Kyiv, Dec. 5 (Interfax-Ukraine) - Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko, at a meeting with Interior Minister and People's Self-Defense Leader Yuriy Lutsenko, demanded that his political force support the candidacy of Ivan Pliusch for the post of Verkhovna Rada speaker, otherwise, he said he would sign a decree dissolving the parliament.Full Story Today, 11:39 | Interfax-Ukraine
Kyiv, December 5 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Head of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security and Defense Anatoliy Hrytsenko has confirmed his earlier statement that Ukraine should withdraw its bid to receive the NATO Membership Action Plan.Full Story Today, 12:21 | Interfax-Ukraine
Kyiv, Dec. 5 (Interfax-Ukraine) - The Ukrainian football club Shakhtar Donetsk received EUR 372,513 for the participation of its players in the finals of the Euro 2008 European Football Championship in Austria and Switzerland this year.Full Story Today, 11:57 | Interfax-Ukraine
Kyiv, Dec. 5 (Interfax-Ukraine) - Ukrainian Transport and Communications Minister Yosyp Vinskiy has said he is ready to resign if this helps prevent a coalition comprising the Yulia TymoshenkoBloc and the Party of Regions .Full Story Today, 09:56 | Interfax-Ukraine
Kyiv (Interfax-Ukraine) – Ukraine is ready to support and to use all the elements of the Eastern Partnership program if it is not presented as an alternative to European Union membership, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has said.Full Story Yesterday, 19:09 | Interfax-Ukraine
Kyiv (Interfax-Ukraine) – Only entry to the NATO security system can guarantee the protection of Ukraine's sovereignty, Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko has said.Full Story Yesterday, 18:03 | Interfax-Ukraine
Kyiv, Dec. 4 (Interfax-Ukraine) - Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko and Tajik Emomali Rahmon said they are satisfied with the development of relations between their states at a joint press conference in Kyiv on Thursday.Full Story Yesterday, 16:32 | Interfax-Ukraine
KYIV, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Ukraine's parliament, functioning for weeks without a working coalition or a chairman, on Thursday invited the president and prime minister to a sitting next week to break a deadlock paralysing the country's institutions.Full Story Yesterday, 16:11 | Reuters
Ukraine's headless parliament failed to get any work done for the third day in a row as legislators continued backroom coalition talks.Full Story Yesterday, 15:00 | Staff reports, Kyiv Post
Simferopol, Dec. 4 (Interfax) - Russian Consul General in Simferopol Igor Astakhov does not see factors that could lead to a dramatic decline in relations between Russia and Ukraine and believes attempts to create tensions in these relations have no prospects.Full Story Yesterday, 14:42 | Interfax-Ukraine
MOSCOW (AP) _ Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned Ukraine on Thursday that Russia will reduce gas supplies to Ukraine if it tries to siphon Russian gas intended for European consumers.Full Story Yesterday, 14:37 | Associated PressArchive