KIEV, Jan. 21 – Political confrontation appears set to escalate in Ukraine after opposition parties on Monday demanded the holding of an emergency session of Parliament in reaction to a new investigation against jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko.

KIEV, Jan. 21 - Opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych, the frontrunner in Ukraine’s presidential election, said Thursday he will seek to resume talks with Russia over a joint venture to operate natural gas pipelines.

KIEV, Jan. 21 - Prime Minster Yulia Tymoshenko on Thursday told Arcelor Mittal to hike wages at its Ukrainian steelmaker by 25% by the end of January or face punishment from the government.

KIEV, Jan. 21 – Opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych, in talks with politicians whose supporters may decide the outcome of next month’s presidential vote, promised to dismiss Parliament and to call an early election, a lawmaker said.

PRAGUE, Jan. 21 - The Czech intelligence services BSI and UZSI have warned parliamentarians in a closed session that the Russian-Ukrainian gas dispute will very likely repeat, saying it is only a question of time, daily Pravo reported Wednesday.

KIEV, Jan. 21 - The charred wreckage of an automobile owned by a judge of the Higher Economic Court of Ukraine has been found outside Kiev, with a burnt body in the back seat of the car.

KIEV, Jan. 21 – Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Wednesday questioned the power of Ukraine’s top security body to make changes to the recent natural gas deal between Russia and Ukraine that she had brokered.

The National Security and Defense Council, the body under President Viktor Yushchenko, is to get together on Friday to decide whether the deal meets “national interests.”

KIEV, Jan. 21 – A $2.3 billion natural gas dispute sparked on Wednesday between the government and a gas trader, two days after a 10-year gas deal had been reached between Ukraine and Russia.

KIEV, Jan. 19 – The number of unemployed in Ukraine might reach 5 million by April, director of social programs of Sofia Social research center Oleksandr Levtsun has stated.

KIEV, Jan. 19 – The United Nation's International Court of Justice will announce its ruling on the delimitation of the continental shelf between Romania and Ukraine and their exclusive economic zones in the Black Sea on Feb. 3, said Vasyl Kyrylych, spokesman for the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry.