Kiev  - Thirteen Ukrainians died and six suffered serious injuries in a pair of nearly identical road accidents involving minibuses and highway maintenance lorries, the Interfax news agency reporte

Kiev  - The Ukrainian government is in discussions with a low-cost German air carrier on entrance into the former Soviet republic's passenger market, the Interfax news agency reported Monday.

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Kiev  - World Trade Organization regulations on reduced tariffs and increased competition went into effect in Ukraine on Friday, extending a ray of hope to hapless Ukrainian consumers up against ro

Kiev  - The leaders of Ukraine's razor-thin ruling coalition on Tuesday traded barbs and open threats over galloping inflation in the former Soviet republic.

Kiev- Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukrainian Prime Minister and populist politician, accused a leading US energy firm Monday of secretly planning to sell sensitive Black Sea gas drilling rights to Russian corporate giant Gazprom.

Executives from the Houston-headquartered Vanco Energy International, a firm that signed an exclusive deep water drilling rights agreement with the Ukrainian government in April, intend to abandon their Ukrainian project and to transfer rights to Gazprom, Tymoshenko charged, according to an Interfax news agency report.