Alleged spy Stanislav Yezhov went on trial on August 22

The Party of Regions faction in Parliament fails to take the final decision on who may become the new prime-minister at its Tuesday meeting, the PR’s MP and representative of the President in Parliament Yuriy Miroshnychenko says

Viktor Yanukovych has changed the procedure of the Cabinet of Ministers and instructed First Vice Premier Serhiy Arbuzov to act as premier, says the decree posted on the President’s official website

Arseniy Yatseniuk, the leader of Batkivshchyna, is ready to become premier provided that the Parliament returns the 2004 Constitution and the Cabinet of Ministers is formed by the opposition, he says in an interview for Deutsche Welle

Based on the Law on the Cabinet of Ministers, First Vice Premier Serhiy Arbuzov will be Acting Premier, Azarov's press-secretary Vitaliy Lukianenko says

Prime Minister Mykola Azarov resigns, the official website of the Government reports

As the confrontation between the Yanukovych Administration and the West intensifies, top foreign statesmen have addressed requests to and made demands of the President and Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, but the Ukrainian leaders have simply ignored them

Prime Minister Mykola Azarov philosophizes at the 6th CIS Intelligentsia Forum

Economic growth will not take place without true deregulation and improved tax conditions for small and medium businesses.

The government has shifted the blame for delayed VAT compensation to business owners

Ukraine will have to clean the Augean Stables of the tycoon-controlled economy regardless of how the global financial crisis develops

The new governor will make it easier to devaluate the hryvnia, acquire banks and cover the deficit