KIEV, Aug. 18 – Ukraine on Wednesday postponed for seven days its decision on grain export quotas, with government officials arguing more time was needed to investigate the issue.

KIEV, Aug. 17 - Ukraine's Q2 GDP dropped 18% year-on-year in like-for-like value, according to early estimates provided by the State Statistics Committee.

"The publication of the express bulletin 'GDP and Gross National Revenue of Ukraine for the second quarter of 2009' is slated for September 30, 2009," the committee said.

KIEV, Aug. 18 – President Viktor Yushchenko said Tuesday that continued purchases of Treasury bills by the National Bank of Ukraine may undermine the stability of the hryvnia, the local currency.

KIEV, Aug. 18 – President Viktor Yushchenko will “obviously” skip the next summit of leaders of the Commonwealth of Independent States following a sharp exchange with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Parliamentary Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn said Tuesday.

KIEV, Aug. 15 – Ukraine by August 15 had harvested 40.918 million tons of early grain and leguminous crops, which was 79% up on August 17, 2007, from 95% of the area under cultivation.

KIEV, Aug. 15 – A huge shortage of personnel undermines the innovative development of Ukraine, Volodymyr Halytsky, the director of the State Employment Office of Ukraine, has said in an interview with the Dzerkalo Tyzhnia newspaper.

HALYCH, Aug. 18 - Speaking to journalists in Halych, Ivano-Frankivsk region, President Victor Yushchenko criticized the government for protracting the adoption of a plan of financing the reconstruction of facilities in the flood-hit region.

KIEV, Aug. 15 - Foreign direct investment in Ukraine totaled $6.918 billion in the first half of 2008, up almost 170% from the same period of 2007, the State Statistics Committee said.

KIEV, Aug. 18 – Ukraine has resolute plans to enter the foreign debt market in 2008 and this is most likely to happen in September or October, when the situation on the international market improves, First Deputy Finance Minister Ihor Umansky said.

KIEV, Aug. 18 – President Viktor Yushchenko’s office alleged Monday that Moscow plans to spend $1 billion to support Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko at the next presidential election in Ukraine in exchange for her pro-Russian stance.