KIEV, Aug. 20 – President Viktor Yushchenko has received credentials from the newly appointed ambassadors of Germany, France, Canada, and the Republic of Korea.

KIEV, Aug. 20 - President Viktor Yushchenko insisted on Monday that plans to privatize key enterprises be suspended until after early parliamentary elections scheduled for Sept. 30.

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.