KIEV, Sept. 23 – The disconnection of the Kalush pumped-storage power plant, the only supplier of heat for Ivano-Frankivsk region industrial consumers Karpatnaftokhim Ltd. and Lukor, has caused these companies to have to suspend operations.

KIEV, Sept. 23 – The situation on the Ukrainian stock market now has no economic grounds and is based only on speculation, according to Economy Minister Bohdan Danylyshyn.

"The Ukrainian stock market today is overrun with institutions that do not always correlate with each other and are characterized by efforts to receive super-profits, using legal loopholes," said Danylyshyn.

KIEV, Sept. 23 – The National Bank of Ukraine is drawing up rules aimed at the the regulation of risk management work at Ukrainian banks, according to the deputy NBU head, Volodymyr Krotiuk.

KIEV, Sept. 23 – Inflation in Ukraine will not exceed 20% in 2008 and 17% in 2009, according to Ukrgazbank economist Oleksandr Okhrymenko.

"Real inflation in 2009 will be around 15-17%, this year it will be closer to 20%, but it won't exceed 20%," he said.

Okhrymenko said inflation is positive for business development.

KIEV, Sept. 23 - In two weeks, the Russian Economy Ministry and its Ukrainian counterpart will hold talks on changing regulations that protect the Russian market from what the Russians see as the negative consequences of Ukraine's joining the World Trade Organization, Russian Economy Ministry Trade Department Director Maksim Medvedko said.

KIEV, Sept. 20 – U.S. company Star Energy and its subsidiary, Anglo-Ukra Energy (Kiev), have announced the opening of their central office in the Leonardo business center in Kiev.

KIEV, Sept. 20 – Kiev-based Oschadbank, a wholly state owned Ukrainian retail bank, plans to offer a debut eurobond issue of $100 million to $150 million in the first quarter of 2008, CEO Anatoliy Hulei told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Sept. 21 – Krasnodonvuhillia has commissioned this month a new coalface at the Molodohvardiyska mine with about 1 million tons of coking coal, the company announced.

KYIV, August 22 – The issue of understated tax payments for the gambling business in 2022 remains open, companies must pay billions of hryvnias to the budget, Danylo Hetmantsev, head of the parliamentary committee on finance, tax and customs policy, has said.

KYIV, Aug 21 – Housing commissioning in Ukraine in January-June 2017 increased by 56.2% compared to the same period in 2016, to 5.139 million square meters, according to the State Statistics Service.