KIEV, Aug. 15 - The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has advised Ukrainian citizens to refrain from traveling to Egypt without urgent necessity due to the introduction of a state of emergency and the deteriorating security situation in the country.

KIEV, Aug. 16 – Ukraine should demand the imposition of international sanctions against Russia through the World Trade Organization, from the Batkivschyna faction MP Andriy Pavlovsky said.

KIEV, Aug. 18 – Russia decided to deploy its trade restrictions against Ukraine after obtaining reports that European leaders may have been leaning towards signing free trade and political association agreements with Kiev, a newspaper said.

KIEV, Aug. 18 – Russia may impose tougher trade sanctions against Ukraine should Kiev make the “suicidal” move to sign free trade and political association agreements with the European Union, an aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin said Sunday.

KIEV, Aug. 18 – Turkmenistan expects President Viktor Yanukovych to make an official visit to the country, said Rashid Meredov, Turkmenistan’s deputy prime minister and foreign minister.

KIEV, Aug. 18 – President Viktor Yanukovych was declared the most influential person in Ukraine for the second consecutive year in a Top-100 rating drawn up by Korrespondent magazine.

KIEV, Aug. 17 - Former President Viktor Yushchenko has suggested that former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko could have rated political interests above national ones in signing the 2009 gas supply agreements with Russia.

KIEV, Aug. 18 – A judge on Thursday declined a request from imprisoned Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko to be seen by a doctor she can trust after apparently developing mysterious skin symptoms.

VELYKI SOROCHYNTSI (Poltava region), Aug. 18 - President Viktor Yanukovych has predicted "relative stability" in prices of bread.

"We have no grounds to say that bread will significantly grow in price," he told reporters on Wednesday while attending the Sorochyntsi Fair.

KIEV, Aug. 18 - Ukraine would reverse its Odessa-Brody oil pipeline to start moving Venezuelan crude to Belarus if Minsk increases the imports considerably, Transportation and Communications Minister Kostiantyn Yefimenko said Wednesday.