KIEV, Nov. 15 - Ukraine's domestic food production is sufficient now and it is boosting exports, President Viktor Yanukovych said at a meeting on the occasion of the Day of Agriculture in Kiev on Friday.

BRUSSELS, Nov. 18 – The European Union will support the post-Soviet states which have decided to deepen integration with the EU and third-party countries like Russia should respect their choice, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said.

KIEV, Nov. 18 – A group of lawmakers working on a bill that would allow jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko to travel for medical treatment in Germany failed on Monday to finalize the draft.

KIEV, Nov. 15 – Vitaliy Khomutynnyk, the head of Parliament's committee for finance, banking, tax and customs policy, predicts Parliament on November 20 will pass draft amendments (Bill No. 10687) to the Tax Code at second reading, which will boost excise taxes on fuel, which will be denominated in hryvnias, and on cigarettes from January 1, 2013.

KIEV, Nov. 16 – The political parties that ran for the Ukrainian parliament in 2012 spent more than UAH 600 million on the election campaign in multi-member constituencies, the Central Election Commission said, citing the parties' official reports.

KHARKIV, Nov. 16 - Jailed Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko is in "increased pain" following her two-week hunger strike, but is too weak to receive full-scale treatment, her doctor said Friday.

KIEV, Nov. 16 – Kiev expects from the EU-Ukraine summit on November 22 an action plan on the introduction of a visa-free regime, as well as a transition to the final stage of negotiations on signing an association agreement, Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleksandr Dykusarov said.

KIEV, Nov. 17 – The Regions Party faction will carefully study the demands of protesters who are staging a rally outside the parliament building against the adoption of the draft Tax Code in the current wording.

KIEV, Nov. 18 – Parliament on Friday is to hear a report of the temporary commission for investigation the situation around the ruling of Stockholm Arbitration Tribunal in the case of RosUkrEnergo (RUE) and could send the materials drawn up by the commission to the Prosecutor General's Office.

KIEV, Nov. 18 - President Viktor Yanukovych’s coalition in Parliament on Thursday approved a controversial bill that makes it easier to amend the constitution ahead of a court ruling that may postpone general elections.