KIEV, May 16 – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said he will seek to persuade his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovych on Monday in Kiev to accept some form of merger between Gazprom and Naftogaz Ukrayiny.

KIEV, May 16 ??“ The Ukrainian government at a meeting on Wednesday cancelled quotas on wheat exports, Deputy Prime MInister Viktor Slauta told journalists after the meeting.

BERLIN, May 16 (UPI) - Ukraine needs early election as soon as possible and a culture of political consensus to make real progress, according to a group of experts from the United States and Europe.

KIEV, May 16 (Reuters) - Ukraine's feuding president and prime minister failed again on Wednesday to agree on a date for an election, prolonging political uncertainty.

KIEV, May 16 ??“ Ukraine is holding informal talks with the European Union on the creation of a free trade zone, Economy Minister Anatoliy Kinakh said during hearings in Parliament.

KIEV, May 16 - Ukraine??™s rampant imports this year have been widening the country??™s trade deficit to ???critical??? level, Anatoliy Kinakh, the top security advisor to President Viktor Yushchenko, said Tuesday.

KIEV, May 16 - GUAM, a pro-Western regional group involving Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova and Azerbaijan, will probably change its name next week as the group transforms into a full-fledged international organization, an official said Tuesday.

KIEV, May 16 - Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Tuesday backtracked on her earlier plan to give the crucial parliamentary speaker post to the Socialist Party after Our Ukraine had threatened to suspend coalition talks.

KIEV, May 15 - The Ukrainian government approved 651.3 million hryvnias in 5-year spending to help settle returning Crimean Tatars and other ethnic groups that had been displaced by the Communist regime in the former Soviet Union.

MINSK, May 15 - Belarusian opposition activists appealed to Ukraine on Monday to offer some state university places to Belarusian students expelled from their own universities for protesting against their country's authoritarian leader.