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Court of appeals upholds Tymoshenko's sentence in gas case
13:53
23.12.2011Kyiv's Court of Appeals has upheld the sentence passed by the Pechersky District Court of Kyiv, under which former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was sentenced to seven years in prison for abuse of office in signing gas supply contracts with Russia in 2009.
Kliuyev: Technical verification of text of EU-Ukraine association agreement in terms of FTA completed
11:42
23.12.2011The technical verification of the text of the draft association agreement between Ukraine and the EU in terms of the creation of a deep and comprehensive free trade area was completed in Brussels on December 22, Ukrainian First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economic Development and Trade Andriy Kliuyev told reporters on Friday.
Ukrainian gas transport system to lose value with launch of Nord, South Stream - Yanukovych
09:27
23.12.2011Ukraine will pump less gas due to construction of the Nord Stream and South Stream gas pipelines, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych said in an interview with the newspaper Izvestiya published on Friday.
Eleven Ukrainians aboard arms-laden ship detained in Finland, according to Foreign Ministry's update
19:59
22.12.2011The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has reported that none of the eleven Ukrainian crewmembers from the M/S Thor Liberty vessel, which carried U.S. missiles and explosives, has been arrested.
Rada endorses president's decree to send peacekeepers to Democratic Republic of Congo
18:58
22.12.2011The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has approved the decision of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to send a peacekeeping contingent to participate in the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Ukraine's parliament adopts state budget for 2012
17:52
22.12.2011The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passed the law on the national budget for 2012 at second reading on Thursday.
Rada refuses to put issue of decriminalizing charges against Tymoshenko on agenda
16:46
22.12.2011Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has refused to put on its agenda the issue of decriminalizing Article 365 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, under which Ukraine's premier Yulia Tymoshenko was convicted.
Batkivschyna to run for 2012 parliamentary elections with its own party list, form majority with Front for Change in parliament, says Sobolev
14:49
22.12.2011The leader of the opposition government and BYT-Batkivschyna faction, MP Serhiy Sobolev, has described as positive the intention by the Front for Change and For Ukraine! parties to unite their efforts during the campaign before the parliamentary elections scheduled for 2012.
Parliament could consider decriminalization of Tymoshenko article at evening sitting on Thursday, says Lytvyn
14:29
22.12.2011The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, will decide at its evening sitting on Thursday whether it would consider a bill on the decriminalization of Article 365 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine under which former Ukrainian Premier Yulia Tymoshenko was convicted.
Tymoshenko won't appeal her gas case sentence
11:47
22.12.2011Ex-Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, sentenced by the Kyiv Pechersky District Court to seven years in the gas case, says she will take no part in hearings of the Kyiv Court of Appeals.
Tymoshenko's defense team refuses to attend court hearings into appeal against gas case verdict
11:13
22.12.2011The defense team of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko will no longer participate in a court session on the consideration of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's appeal against the gas case verdict, her defense lawyer, Serhiy Vlasenko, has said.
Ukraine's cabinet approves 2012 draft budget based on gas price of $416 per 1,000 cubic meters
20:53
21.12.2011The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has approved a draft national budget for 2012, which is based on the current natural gas contracts, Agrarian Policy Minister Mykola Prysiazhniuk told reporters on Wednesday.
President creates state service for regulatory policy and development of entrepreneurship
19:17
21.12.2011Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has formed the State Service for Regulatory Policy and Development of Entrepreneurship.
FEMEN to stage another protest in Belarus
18:42
21.12.2011Ukrainian FEMEN activists are intending to stage another protest in Belarus.
Attorney of Gongadze's widow appeals closure of criminal case against Kuchma
16:35
21.12.2011Valentyna Telychenko, the lawyer of journalist Georgy Gongadze's widow Myroslava Gongadze, has lodged an appeal with Kyiv Court of Appeals against a ruling by Kyiv Pechersky District Court to close a criminal case against Ukraine's second president (1994-2005) Leonid Kuchma on suspicion of his involvement in the journalist's murder.
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