KIEV, March 15 - A Ukrainian court convicted three former police officers on Saturday of killing Heorhiy Gongadze, an investigative journalist, almost eight years ago.

KIEV, March 14 - President Viktor Yushchenko on Friday approved in principle a natural gas supply deal reached earlier this week in Moscow between Gazprom and Naftogaz Ukrayiny, the national oil and gas company.

KIEV, March 16 ??“ Ukraine will seek better and more pragmatic relations with Russia by appointing an experienced bureaucrat as the new ambassador to Russia, Prime Minister Yuriy Yekhanurov said.

TBILISI, March 16 ??“ The European Union, Ukraine and Georgia have been studying construction of a $2 billion natural gas pipeline that would get them access to Central Asian gas bypassing Russia, a newswire reported Thursday.

KIEV, March 16 ??“ Ukrainian commercial banks have almost tripled borrowing on international markets through issues of Eurobonds to $650 million in 2005, UkrSibBank, the country??™s No. 5 bank by assets, reported Thursday.

KIEV, March 16 ??“ Ukraine plans to use its recently received market economy status to defend its exports of steel pipes to Europe that has come under threat due to and opened anti-dumping investigation.

MINSK, March 16 - A contract on delivery of Belarusian gasoline and diesel fuel to Ukraine may be signed in mid-April, Belarusian First Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Semashko told Interfax.

KIEV, March 15 ??“ Twenty five big Ukrainian companies, mostly steelmakers and coal miners, urged the government Tuesday against a major tariff increase on railroad cargo shipments, suggesting the hike may stall economic growth.

KIEV, March 15 ??“ Ukraine??™s economic growth steeply slowed down in February as the government struggled with launching economic reforms and re-drafting a 2005 budget that may have otherwise reinvigorated the expansion.

MUNICH, Feb 16 - President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he directed his ministers not to sign off on a proposed agreement to give the United States access to Ukraine’s rare earth minerals because the document was too focused on U.S. interests.