KIEV, Jan. 27 -- Ukrainian Energy Minister Eduard Stavytsky said he and his colleagues had dissuaded protesters from trying to seize control of his ministry on Saturday and claimed that the country's electricity grid was running "as normal."

KIEV, Jan. 27 – Ternopil and Ivano-Frankivsk regional councils have decided to ban the activity and symbols of the Communist Party of Ukraine and the Party of Regions in their regions.

KIEV, Jan. 27 -- EU Heads of Missions in Kiev call on Ukraine's government to deliver on its promises and announcements made in the context of the negotiations with the opposition and the opposition to maintain the peaceful character of demonstrations, the Delegation of the European Union to Ukraine said in a statement on its Facebook page in the early hours of Monday.

KIEV, Jan. 27 - Ukraine on Monday announced it would draw on another $2 billion of credit - adding to $3 billion already received for purchase of a bond - from a $15 billion bailout package offered by Moscow after the former Soviet republic walked away from the deal with the EU, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Jan. 27 – President Viktor Yanukovych held fresh talks with opposition leaders on Monday to prepare for a crunch session of Parliament at which the president and his allies will be under pressure to make major concessions amid mass unrest.

KIEV, Jan. 27 – Russia’s state-controlled energy giant Gazprom slapped Ukraine with a $7 billion penalty for natural gas it had never imported in 2012 claiming the country had violated its ‘take-or-pay’ obligation by reducing imports.

KIEV. Jan. 27 - Ukraine will next week pay for Russian natural gas supplied in January, and will partially rely on borrowed funds, acting Finance Minister Ihor Umanskiy said Wednesday.

KIEV, Jan. 27 – Parliamentary Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn said Wednesday he was skeptical that Serhiy Tyhypko would ever become prime minister, no matter who wins the presidential election next month.

KIEV, Jan. 27 – There is a “huge potential” for the dismissal of Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko at an emergency session of Parliament on Thursday, Parliamentary Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn said Wednesday.

KIEV, Jan. 25 - Ukrainian political scientists differ on the prospects for Ukraine's foreign policy in the event of Regions leader Viktor Yanukovych winning the second round of the presidential elections in Ukraine.