KIEV, May 13 - Ukraine's government on Friday expelled two Czech diplomats accused of spying to gain aerospace secrets, DPA reported.

Both were staff members of the Czech Republic's embassy in Kiev and had 'engaged in activities not in keeping with their diplomatic status,' according to a Ukrainian Foreign Ministry statement.

KIEV, May 15 – President Viktor Yushchenko is alarmed with the increase in administrative interference in the agricultural sector and urged the government to lift restrictions on grain and sunflower seed oil exports.

KIEV, May 15 - Ukraine will suggest using its Odessa-Brody oil pipeline for moving Caspian Sea crude to markets in Poland and the Czech Republic, but also in Belarus and Lithuania, a senior official said Thursday.

KIEV, May 15 - Rinat Akhmetov, the wealthiest Ukrainian and a financial sponsor of opposition Regions Party, is one of investors in the off-shore oil exploration project led by U.S. company Vanco Energy, the company announced Thursday.

KIEV, May 15 – Russia will raise the price of natural gas for Ukraine in the second half of 2008, Volodymyr Lanovy, an economist and a former advisor to President Viktor Yushchenko.

KIEV, May 15 - Ukraine will resume exports of uranium after replenishing its strategic reserves with the metal that have been depleted over the past two years, a senior official at EnergoAtom, state nuclear power generator, said.

KIEV, May 15 ??“ Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych??™s Regions Party on Tuesday reacted angrily to a criticism from the office of President Viktor Yushchenko of a local court judge that had recently suspended key presidential decrees.

KIEV, May 15 ??“ Ukrainian Foreign Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk called on the Nordic and Baltic countries, including Finland, Sweden, Norway, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, to support Ukraine's aspirations to join the European Union.

KIEV, May 15 - Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt has said he sees prospects for the development of trade and economic relations between Ukraine and Sweden and has stressed Ukraine's investment potential.

KIEV, May 15 ??“ Pro-Russian groups won control over Parliament in Crimea, Ukraine??™s autonomous republic, and have been seeking to form the local government that could significantly strain relations with Kiev.