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.

TOKYO, Jan. 19 - Ukraine is interested in the presence of Japanese businesses in all branches of its economy, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych said.

KIEV, Jan. 19 – Ukraine's Energy and Coal Industry Ministry is initiating the introduction of antidumping duties on imported fuels: at EUR 130 per ton for gasoline irrespective of the country of origin and at EUR 80 per ton for diesel fuel, according to Kostiantyn Borodin, the director of the ministry's oil, gas and oil refining industry department.

KIEV, Jan. 19 - Ukraine will replace top managers of UkrNafta, the country’s largest oil company, at a shareholder meeting on February 25, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Yuriy Boyko said Wednesday.

KIEV, Jan. 19 – Serhiy Arbuzov, the new governor of the National Bank of Ukraine, postponed indefinitely his first press conference on Wednesday amid controversy over the mysterious source of his massive income in 2009.