KIEV, Dec. 12 – Five-year loan extensions, a transfer to payments under annuity schemes and provision of grace periods are the key ways for the restructuring of borrowers' debts which were discussed by Prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko and the leadership of the National Bank of Ukraine with bankers in Kiev on Thursday.

WARSAW, Dec. 12 - Ukraine may lose the right to co-host the UEFA Euro 2012 championships with Poland, which will be able to organize the tournament on its own, said Michel Platini, president of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), as cited by Polish daily Dziennik.

KIEV, Dec. 12 – Parliament plans to introduce a 12% temporarily targeted surcharge to import duties on some types of meat, alcohol, light industry products, fats, butter and cars for six months.

KIEV, Dec. 12 – Ukraine is on the right track in implementing policies it had committed to when accepting an emergency loan to survive its worst economic crisis in a decade, an official from the International Monetary Fund said in an interview published Friday.

KIEV, Dec. 14 - The Ukrainian government has set new grain export quotas for the current agricultural year (July 2006-June 2007) that take effect on Dec. 14.

KIEV, Dec. 14 ??“ President Viktor Yushchenko has called on Estonian businessmen to step up their activities on the Ukrainian market, the presidential press service reported.

ASTANA, Dec. 14 - Kazakh Prime Minister Danial Akhmetov and his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovych have signed a joint statement giving the go-ahead for Ukrainian companies' participation in projects to build nuclear power plants in Kazakhstan.

ASTANA, Dec. 14 - Ukraine and Kazakhstan are in talks to jointly develop crude deposits oil in the Central Asia, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych said after meeting Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev Thursday.

???There is a number of concrete proposals for Ukraine to get involved in developing oil deposits in Central Asia,??? Yanukovych said. ???Today, we??™ve discussed these concrete proposals.???

KIEV, Dec. 14 ??“ Parliament, led by the pro-government coalition, on Thursday refused to dismiss Ihor Drizhchaniy, the head of the SBU security service, in an apparent backlash to President Viktor Yushchenko??™s veto on the 2007 budget.

KIEV, Dec. 14 ??“ President Viktor Yushchenko said Thursday that Ukrainian law enforcement agencies collected sufficient evidence to arrest a group of people that had allegedly poisoned him in September 2004 ahead of dramatic presidential election.