KIEV, Sept. 17 - President Viktor Yushchenko's secretariat has forecast that Ukraine's real GDP will shrink by 12.9% and nominal GDP by 8.6% in 2009.

This year's nominal GDP in Ukraine will amount to UAH956.4 billion, according to Oleksandr Shlapak, first deputy head of the presidential secretariat.

KIEV, Sept. 17 – Concerns have been growing on Thursday among the leading figures of Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s government that the next presidential election may get disrupted following an expected ruling by the Constitutional Court.

KIEV, Sept. 17 – In another sign of the deepening rift between Ukraine’s government and its central bank, a senior National Bank of Ukraine official said Thursday that the government must implement all reform measures that have been agreed with the International Monetary Fund or risk missing out on the fund’s next $3.1 billion “standby” loan installment, expected by year end.

KIEV, Sept. 17 – Ukraine's government has not received any official notifications concerning the imposition of economic sanctions on Ukrainian goods, Deputy Prime Minister Hryhoriy Nemyria told the press in Kiev on Tuesday.

KIEV, Sept. 17 – Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s group on Wednesday began official “consultations” with the pro-Russian Regions Party and two other groups over the creation of a new coalition, a Tymoshenko loyalist said.

This comes as Parliamentary Speaker Arseniy Yatseniuk announced his resignation on Wednesday, putting greater pressure on the groups to forge the coalition that would appoint the new speaker.

KIEV, Sept. 17 – President Viktor Yushchenko accused Russia of trying to destabilize Ukraine by encouraging separatists in Crimea, but said Ukraine was too strong to face a Georgia-like invasion.

KIEV, Sept. 17 – Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Wednesday blamed President Viktor Yushchenko for upcoming deterioration of trade with Russia amid signs Moscow has been preparing to strike Ukraine with sanctions for its pro-Western course.

KIEV, Sept. 14 – Thirty hours after its actual suspension, Ukraine’s State Aviation Administration has decided to resume the certificate of Kiev-based Ukrainian Mediterranean Airlines (UM Air), the airline has reported.

KIEV, Sept. 17 – Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych’s Regions Party said Monday it had collected 3 million signatures in support of a controversial referendum to grant Russian language an official status and to reverse Ukraine’s accession to NATO.

KIEV, Sept. 17 - French nuclear engineering concern Novarka will build a $505 million state-of-the-art cover around the damaged nuclear reactor of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, according to a contract signed Monday.