KIEV, Jan. 29 – A former top police officer on Tuesday was sentenced to life in prison for murdering an investigative journalist 12.5 years ago, but the court failed to determine who had ordered the killing.

DAVOS, Jan. 26 - Ukraine is not planning to quarrel with anybody, either about the diversification of supplies of energy resources to Ukraine or the creation of a gas transport consortium, President Viktor Yanukovych said.

KIEV, Jan. 26 – The talks between Ukraine and the International Monetary Fund will continue in two or three weeks, Deputy Prime Minister and Social Policy Minister Serhiy Tyhypko said.

"We agreed that we would continue these negotiations in two or three weeks. Both sides are preparing for this," he said at a press conference in Kiev on Thursday.

KIEV, Jan. 26 – Winter crops on around 30% of the fields in Ukraine do not have an adequate blanket of snow, so they could be damaged by the current severe frost, according to the head of the agricultural meteorology department of the Ukrainian Weather Center, Tetiana Adamenko.

KIEV, Jan. 27 – Investigators will question former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko as part of the "Lazarenko case" after former Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko returns from the United States later this year, Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka said.

DAVOS, Jan. 27 — Ukraine’s president showed no mercy Friday for imprisoned former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, despite increasing fears that her case will hurt his country’s struggling economy and its relations with the European Union.

KIEV, Jan. 27 - The Russian side is to blame for the lack of results on talks on the division of the Azov - Black Sea region and Kerch Strait, the Director of the First Territorial Department in the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Leonid Osavoliuk said on Tuesday.

KIEV, Jan. 29 – President Viktor Yushchenko has said that Russia has triggered the gas conflict to put the Ukrainian gas transportation system under the control of Gazprom.

"In other words, to repeat, what has been done in the gas transport systems of Moldova and Belarus in recent years.

KIEV, Jan. 29 – The situation on the Ukrainian monetary and currency markets and in the banking sector remains under control, Anatoliy Shapovalov, acting governor of the National Bank of Ukraine, told the press on Wednesday.

KIEV, Jan. 29 – The state commission for financial service market regulation has asked the National Bank of Ukraine to consider reports of the non-return of expired deposits of insurance companies by Nadra Bank and Finance&Credit Bank, and inform the commission on measures taken.