Korban transferred to house arrest:
A Ukrainian court has ordered house arrest for UKROP party leader Hennadiy Korban until December 31.
Kyiv's Pechera district court issued the ruling on November 6.
Korban's lawyer, Oksana Tomchuk, said the court's decision would be "most likely" appealed.
Korban, 45, was initially detained on October 31 on suspicion of involvement in organized crime, embezzlement, and kidnapping, and released 72 hours later as prosecutors failed to issue an arrest warrant against him.
Korban was detained again on November 3 after investigators obtained some more "evidence" of his alleged "involvement into a number of crimes."
UKROP activists say Korban, a former deputy governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, is being harassed for political reasons.
Korban's party, the Ukrainian Union of Patriots (UKROP), was officially registered in September 2014. (UNIAN, Interfax)
Washington offers Kyiv another $1 billion linked to reforms:
The White House has offered to provide a third $1 billion loan guarantee to Ukraine that would be contingent on the country's continued progress toward eliminating corruption and reforming taxes.
Vice President Joe Biden, in a telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on November 5, said the United States was ready to help Ukraine, but Kyiv must first enact economic reforms
The U.S. financing and a $1.7 billion loan disbursement from the International Monetary Fund have been held up by squabbling between the Ukrainian parliament and Finance Ministry over proposed tax cuts.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk warned on November 4 that the near-deadlock over the level of planned tax cuts threatened to derail the government's 2016 budget and Western financing that is linked to it.
Lawmakers want steep cuts that the Finance Ministry says are not sustainable.
"We now have many allies in the West and these allies will stand with us so long as we show political will, responsibility and the unchanging nature of our goals and values as we carry out reform," he said. "We must all speak in one language." (w/ Reuters)