KIEV, Dec. 19 – Ukraine will take into account recommendations of the European Union on improvement of its legal system and in this context the authorities are ready to cooperate and reach a compromise with the opposition, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said.
KIEV, Dec. 19 - Ukraine’s freezing winter has taken the lives of 24 more people pushing the overall death toll to 61 in December after temperatures fell below minus 23 degrees Celsius.
KIEV, Dec. 19 – Ukraine should not try to approve its new constitution at a referendum and should rather do this by adopting amendments in Parliament, Parliamentary Speaker Volodymyr Rybak said Wednesday.
KIEV, Dec. 19 - Prime Minister Mykola Azarov within days, possibly on Tuesday, will hold talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin over lowering natural gas prices, a senior official said Monday.
KIEV, Dec. 19 - A summit intended to bring Ukraine into Europe's mainstream foundered on Monday after the EU said it would not sign a landmark political and trade deal until Kiev resolves the case of jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko.
PRAGUE (the Czech Republic), Dec. 19 - Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has said he hopes that a compromise solution will be reached at Ukrainian-Russian gas price talks.
"The negotiations that are taking place are difficult, and this is due to the fact that an extremely unequal agreement between Russia and Ukraine was signed in 2009. Under this agreement, Russia received a number of very serious advantages.
MINSK, Dec. 19 - Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko appeared headed for another five-year term in a controversial election Sunday that was quickly followed by violent late-night street clashes and accusations of vote fraud from human rights groups.
