KIEV, Nov. 17 – Fears of a possible election boycott next year eased on Thursday after Parliament overwhelmingly voted to approve an election bill incorporating most of the amendments submitted by opposition groups.

KIEV, Nov. 17 – Ukraine's GDP from January to October 2010 rose by 4.6% year-over-year, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said opening a Wednesday cabinet meeting in Kiev.

KIEV, Nov. 17 - Ukraine and Russia resumed talks over a joint venture that may incorporate some Russian natural gas deposits and Ukrainian natural gas pipelines, the Energy and Fuel Ministry reported Wednesday.

KIEV, Nov. 17 – President Viktor Yanukovych, addressing the country’s top security body, said Wednesday the government should start “radical economic reforms” in 2011, but also make sure there are no “revolutions” in Ukraine.

BRUSSELS, Nov. 17 – The Ukrainian government plans to re-write its 2010 draft budget as it seeks to persuade the International Monetary Fund to resume lending to the country, Foreign Minister Petro Poroshenko said Tuesday.

KIEV, Nov. 17 – The economic crisis has already changed Ukrainian politics, according to President Viktor Yushchenko.

"The crisis has changed our country's political priorities. Economic leadership, unity, and professionalism have become paramount," reads an article by the president published in the Financial Times on Monday, the presidential press service reported.

KIEV, Nov. 17 - A sharp fall in prices and a decrease in the demand for chemicals on the foreign and Ukrainian markets in October has triggered a 20-50% decrease in chemical production, according to Ukrainian Industry Minister Volodymyr Novytsky.

"Ammonium prices on the foreign market fell by three times compared to the third quarter of this year.

KIEV, Nov. 17 – Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was Monday considering ways of surviving a looming no-confidence vote in Parliament that may include replacing key ministers in her government, people familiar with the situation said.

KIEV, Nov. 17 - Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev said Thursday his country was interested in moving Caspian Sea crude to markets in Europe by using Ukraine??™s Odessa-Brody oil pipeline.

KIEV, Nov. 17 ??“ Ukraine and Russia are in a deadlock over natural gas supplies and prices in 2006 that may affect relations between the two, according to separate accounts by Russian and Ukrainian negotiators.