MOSCOW, Sept. 19 – The upcoming elections in Ukraine and Russia will have no effect on bilateral cooperation in the energy sector, Russian Ambassador to Ukraine Viktor Chernomyrdin said.

KIEV, Sept. 20 ??“ Ukraine and Russia could sign a range of agreements on energy sector cooperation during a meeting of the Ukrainian-Russian intergovernmental committee for economic cooperation this fall, according to Ukrainian Energy Minister Yuriy Boyko.

DONETSK, Sept. 20 - Thirteen coal miners were killed and 60 were injured Wednesday after a gallery collapsed about 1,078 meters underground at Zasyadko coalmine in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, an Emergency Ministry spokesman said.

KIEV, Sept. 20 ??“ A group of lawmakers loyal to President Viktor Yushchenko on Wednesday filed an appeal seeking to let the Constitutional Court review controversial constitutional amendments that had reduced presidential powers earlier this year.

KIEV, Sept. 20 ??“ Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych on Wednesday emerged unconvinced that Ukraine should accelerate accession to NATO following a meeting of the country??™s top security body that had tried to persuade him otherwise.

KIEV, Sept. 20 - A 10-day investigation showed no trace of corruption among close allies of President Viktor Yushchenko, Prosecutor General Sviatoslav Piskun said Tuesday.

KIEV, Sept. 20 - President Viktor Yushchenko suffered a blow on Tuesday when Parliament had refused to approve his protégé Yuriy Yekhanurov as the new prime minister, a move likely to increase political tensions in Ukraine.

LVIV, Sept. 20 - Lviv local authorities have submitted an appeal against an economic court ruling that banned the construction of a hypermarket by the METRO Cash & Carry company, Lviv deputy mayor for city construction and land use Vasyl Lozynskiy snnounced, according to Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Sept. 20 - The Khartsyzsk Pipe Plant (Donetsk region), a producer of large-diameter antirust oil and gas pipes, is to participate in a tender to supply pipes to build the Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean oil pipeline.

VIENNA, Sept 20 - Simon Wiesenthal, who waged an untiring campaign to track down Nazi war criminals and keep alive the memory of six million Jews killed in the Holocaust, died on Tuesday at the age of 96.