KIEV, Oct. 24 – The National Bank of Ukraine has given permission to commercial banks buy foreign currency from the population without copying passports, effective October 28.

KIEV, Oct. 21 – Metinvest Group intends to commission blast furnace No.3 at Yenakiyeve Steelworks (Donetsk region) in early November.

Production capacity of the blast furnace will make 1.2 million tons a year.

KIEV, Oct. 21 – The facilities of Ukraine's National Space Facilities Control and Test Center based in Yevpatoria, Crimea, will be deployed for the Russian Fobos-Grunt program and Spectrum-X-Gamma program.

BRUSSELS, Oct. 21 - The European Parliament has postponed a vote on a resolution on Ukraine until a plenary meeting in Brussels on November 10-11.

KIEV, Oct. 22 - Financial irregularities worth some UAH 8 billion have been discovered in Rodovid Bank after the bank transferred to state control, while financial irregularities worth UAH 2 billion were found in Bank Kiev and Ukrgasbank, the head of the chief audit department, Petro Andreyev, said at a press conference on Thursday.

KIEV, Oct. 22 – Claims by some politicians that the National Bank of Ukraine and government made an unsecured monetary emission are completely untrue, said Valeriy Lytvytsky, the head of the group of advisors to the NBU governor.

KIEV, Oct. 22 - RosUkrEnergo, a Swiss-based natural gas trader co-owned by Ukrainian billionaire Dmytro Firtash and Gazprom, came a step closer to claiming its gas that had been confiscated by Ukraine in 2009.

VINNYTSIA region, Oct. 23 - Ukrainian vodka company Nemiroff, one of the largest liquor producers in the CIS, might purchase a distillery in Russia in addition to building one.

KIEV, Oct. 23 – SCM Group, the large Ukrainian holding, announced it has completed a deal to buy 45.38% of Druzhkivka mine group and 50% of Vohneupornerud, increasing its shares in the clay-mining companies to 90.58% and 100%, respectively.

KIEV, Oct. 23 - Ukrainian metal traders increased sales by 45.1% year-on-year to 2.181 million tons in the first nine months of 2007, Ukrainian Metal Traders Association president Andriy Fedoseyev told Interfax.