KIEV, Sept. 20 – Ukraine will no longer use daylight saving time, after 266 MPs voted on Tuesday to scrap the system in the country.

"The Verkhovna Rada decrees to fix the time of the second time zone by adding one hour on the territory of Ukraine from March 27, 2011," reads the draft bill, which was authored by Oleh Nadosha from the Regions Party.

NEW YORK, Sept. 21 – President Viktor Yanukovych, addressing the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Wednesday, called for a coordinated international effort to ensure global energy security.

KIEV, Sept. 20 – President Viktor Yanukovych is planning soon to visit to Singapore.

"Singapore's Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, at a meeting with Viktor Yanukovych on Monday, invited him to pay an official visit to Singapore, and this visit will take place shortly," Presidential Administration head Serhiy Liovochkin told reporters in Kiev on Monday.

KIEV, Sept. 21 – The Constitutional Court on Thursday will start deliberations on whether the powers of President Viktor Yanukovych be dramatically increased by canceling constitutional amendments approved back in December 2004, a newspaper reported.

KIEV, Sept. 20 – Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has invited Singaporean businessmen to invest in the Ukrainian economy.

"We look forward to your visit, which will allow Singaporean investors to better understand our country," the Ukrainian government's press service quoted him as saying at a meeting with Singapore's Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew on Monday.

KIEV, Sept. 21 – President Viktor Yushchenko has accused the International Monetary Fund of being too lenient on the government led by Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, according to an article published in the Financial Times on Sept. 17.

KIEV, Sept. 21 – The government said Monday it will try to sell the Odessa Portside Plant, a lucrative chemical company, at an auction on Sept. 29 despite opposition from President Viktor Yushchenko.

KIEV, Sept. 21 – The Ukrainian government indicated Monday it would provide guarantees on foreign debts of Naftogaz Ukrayiny if the company reaches a deal with investors to reschedule its debts for at least five years.

NEW YORK, Sept. 21 – Ukraine will seek to strengthen its defense following the decision by the U.S. to abandon the planned missile-defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic, President Viktor Yushchenko said Monday.

ZAPORIZHIA, Sept. 18 – If the presidential election were to be held next Sunday, the three first places would be won by Regions Party leader Viktor Yanukovych, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and leader of the NGO Front of Changes Arseniy Yatseniuk, according to a survey carried out by the National Institute for Strategic Studies (NISS) on September 8-12, 2009.