KIEV, May 20 - President Viktor Yanukovych on Sunday rejected the idea that jailed and ailing former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko be released for medical treatment abroad ahead of next month's Euro football tournament.
KIEV, May 17 - Ukraine is very close to signing deals to receive natural gas from alternative sources, First Deputy Prime Minister Valeriy Khoroshkovsky said.
KIEV, May 17 - The Ukrainian gas transportation system (GTS) remains the most reliable and cheapest gas transit route to Europe, despite the construction of the Nord Stream and South Stream gas pipelines, said Prime Minister Mykola Azarov.
KIEV, May 20 – The International Monetary Fund hasn’t yet set a date for sending a team to Ukraine to check whether the country qualifies for a multibillion lending package as discussions with the government continue.
KIEV, May 20 – Representatives of Ukraine’s gambling industry have asked President Viktor Yushchenko not to sign a law banning the operation of gambling business adopted by Parliament on May 15.
KIEV, May 20 – Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s government for the fourth consecutive month refused to disclose Ukraine’s vital economic growth statistics, fueling fears the economy is in a freefall.
KIEV, May 20 – A wave of political confrontation was looming Wednesday after Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko attacked Defense Minister Yuriy Yekhanurov, calling for the dismissal of President Viktor Yushchenko’s last ally in the government.
KIEV, May 19 – Ukraine will receive the third and fourth tranches of its IMF loan according to schedule, President Viktor Yushchenko said during a meeting on social and economic issues in Vinnytsia on Tuesday.
KIEV, May 20 – Ukraine's balance of payments is improving in the light of a higher pace of fall in imports against exports, according to Valeriy Lytvytsky, the head of the group of advisors to the governor of the National Bank of Ukraine.
KIEV, May 20 - Ukraine’s only producer of polysterene and a major producer of carbamide, Stirol, warned on Tuesday its natural gas supplies had declined sharply, forcing the company to shut some facilities in an emergency action.
