KIEV, Sept. 18 – The lending situation in Ukraine could improve after the realization of measures aimed at bolstering demand in the country, according to Petro Poroshenko, the head of the Council of National Bank of Ukraine.

KIEV, Sept. 19 - President Viktor Yushchenko will visit Azerbaijan in November to try to resume efforts to organize an alternative to Russia’s Caspian Sea oil supply route, shattered after Russia’s invasion into Georgia last month.

KIEV, Sept. 19 - Natural gas talks between Russia and Ukraine over supply volumes and prices to be charged in 2009 are stalled due to on-going political instability in Ukraine, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said Friday.

KIEV, Sept. 20 – President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko exchanged some of the harshest criticism of each other over the weekend, a sign that a new coalition between the two is increasingly unlikely.

KIEV, Sept. 20 ??“ Ukraine is planning by the end of 2006 to join the Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA), which oversees air safety standards in Europe, according to Mykola Marchenko, the head of the state service for supervision of the provision of aviation safety.

KIEV, Sept. 21 - Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych met Russian President Vladimir Putin late Thursday in the Kremlin ahead of important talks over natural gas supplies, media reports said.

KIEV, Sept. 21 ??“ Parliament, by a slim Regions Party-led majority, voted on Thursday to start debates over the 2007 budget submitted by the government of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych.

KIEV, Sept. 21 ??“ In a direct assault on President Viktor Yushchenko??™s pro-Western policy, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych said Thursday that his pro-Russian ruling coalition will be defining the domestic and foreign policies of Ukraine.

KIEV, Sept. 21 - Ukraine's law enforcement agency Wednesday appealed recent court rulings that had written off $1.32 billion debt owed to the state by now defunct company once owned by former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

KIEV, Sept. 21 - An ongoing political crisis may jeopardize Ukraine's finances this year as the government keeps postponing the planned sale of ?600 million 10-year Eurobond, Acting Finance Minister Viktor Pynzenyk said Wednesday.