KIEV, Sept. 18 – The signing of the Association Agreement with the European Union will contribute to Ukraine's consistent movement to the European quality of life, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said.

KIEV, Sept. 18 – The Ukrainian government on Wednesday formally gave its approval for landmark political and trade agreements to be signed with the European Union despite Russia’s mounting pressure to avert the deals.

KIEV, Sept. 17 – The video surveillance system at election wards during the October parliamentary election vote count will record the process, but not broadcast it live.

KIEV, Sept. 17 – Prime Minister Mykola Azarov says he is dissatisfied with the way corruption is addressed in Ukraine, but that he also notes improvements in anticorruption efforts.

KIEV, Sept. 17 – Former Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko, who is serving a prison term in the Unites States for fraud and money laundering, will be released on November 1, Komsomolska Pravda in Ukraine newspaperreported, referring to the Web site of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons.

KIEV, Sept. 18 – National Bank of Ukraine Governor Serhiy Arbuzov, Finance Minister Yuriy Kolobov, Agricultural Policy and Food Minister Mykola Prysiazhniuk, Environment Minister Eduard Stavytsky, State Tax Administration chief Oleksandr Klymenko and Ihor Kaletnik, head of the State Customs Service will leave on Tuesday for New York to attend the 67th session of the UN General Assembly, according to Segodnya newspaper.

KIEV, Sept. 18 – President Viktor Yanukovych’s Regions Party started a push on Tuesday to approve legislation that would slap journalists with up to three-year jail sentences for disseminating ‘libelous’ information about politicians.

YALTA, Sept. 16 - Ukraine will gradually raise the price of natural gas for households and the housing and utilities sector, bringing them to European levels, but any increase in the price of gas has to be preceded by an increase in social standards, President Viktor Yanukovych has said.

KIEV, Sept. 16 - U.S. President Barack Obama reportedly hopes to meet with his Ukrainian counterpart in March 2012.

Obama has sent a letter to Yanukovych, the Ukrainian president's press service reported on Friday.

KIEV, Sept. 16 - Ukraine may boost the capacity of its planned liquified natural gas (LNG) terminal on the Black Sea if natural gas talks with Russia fail to produce a compromise on prices and supply volumes, an official said Friday.