KIEV, Aug. 30 – A Kiev court of appeals on Monday upheld a previous ruling stripping two independent television stations of frequencies, a move that may suspend their expansion in the country’s regions and potentially destroy the channels. | More

BERLIN, Aug. 30 - Chancellor Angela Merkel used a visit to Berlin by President Viktor Yanukovych on Monday to raise concerns about press freedoms in Ukraine, Deutshce Welle reported. | More

KIEV, Aug. 30 – Parliament, at an emergency session on Monday, voted to approve amendments to legislation governing the upcoming local elections by letting a greater number of parties nominate candidates. | More

KIEV, Aug. 29 – The rift between President Viktor Yanukovych and Medjlis, the ruling body of Crimean Tatars, the third-largest ethnic group in Crimea, widened on Sunday, threatening to undermine efforts to improve local policies. | More

KIEV, Aug. 28 – A Ukrainian journalist was stabbed twice with a knife and hospitalized in Zhytomyr on Friday while pursuing a story on corruption among local lawmakers. | More

KIEV, Aug. 27 - Ukraine insists on the preservation of the border between Ukraine and Russia in the Kerch Strait that existed in Soviet times, but is ready to reach a compromise on economic issues, according to Oleh Voloshyn, the head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry's information policy department. | More

KIEV, Aug. 26 – A Ukrainian journalist missing for the past two weeks is probably dead, and police officers may have been involved in the matter, Interior Minister Anatoliy Mohyliov said Thursday. | More

KIEV, Aug. 26 – Construction of a liquefied natural gas terminal on the Black Sea is Ukraine’s top priority for the next four years, President Viktor Yanukovych’s press service reported Thursday. | More

KIEV, Aug. 26 - Kiev's and Moscow's positions on resolving the problem of the demarcation of the Azov-Kerch water area differ, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin said.

"The parties' positions differ from each other, and the key problem is the determination of the Kerch Strait's status and its demarcation," Karasin told journalists in Kiev. | More