KIEV, Jan. 17 – The president's bill on amending the constitution, removing the immunity of MPs and judges, will be sent to the Constitutional Court by parliament during the next plenary week, first deputy head of the Bloc of Petro Poroshenko's faction Ihor Kononenko said.

MOSCOW, Jan. 17 - Russian migration service chief Konstantin Romodanovsky has said the new rule requiring Ukrainian citizens to enter Russia using only foreign passports has been put off at the request of Ukrainian citizens.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 – The United States welcomes Ukraine's achievements over the past year, Director of the U.S. Department of State's Press Office Jeff Rathke said at a press briefing.

KIEV, Jan. 16 – The schedule of President Viktor Yanukovych does not foresee his participation in the World Economic Forum in Davos (Switzerland), the presidential press service said in response to an information request from Interfax-Ukraine on Thursday.

KIEV, Jan. 17 – Ukraine's Parliament has voted to allow the National Commission for Communications Regulation to restrict access to the Internet.

Some 235 MPs, a quorum being 226 votes, voted for the adoption of draft law No. 3879, registered in Parliament by MP Vadym Kolesnychenko of the governing Regions Party.

KIEV, Jan. 17 - Transparency International Ukraine has criticized the law introducing amendments to the law on the judicial system and the status of judges and procedural laws on additional measures on the safety of citizens, which were passed by Parliament on Thursday and signed by President Viktor Yanukovych the following day.

KIEV, Jan. 19 – Anti-government protests in Ukraine's capital escalated into fiery street battles with police Sunday as thousands of demonstrators hurled rocks and firebombs to set police vehicles ablaze. Dozens of officers and protesters were injured.

KIEV, Jan. 19 – The American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine has asked Prime Minister Mykola Azarov to promote the facilitation of the procedure for the issue of permits required for the transportation of agricultural products, reads a report the Chamber.

KIEV, Jan. 19 – Only days after President Viktor Yanukovych reshuffled the government by replacing its finance minister, Ukraine is apparently poised to accelerate efforts to win resumption of borrowing from the International Monetary Fund.

KIEV, Jan. 19 – The creation of a trilateral joint venture for the exploitation of the Ukrainian gas transport system (GTS) involving the EU and Russia should be completed before 2014, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said.