KYIV, Jan 29 – The international anti-corruption organization Transparency International has published the results of the survey "Corruption Perceptions Index 2018," in which Ukraine ranked 120th among 180 countries of the world.

KYIV, Jan 29 - President Petro Poroshenko has launched his campaign for re-election in March’s vote, which promises to be a bitter contest between him and a former prime minister.

KYIV, Jan 25 - The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has not yet discussed the opening of a new cooperation program for the country with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Acting Head of the NBU Yakiv Smolii said.

KYIV, Jan 26 – President Petro Poroshenko expects that by April the country will receive the next tranche from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), as Ukraine has already fulfilled 80% of its commitments.

KYIV, Jan 25 - The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has improved its forecast for Ukraine's gross domestic product growth for 2018 to 3.4% from 3.2%, according to the central bank's website.

KYIV, Jan. 28 - U.S. suggestions on deploying a UN mission in war-ravaged eastern Ukraine look quite feasible and Russia will study them carefully, Kremlin aide Vladislav Surkov was quoted as saying by Russian media after meeting with his American counterpart, Kurt Volker, RFE/RL reported.

KYIV, Jan 29 - The Ministry of Health signed a memorandum with the American Society for Clinical Pathology, which stipulates the provision of support to Ukrainian specialists in laboratory diagnostics, the press service of the ministry has reported.

KIEV, Jan. 26 – Protesters have barred empty train cars designed for coal transportation in the Luhansk region and this action threatens energy safety of the whole of Ukraine, Luhansk Regional Military and Civil Administration's head Yuriy Harbuz said.

KIEV, Jan. 26 - The International Monetary Fund will decide on the date of a meeting of the Executive Board on the third revision of the EFF program after the memorandum of cooperation with Ukraine is finalized, IMF spokesperson William Murray said.

KIEV, Jan. 27 – The VoxUkraine independent analytical platform has conducted a study under the index for monitoring of reforms (iMoRe) project concerning reforms conducted by Ukrainian ministries.

"The general situation is how reforms were conducted in the past two years. If briefly, the reform pace is slowing, at least, in amendments to legislation," reads the study presented at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine on Thursday.