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.

KIEV, Jan. 29 - Ukraine’s National Committee for Power Regulation (NCPR), the government’s energy sector regulating body, on Thursday moved to increase by 75.4% natural gas prices for the industrial sector in 2009, the committee reported.

KIEV, Jan. 29 - Ukraine’s top security body, chaired by President Viktor Yushchenko, again delayed its scheduled meeting to review the recent natural gas deal with Russia, Yushchenko’s press service reported Thursday.