KIEV, July 20 - The government is to issue UAH 16.4 billion in domestic loan bonds to repay delayed value-added tax refunds for 2009, said Deputy Prime Minister Serhiy Tyhypko.

KIEV, July 20 – The Ukrainian government expects to receive at least $3 billion from the International Monetary Fund this year, twice as much as was earlier expected, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said Tuesday.

KIEV, July 20 – An international media watchdog said Tuesday it was “absolutely unacceptable” for the chief of Ukraine’s SBU security service to also lead and command a major television group in the country.

KIEV, July 20 - Ukraine and Libya will go ahead to create a joint venture that would build a new oil refinery in Ukraine with participation of Libyan investors, the government press service reported Monday.

KIEV, July 20 – President Viktor Yushchenko almost doubled his popular support rating over the past four weeks after starting a vigorous campaign to seek reelection in January 2010, the latest opinion poll released Monday shows.

KIEV, July 20 – U.S. Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Ukraine on Monday to reassure the country that US efforts to repair relations with Moscow will not come at the expense of support for Russia's ex-Soviet neighbors.

KIEV, July 17 – Setting unrealistically high macroeconomic indicators for Ukraine's economy has weakened the efficiency of the government's anti-crisis efforts and disrupted the balance of budget, taxation, pension and monetary policies, President Viktor Yushchenko said at a meeting with regional mass media at his Syniohora residence in Ivano-Frankivsk region.

KIEV, July 20 – The gas contract signed by the present Ukrainian government will soon negatively affect the competitiveness of a range of Ukrainian sectors, according to Arseniy Yatseniuk, the Front for Change initiative leader.

KIEV, July 18 - The World Bank on Friday revised upwards Ukraine's 2008 inflation forecast to 21.5%, up from 17%, in a further sign that the government’s forecast of 15.9% was too optimistic.

Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has been insisting that Ukraine’s inflation will not exceed 15.9% even as consumer prices rose 15.5% in January through June.

MOSCOW, July 18 – Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko called her Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Friday to discuss trade and economic relations, Putin’s spokesman reported.

“Putin and Tymoshenko discussed various aspects of bilateral trade and economic cooperation,” Dmitry Peskov, the spokesman, said, according to Itar-Tass, the state-owned news agency.