KIEV, April 15 – Ukraine’s chances of getting two installments in one shot from the International Monetary Fund are very slim, according to majority of investment bankers polled by Interfax-Ukraine said.

KIEV, April 15 – Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko declared 386,170 hryvnias in income for 2008, according to her tax declaration obtained and published by Ukrayinska Pravda online newspaper.

KIEV, April 16 - The hryvnia will continue to lose value against the U.S. dollar and the euro over the next 12 months, according to a quarterly survey of businesses released by the National Bank of Ukraine.

KIEV, April 16 – Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s allies blocked the work of Parliament Thursday pressing for investigation into the 2005 death of Ihor Pluzhnikov, the majority owner of Ukraine’s most popular television channel Inter.

KIEV, April 15 –President Viktor Yushchenko and his Greek counterpart Karolos Papoulias, who is on a working visit to Ukraine on April 15-17, have discussed a number of bilateral issues.

KIEV, April 14 – President Viktor Yushchenko said that the reason for inflation in the Ukrainian economy is the absence of structural economic reforms.

KIEV, April 14 – Ukrainian Premier Yulia Tymoshenko has said that inflation in Ukraine will be reined in over five or six months.

"We received the country's economic problems from the previous government - not with galloping inflation, but with record inflation – 17% annual inflation in 2007, and this was record inflation in the world in 2007," she said in an interview with the 1+1 television channel on Sunday night.

KIEV, April 16 - Ukraine's pro-Western government coalition was on the verge of collapse on Wednesday after Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's group suddenly walked out of Parliament, refusing to back an important bill.

KIEV, April 16 - The standoff between President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko turned ugly Wednesday when her group accused the president of "shaming" Ukraine and being the main "threat" to its independence.

KIEV, April 16 ??“ Lithuanian Prime Minister Gediminas Kirkilas said Ukraine and Lithuania have a good chance to expand their economic cooperation, the press service of the Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and Industry reported last week.