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Energy issues to be main subject of Ukrainian president's meetings in Davos, says his spokesperson
10:26
17.01.2012Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych is planning to participate in an annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos (Switzerland), and most of the president's meetings will be dedicated to energy issues, his spokesperson, Darya Chepak, has said.
Lawmakers not allowed to visit Tymoshenko
18:59
16.01.2012MP Olena Shustik and MP Olha Bodnar (both of the BYT-Batkivschyna faction) have said they were not allowed to meet with former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who is held in Kachanivska penal colony in Kharkiv.
Ukraine should appeal to Stockholm Arbitration Court against amount of gas supplies under contract with Russia, says Bohoslovska
17:45
16.01.2012Ukraine will not manage to complete the negotiations on the contract for supplies of natural gas before the presidential election in Russia, but it could appeal against a part of it to the Stockholm Arbitration Court, Regions Party parliamentary faction MP and the head of the Verkhovna Rada's ad hoc commission for inquiry into the circumstances of the conclusion of the 2009 gas agreements between Ukraine and Russia, Inna Bohoslovska, has said.
Ukrainian premier, parliamentary speaker to visit Latvia soon, says Foreign Ministry
17:10
16.01.2012Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kostiantyn Hryschenko and his Latvian counterpart Edgars Rinkevics have agreed that Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov and Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn will visit Latvia soon.
International NGOs urge authorities of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia to take measures to protect journalists
16:09
16.01.2012The international human rights organizations Article 19 and International Media Support (IMS) have called on the authorities of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia to take every legal and political measure needed to protect journalists and defend the right to freedom of expression in these countries.
Foreign Ministry: Two Ukrainians rescued from ship that sank off cost of Albania
15:00
16.01.2012Two Ukrainian citizens, crewmembers of the Edirne, a Turkish tanker that sank off the coast of Albania on January 15, have been hospitalized, but there is no threat to their health and lives, Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleksandr Dykusarov has said.
Azarov: Gas price in Ukraine five times higher than in US
13:27
16.01.2012Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has said that the price of gas for Ukraine is five times higher than in the United States.
Tymoshenko's lawyer insists on legality of closure of case on use of Somolli Enterprises' bank cards
12:24
16.01.2012Borys Nechyporenko, a lawyer for former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, has filed a complaint at the High Administrative Court of Ukraine against the decision to declare illegal the closure of a criminal case against his client regarding the use of the bank cards of Somolli Enterprises Limited.
Kachanivska penal colony head denies information on alleged transfer of Tymoshenko to Kyiv
16:17
14.01.2012The head of Kachanivska penal colony where former Ukrainian premier Yulia Tymoshenko is staying, Ivan Pervushkin, has denied information appeared in the Ukrainian mass media that Tymoshenko was transferred to Lukyanivka prison in Kyiv.
Olympic water sports center to be built in Kyiv
15:12
14.01.2012An Olympic water sports center will be built on the Trukhanov Island in Kyiv.
Some 30 Ukrainians were on board of sinking Costa Concordia cruise ship, says foreign ministry
13:19
14.01.2012There were around 30 Ukrainian passengers on board of the Costa Concordia cruise ship hit a reef off the Italian coast. No Ukrainian was injured, the press secretary of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, Oleksandr Dykusarov, has told Interfax-Ukraine.
Yanukovych: No country has offered assistance to Ukraine to resolve 'gas issue'
18:33
13.01.2012Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has said that the country has to resolve the question of the high price of Russian gas on its own and received no assistance from other states.
Ukraine forced to cut volume of gas imported from Russia, prepared for this - Yanukovych
18:13
13.01.2012Ukraine has been forced to cut the volume of gas imported from Russia almost by half, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych said.
Rivne among top 10 medium-sized European cities in terms of economic efficiency
16:52
13.01.2012The Ukrainian regional center of Rivne ranks among top ten European cities and regions in a study entitled "European Cities & Regions of the Future 2012/13."
Volume of gas shipments main point of dispute in Ukrainian-Russian talks on GTS, says Energy Minister Boiko
14:27
13.01.2012Russia's position on creating additional facilities for the shipment of its natural gas to European customers doesn't suit Ukraine, Energy and Coal Industry Minister of Ukraine Yuriy Boiko told journalists in Kyiv on Friday.
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