KIEV, May 27 – The government should remove counterfeit fuel from the market before increasing the excise duties on fuel, experts and members of the public said at a press conference entitled "Increasing Excise Duties on Fuel: Why Does the Consumer Have to Pay More for 'Bootleg Gasoline'?" at Interfax-Ukraine.

KREMENCHUK, May 28 – Some $3 billion could be invested in building a Bilanivsky Mining quarry (Poltava region), Bilanivsky Mining Director General Robert Garrick told reporters.

KIEV, May 28 – Ukraine and Indonesia will create a working group on trade and investment at the top executive agency to settle disputes as a part of preparations for a meeting of the bilateral intergovernmental commission scheduled for December in Kiev.

KIEV, May 28 – Ukraine's state-owned EnergoAtom has lost UAH114 million due to flawed nuclear fuel assemblies made by Westinghouse, the State Finance Inspectorate of Ukraine reported on Monday.

KIEV, May 28 – The positive trends in Ukraine's balance of payments in March were reinforced in April, which brought the country close to a point of absolute balance over the four months ending April 2012, said Valeriy Lytvytsky, the head of the group of advisors to the National Bank of Ukraine governor.

KIEV, May 28 - Ukraine needs to hike gas prices for domestic consumers and let its currency trade more flexibly if it wants to get funds flowing again under its suspended International Monetary Fund bailout, an IMF official was quoted as saying.

KIEV, May 26 – The RusAl company (Russia) will challenge in the Higher Economic Court of Ukraine a verdict of Kiev Economic Court of Appeals, which upheld a ruling of the court of lower instance on the cancellation of an agreement on the sale and purchase of a 68.015 stake in opened joint-stock company Zaporizhia Aluminum Smelter (ZAlK) and the return of the stake to the state.

KIEV, May 28 - Zagope-Construcoes e Engenharia SA (Porto Salvo, Portugal), part of Brazil's Groupe Andare Gutierrez, has won a tender to draw up a EUR757,000 feasibility study for the extension of the city orbital road in Kiev.

KIEV, May 28 – Ukraine and the United States are working out a schedule of work at a joint facility being built at the Pavlohrad Chemical Plant in Dnipropetrovsk region as part of the program to dispose of solid rocket fuel from SS-24 intercontinental ballistic missiles.

KIEV, May 26 – HeidelbergCement Ukraine, part of the HeidelbergCement Group, is revising the forecast for cement output at its plants in 2009 downwards, said Amvrosiyivka Plant Director Oleksandr Bizhko.