KIEV, Dec. 21 – The National Bank of Ukraine has noted a considerable inflow of foreign currency into Ukraine in the first half of December.

"According to recent data, the trend seen in the previous two months when Ukrainian residents' currency receipts exceeded their own payments to foreign partners is continuing in December.

KIEV, Dec. 18 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny is now a public joint stock company.

This is stipulated in the company's new bylaws sealed in cabinet resolution No. 1354 dated December 2 and made public on December 18.

KIEV, Dec. 18 - Moody's Investors Service has placed the B2 long-term Corporate Family Rating (CFR) of DTEK Holdings Ltd (DTEK), the Ukrainian utility, on review for possible downgrade.

KIEV, Dec. 18 - Fitch Ratings has downgraded Ukraine-based pipe and railway wheel producer Interpipe Limited's (Interpipe) Long-term Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to 'RD' (Restricted Default) from 'CCC', Fitch said in a statement.

KIEV, Dec. 18 – Security Service Chief Valentyn Nalyvaichenko has refuted the information about the involvement of the SBU into an attempt by employers of a Ukrainian company to smuggle from Russia technical documents and a sample of a state-of-the-art Russian device capable of protecting aircraft from interception by man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS).

LVIV, Dec. 21 – The Ukrainian Academic Research Network (Uarnet) will join the European network of scientific information exchange, Uarnet Director Ihor Protsykevych said.

KIEV, Dec. 18 – The State Mortgage Establishment (SME) is mulling the possibility of providing a loan repayment holiday to borrowers whose financial situation has been affected by the economic crisis, SME Chairman Kyrylo Shevchenko said.

KIEV, Dec. 18 – The Antimonopoly Committee has officially recommended that Kiev city state administration revise and set economically justifiable tariffs for passenger transportation by electric transport of Kiev Metropoliten and Kyivpastrans.

KIEV, Dec. 21 - Ireland's Quinn Group plans to invest up to EUR 1 billion in real estate in Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Russia and India, Quinn Group director general, Volodymyr Shymkin, told Interfax-Ukraine on Wednesday.

KIEV, Dec. 21 ??“ Russia's Lighting Technologies Company has launched the first part of a new lamp plant in Slavutych in Kiev region, the company press service reported on Wednesday.