KIEV, May 17 – Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Friday agreed to suspend Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko for a week to let lawmakers investigate his recent detention by German police following his apparently drunken melee in Frankfurt.
KIEV, May 15 – President Viktor Yushchenko plans to hold a high-profile meeting with key Ukrainian political and economic leaders on Monday to discuss the fate of Naftogaz Ukrayiny amid signs of its serious financial trouble.
KIEV, May 16 – Viktor Baloha, a powerful chief of staff at the office of President Viktor Yushchenko, has submitted his resignation, a move that may signal a major change in the president’s domestic policy.
KIEV, May 17 (AP) - The Security Service is investigating allegations of an assassination plot targeting top officials in Ukraine, including President Viktor Yushchenko, a spokeswoman said Thursday.
KIEV, May 17 ??“ The pro-Russian government coalition on Thursday hijacked the Constitutional Court by apparently using coordinated actions across Ukraine to promote its loyalist to the top position.
KIEV, May 17 ??“ Ukraine on Thursday was rapidly drifting towards a major clash between the pro-Western president and the pro-Russian ruling coalition following the collapse of talks that had been aimed at ending political crisis.
KIEV, May 17 ??“ The government has decided to sell some of the assets it purchased from the bankrupt Ukraina bank and transferred to Ukraine's Justice Ministry in 2003.
KIEV, May 17 ??“ Kiev Polytechnic, Ukraine??™s leading university, and Ukraine's State Agency for Investments and Innovations have signed agreement on creation of Kiev Polytechnic Research Park corporation.
KIEV, May 17 ??“ President Viktor Yushchenko appointed one of his toughest managers to oversee developments in Crimea, Ukraine??™s autonomous republic, after pro-Russian groups had won control over local Parliament and had pledged further reshuffling.
KIEV, May 17 ??“ Naftogaz Ukrayiny, the national oil and gas company, has been sharply lagging behind the schedule in building up winter gas reserves that may undermine its gas distribution business, a newspaper reported.
