The Ukrainian government should not strive to banish the Vanco company from the oil and gas fields in the Black Sea because the Ukrainian state company Naftohaz Ukrayiny has neither funds nor experience to develop those fields, Anatoliy Baronin of the Da Vinci AG think-tank has written.

Ukrainian news agencies continue reporting incidents at polling stations during the early election to parliament on 30 September.

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The congress of the Yuliya Tymoshenko Bloc has approved a list of candidates ahead of the early parliamentary election scheduled for 30 September, the Ukrayinska Pravda website reported on 5 August.

Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has reinstated Svyatoslav Piskun as prosecutor-general of Ukraine, the Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported at 1020 gmt on 26 April.