KIEV, April 18 – President Viktor Yanukovych assured European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso on Monday that Ukraine is determined to complete comprehensive talks on political association and free trade with the EU before the end of the year.
KIEV, April 18 – A special Parliamentary committee will investigate an escalating conflict between the owner of Kyiv Post weekly newspaper and journalists that have declared an indefinite strike over alleged censorship attempts.
KIEV, April 16 - The Ukrainian government plans to issue UAH 20 billion in bonds to compensate value-added tax, Deputy Prime Minister Sergiy Tigipko said at a meeting of the European Association of Business in Kiev on Thursday.
KIEV, April 16 – The International Monetary Fund has asked the Ukrainian authorities to increase discount rate, toughen bank refinancing policy, bolster the independence of the National Bank of Ukraine and increase protection of creditors' rights.
KIEV, April 16 – Despite changes in the course of the Danube River, there are no grounds to change the Ukrainian-Romanian border and transfer Ukraine's Maikan Island to Romania, since the border line was confirmed by both sides in an agreement regarding the regime of the Ukrainian-Romanian border, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said.
KIEV, April 18 – President Viktor Yanukovych, former President Viktor Yushchenko and former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Sunday attended the funeral Polish President Lech Kaczynski, who died in a plane crash on April 10.
KIEV, April 16 - Ukraine and Russia on Friday made “certain progress” in talks over re-negotiating a 10-year natural gas supply agreement towards lowering gas prices, the Ukrainian government said in a statement.
The statement was issued hours after the talks between Energy and Fuel Minister Yuriy Boyko and Gazprom CEO Alexey Miller in Moscow.
KIEV, April 18 – President Viktor Yanukovych’s government is delaying important economic reforms and seeking to rely on borrowing to meet a huge budget deficit this year, Viktor Pynzenyk, a former finance minister, said Sunday.
KIEV, April 18 - Ukraine's opposition urged supporters on Wednesday to stage a non-stop rally akin to the 2004 "Orange Revolution" to press for a parliamentary election, deepening a crisis that has engulfed the country.
