Kiev  - Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, theoretical political allies, are in open conflict over the development of Azov Sea natural gas fields by a US com

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.

Kiev- A Russo-Ukrainian row was averted Friday with US marines taking part in a World War II memorial march, Channel 5 television reported.

Russian naval officials in the Ukrainian port of Sevastopol, the home base for Russia's Black Sea fleet, had intended to hold a parade of warships in the bay on Friday.

But the Sevastpol city government banned the event.

The naval parade had been intended by the Kremlin to mark the 63rd anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe (VE Day), and simultaneously, the 225th anniversary of the founding of the Russian Black Sea fleet.

Kiev - Ukrainian border police on Thursday seized a Turkish national and his lorry loaded with cocaine worth as much as 14.2 million dollars, the Interfax news agency reported.