KIEV, Oct. 16 – Prime Minister and of the Regions Party Chairman Mykola Azarov has rejected allegations of the use of administrative leverage by the Regions Party during the 2012 election campaign.

KIEV, Oct. 16 - Ukraine has 3 million metric tons in coal production surplus this year, but weak coal prices internationally restrict its exports, President Viktor Yanukovych said Tuesday.

KIEV, Oct. 16 - Ukraine denied being protectionist on Tuesday as 58 countries attacked its plan to renegotiate hundreds of tariff ceilings at the World Trade Organization, Reuters reported.

MOSCOW/KIEV, Oct. 13 - The criminal case against former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko in relation to the $405 million debt to the Russian Defense Ministry for the supply of construction materials in exchange for gas, has been dropped in Russia due to the expiration of statute of limitations, a source familiar with the situation told Interfax.

LVIV, Oct. 13 – Parliament may again consider the issue of daylight saving time in Ukraine, Parliamentary Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn said.

"I think it's necessary to consider this issue calmly, and reach the kind of decision people need. I think if a wrong decision was taken, then nothing terrible will happen if we admit [it]," Lytvyn said at a press conference in Lviv.

KIEV, Oct. 13 – The signing of an agreement on the creation of a free trade area within the Commonwealth of Independent States should be the main achievement of the next summit of the CIS heads of government, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said.

KIEV, Oct. 14 – Ukraine will have to attract labor migrants if its demographic recession continues, the International Migration Organization stated.

KIEV, Oct. 14 - Two thirds of Ukrainian citizens (66.3%) disapprove of Viktor Yanukovych's activities as president and 73.2% are dissatisfied with Mykola Azarov's performance as prime minister, according to an opinion poll, conducted in October by the Ukrainian Democratic Circle pollster.

KIEV, Oct. 14 - The leaders of three central European countries will oppose Ukraine's efforts to integrate into the European Union as long as the former Soviet country keeps opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko in jail, Reuters reported Friday.

KIEV, Oct. 14 – Parliament Speaker Arseniy Yatseniuk, who was acting governor of the Ukrainian central bank during the Orange Revolution in the fall of 2004, advocates nationalization of commercial banks facing problems in the wake of global financial turmoil.