KIEV, Aug. 19 – Clashes erupted Monday when opposition lawmakers broke into the heavily guarded Kiev city council building through windows seeking to prevent what they call an “illegal” session of the local legislature.

KIEV, Aug. 16 – President Viktor Yanukovych has signed a new employment law aimed at helping young people.

Iryna Akimova, First Deputy head of Ukraine's Presidential Administration, said at a briefing in Kiev that the law would partially resolve problems on the population's employment.

KIEV, Aug. 16 – President Viktor Yanukovych has signed law No. 9649-d on amendments to the Tax Code stipulated in the law on the realization of the project on the construction of infrastructure facilities in Kiev region, granting some tax benefits, the State Agency for Investment and National Project Management reported.

KIEV, Aug. 16 – Part of the 30-kilometer Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and the town of Chernobyl are good for settlement of people, according to officials.

KIEV, Aug. 17 – The holding of matches of the Euro 2012 European Football Championship in Ukraine's capital, Kiev, had a positive impact on the replenishment of the budget, said Iryna Nosachova, head of the State Tax Service's office in Kiev.

KIEV, Aug. 17 – A Ukrainian court on Friday sentenced opposition leader and former Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko to two years in prison in the latest case seen by the West as politically motivated prosecution.

Lutsenko, who served as the interior minister under former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, is serving four years for a separate charge and the latest verdict will not add to that jail time.

KIEV, Aug. 18 – Kiev residents and guests will mark Independence Day on August 24 with a regatta between cruiser yachts and an air carnival, according to the celebration program posted on the official Web site of Kiev City State Administration.

KIEV, Aug. 18 – Ukraine's expected wheat and barley export quota of 2.5 million tons until the end of this year is too low, which will lead to a glut on the domestic market, losses to grain traders and grain losses due to a lack of storage facilities, according to the Ukrainian Grain Association.

VELYKI SOROCHYNTSI, Aug. 18 - President Viktor Yanukovych said he believes that the Sorochyntsi Fair provides an opportunity not only to assess the achievements of the Ukrainian economy, but also demonstrate Ukraine’s domestic potential to foreign partners.

KIEV, Aug. 19 - President Viktor Yanukovych will travel to Germany on Aug. 30 to push for integration into the European Union, a spokesman at the Foreign Ministry said Thursday.