KIEV, April 20 – Ukraine will seek to secure a new $12 billion lending program from the International Monetary Fund that will last for the next 2.5 years, Deputy Prime Minister Serhiy Tyhypko said Tuesday.

KIEV, April 16 – The cabinet and the National Bank of Ukraine have drawn up a list of banks that are to receive budget funds to increase their capital: ImexBank, Bank Kiev, Finance&Credit Bank, Ukrprombank, Nadra Bank, Rodovid Bank and Ukrgasbank, the acting finance minister of Ukraine, Ihor Umansky, told the press on Thursday.

KIEV, April 16 – The Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers is destroying the country's joint stance on gas transportation system modernization, Presidential Envoy on International Energy Security Bohdan Sokolovsky said.

KIEV, April 17 – The hryvnia exchange rate could strengthen on the introduction of administrative measures to limit demand for foreign currency by the National Bank of Ukraine, according to Valeriy Lytvytsky, the head of the group of advisors to the NBU governor.

KIEV, April 17 – The National Electricity Regulatory Commission is to approve a so-called "green" tariff, a special increased tariff for electricity generated using alternative energy sources, to stimulate their development.

KIEV, April 17 – The crisis in Ukrainian industry is losing severity, and the industrial sector may have reached the bottom of the recession, according to Valeriy Lytvytsky, the head of the group of advisors to the NBU governor.

KIEV, April 17 - The International Monetary Fund and Ukraine on Friday reached an initial agreement that may result in a $2.8 billion installment disbursed to the country soon, officials said.

KIEV, April 17 – The price of imported gas for Ukraine as of January 2009 won't be lower than $320 per 1,000 cubic meters, according to Konstantin Simonov, the president of the Center for Current Politics in Russia and the director of the National Energy Security Fund.

KIEV, April 18 - Naftogaz Ukrayiny, the national oil and gas company, started custom clearance of imported natural gas on Thursday, the State Custom Service chairman Valeriy Khoroshkovskiy said Friday.

KIEV, April 20 - President Viktor Yushchenko??™s Our Ukraine party postponed talks over creation of the ruling coalition with two other parties for five days to celebrate Orthodox Easter, the chief negotiator said Thursday.