KIEV, April 28 – The co-founder of Swiss-registered gas trader RosUkrEnergo (RUE), Dmytro Firtash, says he has not received any documents from the U.S. courts in connection with a lawsuit allegedly filed against him by former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko concerning a dispute in a Stockholm court between RUE and Naftogaz Ukrainy.

BAKU, April 28 - Ukraine and Azerbaijan on Thursday began consultations seeking to join forces in setting up supplies of liquefied natural gas to markets in Europe.

President Viktor Yanukovych, who sees LNG supplies as a priority project over the next five years, traveled to Baku for a meeting with his Azeri counterpart Ilkham Aliyev to begin the consultations.

MOSCOW, April 28 - Ukraine and Russia on Thursday began formal negotiations aimed at amending the 10-year natural gas supply agreement signed in 2009 in response to Kiev’s
persistent demands for lower natural gas prices.

KIEV, April 28 – Bowing to a key demand of the International Monetary Fund, the government will unveil reform legislation next week to increase Ukraine’s pension age, Deputy Prime Minister Serhiy Tyhypko said Thursday.

KIEV, April 27 – Ukraine has canceled export quotas on maize, announced Iryna Akimova first deputy head of the presidential administration and presidential envoy to the Cabinet of Ministers.

BAKU, April 28 – Ukraine wants to take an active part in the implementation of the Euro-Asian Oil Transport Corridor (EAOTC) project, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych said.

RIVNE, April 28 – In her first campaign trip across Ukraine since losing the presidential election, former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko vowed to cancel a controversial deal lowering Russian natural gas prices in exchange for extending its navy’s stay in Crimea.

NEW YORK, April 28 – The International Monetary Fund needs more information on the government’s budget and fiscal reforms before deciding on a new multibillion dollar lending program to Ukraine, a senior IMF official said.

KIEV, April 27 – The Ukrainian-Russian intergovernmental committee for economic cooperation will discuss further cooperation between the Ukrainian and Russian aviation complexes at its next meeting in Moscow on April 29, said Ukrainian Industry Minister Volodymyr Novytsky.

KIEV, April 27 – Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has offered her Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin the use of the Prydniprovski oil-trunk pipeline instead of the reversed route of the Odessa-Brody pipeline for pumping Russian oil.