Text of report by Interfax-Ukraine news agency Ohrid (Macedonia), 8 October: Ukrainian Defence Minister Yuriy Yekhanurov believes that Ukrainian politicians should formulate a common position on NATO.

Text of report by Interfax-Ukraine news agency Kiev, 4 October: Six miners have been killed in a methane explosion at the Duvanna mine of the Krasnodonvuhillya company in the town of Sukhodilsk in Luhansk Region, the head of the Emergencies Ministry's press service, Ihor Krol, has said.

Text of report by Interfax-Ukraine news agency Kiev, 26 September: The Ukrainian cabinet plans to sign a long- term agreement on gas supplies with Russia by the end of October, Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko has said.

Excerpt from report by corporate-owned Russian news agency Interfax Astana, 24 September: The state company for managing Kazakhstan's main gas pipelines KazTransGaz is considering the issue of selling its assets in Georgia, that is the gas distribution company KazTransGaz-Tbilisi Ltd.

Excerpt from report by Interfax-Ukraine news agency Minsk, 1 September: The Belarusian government finds it advisable to invite the Russian company Transneft to participate in the privatization of its state oil transporting companies, the Druzhba Navapolatsk oil transport national unitary company and the Homeltransnafta Druzhba national unitary company, whose shares are to be sold in 2009, a source from the government has told the Interfax-West news agency.