KIEV, Jan. 24 – GlobalMoney company (Kiev) is operating as normal, despite a search conducted by the tax agencies, the company reported.

DNIPROPETROVSK, Jan. 26 – The issue of providing EUR 152 million to Dnipropetrovsk city council for subway construction is pending approval by the Board of Directors of the European Investment Bank in April, and in May the financing will go to the borrower, EIB representative Boris Stein von Kamiensk said at a meeting in the city council devoted to the completion of the construction of three subway stations in the city.

KIEV, Jan. 24 - The Australian company Lugansk Gold plans to put some $50 million into the mining and refining of gold sulfide ores at the Bobrikovo deposit in Ukraine's Luhansk region, and has already spent roughly $2 million, the Perth-based company's Web site says, citing head of the Antratsyt regional administration Hennadiy Holovnenko.

KIEV, Jan. 24 – Gas stockpiles at the underground gas storage facilities of Ukrtransgaz currently stand at 14.8 billion cubic meters (bcm), which allows the orders of Ukrainian consumers to be met in full, the Ukrtransgaz, a subsidiary of Naftogaz Ukrayiny, said on Tuesday.

KHARKIV, Jan. 25 - About a hundred Chernobyl cleanup workers went on a protest at Freedom Square in central Kharkiv on Wednesday demanding that the provisions of the Ukrainian law on the status and social protection of citizens affected by the Chernobyl disaster be observed.

KIEV, Jan. 26 – All genetically modified organisms (GMO) in Ukraine are illegal, as no GMO has yet been registered, according to the director of Institute for Ecohygiene and Toxicology, Mykola Prodanchuk.

KIEV, Jan. 25 – The government permitted the import to Ukraine of 12 solar and one wind power station worth about EUR 705 million without the payment of customs duties and VAT, according to cabinet resolution No. 36 of January 24.

KIEV, Jan. 26 – Ukraine needs credits and investment from abroad to boost its GDP growth higher than 4.5% in 2011, Expert-Rating analysis agency forecast.

KIEV, Jan. 25 - Ukraine’s current account deficit may worsen to $3.8 billion or 2.5% of GDP in 2011 compared with $2.5 billion or 1.9% of GDP in 2010, a senior official at the National Bank of Ukraine said.

KIEV, Jan. 26 – Ukraine will support investment in strategic areas, such as development of offshore oil and gas fields, aircraft building, metallurgy, agricultural engineering and high-tech development, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said.