UPI Almanac for Friday, Dec. 26, 2008.

KIEV, Ukraine, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko on Thursday officially dissolved the country's parliament in Kiev and set Dec. 7 for a special election.

KIEV, Ukraine, Sept. 16 (UPI) -- Ukraine's ruling pro-Western government coalition has collapsed, making way for possible early elections, the parliamentary speaker said Tuesday.

KIEV, Ukraine, July 11 (UPI) -- A push by some lawmakers in Ukraine to give the government of Premier Yulia Tymoshenko a no-confidence vote has failed to muster the support needed to pass.

WASHINGTON, March 31 (UPI) -- President Bush's two-day visit to Kiev on the eve of NATO's April 2-4 summit in Bucharest, Romania, is his first visit to Ukraine and therefore long overdue. His predecessor, Bill Clinton, visited Ukraine on three occasions. Bush's visit to Ukraine ahead of the NATO summit is seen as a strong show of U.S. support for NATO enlargement to Ukraine and Georgia.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- The world is watching as newly named Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko steps up to the plate.

MOSCOW, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- When Turkmenistan announced last week it would raise the gas price for Gazprom by 30 percent, the Russian energy giant actually sighed with relief.

KIEV, Ukraine, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- The Ukrainian government has resigned, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych said Friday at a meeting of the governing Verkhovna Rada in Kiev.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- By now it has a familiar ring to it -- Moscow and Kiev are once again at loggerheads over imported natural gas prices. The issue has made political allies out of Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and President Viktor Yushchenko, normally at odds with each other.