BRUSSELS, Oct. 15 – A European Parliament mission observer, former Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski, has said he is confident that the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement will be signed at a summit in Vilnius and that the question of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's treatment will be resolved in the legal field in a way that will be acceptable to everyone.

KIEV, Oct. 16 – Ukraine’s largest opposition party, Batkivshchyna, on Wednesday nominated four candidates to run for seats in Parliament at special elections due on December 15.

KIEV, Oct. 16 – Parliament Human Rights Commissioner Valeriya Lutkovska has called on President Viktor Yanukovych to veto the bill on the introduction of biometric passports and return it to Parliament for revision by experts.

KIEV, Oct. 16 – An obligatory requirement to additionally label medicine and insert dosage information in the regional language or languages of minority groups is not in line with state policy in the healthcare sector, according to the Ukrainian representative office of the American Chamber of Commerce.

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.