KIEV, June 25 – Prime Minister Mykola Azarov says he is sure the Ukrainian hryvnia will not collapse and Ukraine will not need a loan from the International Monetary Fund in the near-term outlook.

KIEV, June 29 – Over its first hundred days, the Ukrainian government has managed to stabilize the financial situation in the country and reach the growth of major economic figures, Deputy Prime Minister and Strong Ukraine Party leader Serhiy Tyhypko said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, June 29 - The Ukrainian government is in talks with unnamed U.S. companies to create joint ventures for the development of the Black Sea shelf, Fuel and Energy Minister Yuriy Boyko said in an interview with the Uriadovy Kurier newspaper.

KIEV, June 29 – Valeriy Khoroshkovskiy, the chief of the SBU security service and the owner of Ukraine’s largest television group, further strengthened his clout Tuesday after appointment of loyalists to a state media regulator, lawmakers said.

KIEV, June 25 – Everybody involved in the case of the illegal customs clearance of 11 billion cubic meters of natural gas will be questioned SBU Security Service Valeriy Khoroshkovsky said.

NOVO-OGARYOVO, June 29 – Russia has sent a draft intergovernmental agreement on oil transit to Ukraine, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin told journalists.

"An issue of oil transit to the Yuzhny port was discussed. Russia paid attention to cutting of a tariff by Ukraine. Our figures are the following: supplies via Novorossiysk cost $47.09 per ton and via Yuzhny port - $53 per ton," Sechin said.

NOVO-OGARYOVO, June 29 – The doubling of the Russia-Ukraine trade is a result of normalization of relations between the two countries in the political sphere, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said at th beginning of a meeting with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday.

KIEV, June 25 – The Ukrainian cabinet has prolonged cabinet resolution No. 925 of October 14, 2008 on measures to stabilize the situation in the metals, mining and chemical sectors of Ukraine for another three months – until October 1, 2009.

KIEV, June 26 - The Ukrainian government stepped in to solve a management dispute at UkrTransNafta, the state-owned oil shipper, which had been plaguing the company since Monday, a government official said Friday.

The dispute escalated Monday when two managers, Ihor Kiriushyn and Oleksandr Lazorko, had claimed control over the company that moves a bulk of Russian crude oil for exports to the European Union.

KIEV, June 29 – The European Union on Monday submitted proposals to Ukraine for an undisclosed loan aimed at helping the country to buy enough Russian natural gas ensure steady gas transit in the winter.