KIEV, Dec. 26 – The government will extend subsidies on the price of electricity for ferroalloy plants into 2014, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov promised.

LONDON/KIEV, Dec. 26 - Standard & Poor's has changed the outlook on its "B-" long-term foreign- and local currency ratings assigned to Ukraine to stable from negative.

KIEV, Dec. 26 - Ukraine and ExxonMobil delayed by another month the signing of the production sharing agreement on a major Black Sea natural gas field, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Eduard Stavytskiy said.

KIEV, Dec. 25 – Ukraine expects to continue cooperation with the International Monetary Fund and positive negotiations with the World Trade Organization, President Viktor Yanukovych said.

KIEV, Dec. 25 – The administration of ArcelorMittal Kryviy Rih steel mill in Dnipropetrovsk region, has filed a claim in court to demand that the information contained in an open letter to the mill's trade union organization be recognized as misleading and damaging to the company's business reputation and to ask the defendant to issue a retraction.

KIEV, Dec. 26 – Energy and Coal Industry Minister Eduard Stavytsky plans to work with Deputy Prime Minister Yuriy Boyko (earlier energy and coal industry minister) as one team and he plans to bring the project on the construction of an LNG-terminal to the logical end.

KIEV, Dec. 26 – The largest Ukrainian fuel traders set prices of fuel on the retail market too high via the increased markups, the Antimonopoly Committee said.

KIEV, Dec. 26 - Ukraine's national oil and gas stock company Naftogaz Ukrayiny has signed an agreement with China Development Bank Corporation for $3.656 billion under state guarantee for projects involving the replacement of gas with coal, Deputy Prime Minister Yuriy Boyko's press service announced Tuesday evening.

KIEV, Dec. 23 – Prime Minister Mykola Azarov believes that Ukraine can raise export of software products to $8 billion by 2015.

"We are capable of raising level of exports of software products by 2015 to some $8 billion," he said at a meeting with associations dedicated to the IT industry development in Kiev on Friday.

KIEV, Dec. 23 - The installed capacity of renewable energy facilities in Ukraine in 2012 will at least double, according to Vitaliy Daviy, the president of the Association of Alternative Fuel and Energy Market Participants of Ukraine (APEU).