KIEV, Dec. 22 - Parliament on Thursday approved the 2012 budget based on a relatively high price of imported Russian gas after the government failed to secure a discount from Moscow that would have improved state finances.

SEOUL, Dec. 20 – Hyundai Corporation is studying the Ukrainian car market aimed at creating car production facilities in Ukraine, according to Vice Premier an Infrastructure Minister of Ukraine Borys Kolesnikov.

KIEV, Dec. 20 - Zaporizhtransformator, a large manufacturer of transformer equipment, part of Energy Standard Group, has entered the United States market, completing the fulfillment of two contracts for supply of transformers to the country, the company's press service has said.

KIEV, Dec. 20 – DTEK, Ukraine's largest private vertically integrated energy holding, within a pilot project with Niko Trading House will buy ten Mitsubishi iMiEV electric cars, the head of the external communications department at DTEK, Yevhen Zahorulko, said at a press conference in Kyiv on Tuesday.

KIEV, Dec. 20 – Revenues to Ukraine's national budget from the privatization and state-owned property management in 2011-2014 will come to up to UAH 70 billion.

KIEV, Dec. 21 - Ukraine will hold tenders to sign oil and gas production sharing agreements for the Yuzovsky field and the Olessky field, Interfax reported.

KIEV, Dec. 20 – The consolidated net profit of Ukraine's banks in November amounted to UAH 1.204 billion, whereas the banks' overall net losses in October amounted to UAH 642.9 million, the National Bank of Ukraine said in a posting on its Web site.

KIEV, Dec. 21 – The State Property Fund plans to announce on Wednesday a tender to choose the appraiser of a state stake in national telecommunications operator OJSC Ukrtelecom, SPF Head Oleksandr Riabchenko said in Kiev on Tuesday.

KIEV, Dec. 21 - The Chernobyl zone and the zone of alienation will be open for tourists from January 2011.

"There is a huge demand, people want to go there, they want to hear, see and find out, which is why we decided to work out such a mechanism that would allow for organized systemic visits to the zone," Oksana Nor, General Director at Chernobyl Interinform, told a press conference in Kiev on Tuesday.

KIEV, Dec. 21 – The State Property Fund has returned the Frunze-Flora Company a UAH 400 million bid deposit paid by the bidder to take part in the privatization of Odessa Port-Side Chemical Plant in autumn 2009, according to SPF Chairman Oleksandr Riabchenko.