Other Sources, Ukraine

Lutsk city council calling for early parliamentary elections, urges Yanukovych to withdraw his signature from Kharkiv agreement Lutsk city council has called for early elections to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and urged Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to withdraw his signature from the Kharkiv agreement.
May 1, 2010 at 18:51 | Interfax-Ukraine
Ukrainian environmentalists requesting from parliament information on Black Sea Fleet's ecological threats Ukrainian environmentalists have signed a letter addressed to the Verkhovna Rada's leadership, requesting the information about possible threats, which the Russian Black Sea Fleet may pose to Crimea's environment.
May 1, 2010 at 18:48 | Interfax-Ukraine
Medvedev instructs defense minister to draw up social development plan for Sevastopol naval base Sochi, May 1 (Interfax) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has instructed Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov to draw up a social development plan for the Black Sea Fleet naval base in Ukraine
May 1, 2010 at 17:42 | Interfax-Ukraine
Tymoshenko's bloc to initiate vote of non-confidence in Lviv, Ternopil regional governors Ukraine's opposition leader and former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko has said that her bloc's faction in Lviv and Ternopil regional councils will initiate a vote of non-confidence in regional governors due to their anti-Ukrainian actions.
May 1, 2010 at 17:38 | Interfax-Ukraine
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Russia's Ukraine Gas bombshell draws outcry, skepticism Ukrainians and energy experts are still reeling from Russia's offer to merge its Gazprom gas monopoly with Ukraine's state energy firm, Naftogaz.
Ties between Moscow and Kyiv have significantly warmed since Kremlin ally Viktor Yanukovych became Ukrainian president in February. Both sides have already signed a deal on gas pricing and a landmark lease extension for a Russian naval base in Ukraine's Crimea. Read the story here.
May 1, 2010 at 17:19
EU hands over 128 people to Ukraine in the first quarter of 2009 under readmission agreement The European Union handed 128 illegal immigrants to Ukraine under an agreement on the readmission in the first quarter of this year, chairman of the State Border Service Mykola Lytvyn has said.
May 1, 2010 at 17:00 | Interfax-Ukraine
Ukraine's defense minister hoping for increase in army's budget in August-September Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Yezhel doesn't rule out that in August or September the budget of the Armed Forces of Ukraine may be increased, the press service of Defense Ministry reported on Saturday.
May 1, 2010 at 16:39 | Interfax-Ukraine
Lytvyn: Ukrainian opposition's plans for early parliamentary elections futile Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn is confident that the opposition would be unable to secure early parliamentary elections
May 1, 2010 at 16:32 | Interfax-Ukraine
Turchynov: Ukraine facing threat of losing sovereignty Former Ukrainian First Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Turchynov, one of the leaders of the Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko, has criticized the idea to unite Russia's gas giant Gazprom and the Ukrainian national JSC Naftogaz Ukrainy as threatening the country's sovereignty.
May 1, 2010 at 16:28 | Interfax-Ukraine
Dzerkalo Tyzhnia: Russian Black Sea Fleet to lease Crimean land under package deal contrary to Ukraine's legislation According to a source of the Dzerkalo Tyzhnia (the Mirror Weekly) Newspaper, the Russian Black Sea Fleet will be leasing land in Crimea on the basis of a package contract, which conflicts with the Ukrainian legislation.
May 1, 2010 at 14:42 | Interfax-Ukraine
Yanukovych asks government to draw up amendments to constitution in line with Venice Commission's findings Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has asked the government to draw up a bill amending the Ukrainian constitution in line with the Venice Commission's findings and Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) recommendations and submit it to the Verkhovna Rada for consideration, the presidential press service reported on Friday.
May 1, 2010 at 14:00 | Interfax-Ukraine
Lytvyn: New Black Sea Fleet accord to play down separatism in Crimea The ratification of an agreement to extend the Black Sea Fleet's presence on the Ukrainian territory until 2042 will play down separatist sentiments in Crimea.
May 1, 2010 at 13:41 | Interfax-Ukraine
Voice of Russia: New Russian-Ukrainian projects Russia’s biggest oil and gas corporation Gazprom and Ukraine’s energy company Naftogaz are due to take up their likely merger shortly. Russia will be able specifically to invest in both production and the servicing of the system of Ukraine’s gas pipelines. Naftogaz will, for its part, get access to Russian gas reserves. This came in a sensational statement by the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin that he made when ending his meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart Nikolai Azarov. Read the story here.
May 1, 2010 at 13:31
Russian ambassador to Ukraine: If Ukraine withdraws from gas/fleet deal, Russia's rent payment will increase its national debt Sochi, May 1 (Interfax) - Kyiv's possible withdrawal from the Kharkiv agreements with Moscow could turn the money paid by Russia as rent for the Black Sea Fleet base in Sevastopol into Ukraine's state debt, Russian Ambassador to Ukraine Mikhail Zurabov said.
May 1, 2010 at 13:00 | Interfax-Ukraine
Putin's spokesman: Gazprom-Naftogaz merger would guarantee loading of Ukrainian gas pipe Moscow, May 1 (Interfax) - Russia's proposal on merging Gazprom and Naftogaz Ukrainy would guarantee the loading of the Ukrainian gas transport system against the background of the South Stream project's implementation, Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Russian prime minister, said on Kommersant FM radio station on Friday.
May 1, 2010 at 12:48 | Interfax-Ukraine