KIEV, Nov. 17 – Ukrtransnafta is in talks with Azerbaijan's SOCAR on a time credit for a trial batch of crude oil, which is to be bought and supplied to the Kralupy oil refinery in the Czech Republic, according to Roman Sidorak, the head of Ukrtransnafta's tariff policy department.

KIEV, Nov. 18 - The National Bank of Ukraine has revised the procedure for forming obligatory reserves, increasing from 6% to 7.5% the reservation norm for short-term funds and deposits of legal entities and individuals in foreign currency, according to NBU letter to the banks No. 19-015/9392-13802.

KIEV, Nov. 18 – The possibility gaining the Ukrainian aircraft industry's a bigger share of the world market should not be thwarted by the absence of a system to encourage aircraft exports from Ukraine, Antonov Enterprise President and Chief Designer Dmytro Kiva said.

KIROVOHRAD, Nov. 18 – Eastern ore-dressing combine (VostGOK) is planning in 2012 to increase uranium concentrate production by 2.3-3.4%, to 900 tons compared to the expected production volume in 2011 (870-880 tons), VostGOK deputy director general for economics and production development Volodymyr Bohdanets said at a press conference.

KIEV, Nov. 18 – The Group of States Against Corruption (GRECO) has released a report as a result of third round of the evaluation of Ukraine in the area of the criminalization of corruption and transparency in financing political parties and election campaigns, the Justice Ministry's press service reported.

KIEV, Nov. 18 – IKEA of Sweden does not plan to review its plans to enter the Ukrainian market because of the economic crisis, Oksana Belaichik, IKEA spokesperson for Russia and the CIS, told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Nov. 19 – Donetsk-based Altcom Industrial Group and France's Bouygues Comapny are holding preliminary negotiations on the joint construction of roads in Ukraine.

According to a posting on the Web site of Altcom Group, the French company is ready to invest in the building of Ukrainian roads if the state provides traffic guarantees.

KIEV, Nov. 19 – Ukraine exported around 10 million tons of grain and two million tons of rapeseed from the beginning of the marketing year (July 2008 through June 2009) through Nov. 19, Agriculture Minister Yuriy Melnyk said.

ZAPORIZHIA, Nov. 20 - Zaporizhia regional administration head Oleksandr Starukh has confirmed earlier reports suggesting that several units at the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant could be stopped because of a significant decline in power consumption by regional industrial enterprises.

KIEV, Nov. 19 - Bank of Cyprus Public Company Ltd (Bank of Cyprus) has announced that it has signed a sale and purchase agreement to acquire a 95% stake in Ukrainian bank AvtoZAZBank for about EUR52 million.