KIEV, April 19 - People living in areas not controlled by Kiev (in eastern Ukraine) will not be able to receive Ukrainian pensions there, the minister on the temporarily occupied territories and internally displaced persons of Ukraine, Vadym Chernysh, said.

KIEV, April 20 – First Deputy Prime Minister Stepan Kubiv said that Ukraine plans to conclude negotiations with the IMF on the second revision of the reform program and receive the third tranche of the loan by the end of the second quarter of this year.

BRUSSELS, April 17 – Expert-level talks between Russia, Ukraine and the European Commission made progress toward resolving differences over Russian gas supplies to Ukraine, but no date has yet been set for a high-level meeting, the European Commission said on Friday.

KIEV, April 20 – Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said he is certain that the IMF, G7 countries and the EU have noticed the beginning of active reforms in Ukraine.

KIEV, April 20 - Ukraine intends to privatize state-owned enterprises that are not strategic, planning to start this process with the test sale of one or two assets, possibly with a thermal power generating company, Minister of Economic Development and Trade Aivaras Abromavicius has stated.

LVIV, April 20 - Troops from the United States and Ukraine kicked off joint training exercises Monday intended to help bolster Ukraine's defenses against incursions from Russian-backed separatists in the east.

KIEV, April 18 – The Ukrainian Infrastructure Ministry and the Crimean government will draft a project to develop the western coast of Crimea as a resort area, involving foreign experts who will be chosen through a competition, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister and Infrastructure Minister Borys Kolesnikov said.

KIEV, April 19 – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon named the main tasks to achieve in responding to the major challenges of modern energy while speaking in Kiev on Tuesday at a summit on the safe and innovative use of nuclear energy.

KIEV, April 19 – The presidents of a number of countries attending a summit on the safe and innovative use of nuclear energy in Kiev on Tuesday have said they believe that nuclear safety is a top priority.

KIEV, April 20 – Ukraine supports the strengthening of the international nuclear nonproliferation regime, President Viktor Yanukovych said.