnapped senior police officer was recovered on Sunday outside Kiev after one of the suspects apparently cooperated with police.

KIEV, Aug. 20 - Ukraine may pull out of the Common Economic Space, a trade bloc that includes Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus, after Moscow has demanded a much greater degree of integration out of the group, Economy Minister Serhiy Teriokhin said Friday.

KIEV, Aug. 19 - The Ukrainian government is preparing to reduce the rates of a number of taxes in 2006, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said at Thursday's meeting with Finance Minister Viktor Pinzenyk, STAU Chairman Oleksandr Kyreev, and local tax services heads.

KIEV, Aug. 19 - Regions, districts and towns of Ukraine will set up commissions that will deal with redemption from defaulted monetary savings of the former Soviet Sberbank.

KIEV, Aug. 19 - According to preliminary data, in January-July Ukrainian enterprises cut export of metal products, ferroalloys and metal scrap by 7.3% in comparison with the same period last year from 18.17 million tons to 16.84 million tons, a ministry official told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Aug. 19 - This year the government is going to allocate UAH40 million for development and construction of subways in Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk and to compensate preferential transportation in full, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said on Thursday.

BRUSSELS, July 17 – The European Parliament (EP) has called on the Council of the European Union to extend its sanctions policy against Russia and Belarus and enhance control over the sanctions circumvention.