KIEV, Nov. 15 – The deficit of the national budget in 2010 will be 5.5% of gross domestic product and in 2011 will be 3.5% of GDP, forecasts Prime Minister Mykola Azarov.

ABU DHABI, Nov. 16 – Ukraine needs investment from the United Arab Emirates, President Viktor Yushchenko said at a meeting with businessmen from the Gulf in Abu Dhabi on Monday.

"The fact that Ukraine will be hosting the Euro 2012 creates opportunities for investor interaction," the president said.

KIEV, Nov. 16 - The Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers hopes that "an end has not yet been put to cooperation with the International Monetary Fund," First Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Turchynov said.

MOSCOW, Nov. 16 - The European Union and Russia on Monday agreed to an "early warning" mechanism to shield Europe from potential energy supply cuts in the event of a Russia-Ukraine gas dispute, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Nov. 16 – President Viktor Yushchenko on Monday vetoed a bill that had called for one billion hryvnias to be printed by the National Bank of Ukraine to fight the spreading flu epidemic.

CHISINAU, Nov. 14 - Russia and Ukraine should coordinate efforts in facing the global economic turmoil, given that enterprises in the two former Soviet republics were still economically linked, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Friday.

MOSCOW, Nov 14 - Russia will quit the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty if Ukraine and Georgia join NATO, Interfax reported on Friday citing a high-ranking military-diplomatic source in Moscow.

KIEV, Nov. 14 – Arseniy Yatseniuk, who was dismissed as parliamentary speaker on Wednesday, plans to create his own political party, a move that may allow him to run independently at upcoming snap election.

KIEV, Nov. 13 – President Viktor Yushchenko will pay a working visit to Azerbaijan in February-March 2009.

The arrangement was confirmed during Yushchenko's meeting with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Baku on Thursday, according to the press service of the Ukrainian president.

KIEV, Nov. 14 - The creation of a single energy transit space of the Caspian, Black and Baltic seas "should be protected from any attempts of political or any other pressure," President Viktor Yushchenko told a meeting of the fourth Energy Summit in Baku on Friday.