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.

KIEV, May 20 - The Prosecutor General’s Office said Tuesday it had suspended the controversial decision by Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s government canceling offshore oil exploration license for U.S. oil company Vanco Energy.

KIEV, May 20 – President Viktor Yushchenko, who has been opposing the rapid appreciation of the hryvnia as a means of fighting inflation, met the governor of the National Bank of Ukraine for a “conversation.”

KIEV, May 20 ??“ President Viktor Yushchenko??™s top security body on Friday postponed its crucial meeting for several days to give Ukrainian parties more time to find a compromise for ending severe political crisis.

KIEV, May 18 ??“ The Ukrainian government instructed the Fuel and Energy Ministry to draft a price forecast for natural gas to be imported to Ukraine in 2008 in order to calculate the expenditures of the 2008 state budget.

KHARKIV, April 20 – Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov has discussed the issue of restoring the city after the end of the war waged by the Russian Federation by British architect and designer of Apple Park Norman Foster, the press service of the City Council has reported.

KYIV, April 20 – Russia's invasion of Ukraine has triggered major threats to global food and nutrition security, and if food prices stay this high for a year, global poverty could go up by more than 100 million, World Bank Group President David Malpass said at the U.S. Treasury's event on "Tackling Food Insecurity: The Challenge And Call To Action."