KIEV, Sept. 13 – The TVi Channel has received permission to continue its foreign economic activities, the channel's director general, Mykola Kniazhytsky, told Channel 5.

He said the Economic Development and Trade Ministry cancelled its sanctions.

KIEV, Sept. 14 – The draft national budget for 2013 which has been approved by the Cabinet of Ministers is another pre-election budget of the Regions Party, the head of the council of the Batkivschyna United Opposition, Arseniy Yatseniuk, has said.

Kiev, Sept. 14 - Ukraine examines other options of using its massive natural gas pipeline system for moving energy to the European Union, not only a joint venture with Russia, President Viktor Yanukovych said Friday.

KIEV, Sept. 15 - The United States warned Ukraine on Saturday the prosecution of opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko was damaging its ties with the West.

KIEV, Sept. 16 – Police on Thursday stopped a group of demonstrators marching to remember journalist Heorhiy Gongadze, who was murdered exactly 10 years ago.

KIEV, Sept. 16 – Four judges, mostly from regions strongly favoring President Viktor Yanukovych, were elected for nomination to the Constitutional Court by a panel of judges on Thursday.

KIEV, Sept. 16 – Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Wednesday appointed Oleksandr Savchenko, the recently resigned central banker, as a deputy finance minister.

KIEV, Sept. 14 – President Viktor Yushchenko has complained about the non-transparency of the financial liabilities and agreements that Ukraine has taken on under the Geneva agreements on the introduction of digital television that it signed in 2006.

KIEV, Sept. 15 – The cost of the presidential campaign could be up to $1 billion, according to Denys Bogush, vice president of the Ukrainian PR-League.

"The main candidates might spend more, but not less. The cost of these elections will be up to $1 billion," he said.

ASHGABAT, Sept. 15 – The foreign ministries of Ukraine and Turkmenistan signed a protocol on cooperation after talks in Ashgabat on Tuesday.

In addition, the agriculture ministries of Ukraine and Turkmenistan signed an agreement on cooperation in the field of testing and protecting sorts of plants.