MOSCOW, Oct. 18 - The Russian and Ukrainian prime ministers could hold a bilateral meeting in the corridors of multi-party events in St. Petersburg on October 18-19.

KIEV, Oct. 18 - Ukraine will reverse its Odessa-Brody oil pipeline flow in the near future to start moving massive supplies of Venezuelan crude to Belarus, President Viktor Yanukovych said Monday.

KIEV, Oct. 18 - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he is content with his country’s level of military-technical cooperation with Russia.

"We are acquiring S-300 missile systems and other weapons from Russia, and this process is well underway,"Chavez said in Kiev on Monday while visiting the Antonov Company, when asked by Interfax whether Caracas could buy the S-300 missile systems which Russia earlier planned to deliver to Iran.

BRUSSELS, Oct. 15 – Political support and consolidation are required to implement a project on the creation of the Eurasian oil transport corridor, said President Viktor Yushchenko.

"We believe that the full implementation of the project should be ensured at the technical and economic levels," Yushchenko said in Brussels on Thursday, following his meeting with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso.

KIEV, Oct 16 - Kiev's proposal to use Ukrainian radar stations in the new U.S. missile defense architecture is a normal thing, said Ukraine's First Deputy Presidential Secretariat Chief and former defense minister Yuriy Yekhanurov.

KIEV, Oct. 16 – Experts from the European Commission reacted positively to a feasibility study and plans for the Eurasian oil transport corridor based on the Odessa-Brody oil pipeline operating in direct mode, according to the presidential secretariat.

KIEV, Oct. 18 – Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko will seek to combine duties of the president and prime minister if she wins the next presidential election, a person familiar with Tymoshenko’s strategy said Saturday.

KIEV, Oct. 18 – Ukraine’s presidential election campaign is set to begin on Monday, but reports suggest the Constitutional Court is about to rule to demand changes to controversial legislation governing the election.

KIEV, Oct. 17 – Details have emerged about the division of governmental power specified in the coalition agreement between the Yulia Tymoshenko bloc and Our Ukraine-People's Self-defense, headed by President Viktor Yushchenko.

KIEV, Oct. 18 – The office of President Viktor Yushchenko on Thursday criticized some defense and economic initiatives of Yulia Tymoshenko, the likely new prime minister, complaining the initiatives may simply not be viable.