KIEV, Nov. 22 – The Energy and Coal Industry Ministry is planning to announce the results of a tender for the concession of the integrated property complexes of state enterprises Rovenkiantracit and Sverdlovantracit (both based in Luhansk region) on November 25, a source in the ministry told Interfax-Ukraine.

MOSCOW, Nov. 22 – Small rocket engines, such as the R95 used in air-to-land guided missiles, are to be produced by a Russian-Ukrainian joint venture with production facilities in Dubna (Moscow region, Russia) starting in 2012.

KIEV, Nov. 22 – The largest private energy holding in the country – DTEK – is pleased to have some competition in a tender to buy 25% stake in public joint-stock company Kyivenergo and is planning to win a fair, competitive fight, DTEK Director General Maksym Tymchenko said.

KIEV, Nov. 22 – The Interior Ministry announced plans to introduce electronic passports with biometric data for Ukrainians traveling abroad in the second half of 2011.

KIEV, Nov. 19 – The introduction of the Tax Code could make loans in Ukraine more expensive and reduce small- and medium-size businesses in the country, according to Stanyslav Arzhevitin, the first deputy head of the parliamentary committee on finance and banking.

LISBON, Nov. 19 – The United States and the European Union have discussed energy issues with respect to Ukraine and confirmed their support for the Ukrainian leadership on four priorities.

ZAPORIZHIA, Nov. 22 – Marine archeologists of the Khortytsia National Reserve in Zaporizhia have raised an ancient Cossack warship, a Cossack oak vessel, which had been lying beneath the waters of the reserve for some three centuries.

SIMFEROPOL, Nov. 19 – The Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea has charged the government of Crimea with considering and determining the best options of the use of Lake Donuzlav (Western Crimea) and the nearby territory, as well as presenting relevant proposals at the Crimean parliament.

KIEV, Nov. 20 – Canada's Kulczyk Oil Ventures has entered into an agreement on the purchase of a 70% indirect equity interest in KUB-Gas Ltd. (Luhansk) from U.S. Gastek LLC, a private Californian company that wholly owns KUB-Gas.

KIEV, Nov. 20 – The government is damaging domestic medical equipment producers while helping foreign ones, presidential candidate Sergiy Tigipko said, commenting on a decision of the cabinet to give state guarantees for UAH 15 billion credits to purchase foreign medical equipment.