KIEV, Jan. 18 - Artem Polyakov, who previously headed the sugar division of the Russian group of companies RusAgro, has been appointed the new chief executive of the ArcelorMittal Kryviy Rih steel mill, ArcelorMittal announced.

KIEV, Jan. 18 - Ukraine is scheduled to pay the International Monetary Fund 2.433 billion SDR ($3.719 billion at the current exchange rate) this year, including 199 million SDR worth of interest, IMF materials say.

KIEV, Jan. 19 – Agrarian Policy and Food Minister Mykola Prysiazhniuk said that Russia does not have serious claims against the quality of Ukrainian cheese supplied to the country.

KIEV, Jan. 19 - IHS CERA consulting company (Cambridge Energy Research Associates) has recommended Ukraine to retain a majority stake in ownership during the creation of a gas transport consortium so to strengthen a role of the Ukrainian gas transport system.

KIEV, Jan. 19 - Ukraine’s biggest producer of steel pipes, Interpipe, is testing its recently completed Dniprostal, the country’s first state-of-the-art steel mill that uses electric power, not natural gas, for making steel.

KIEV, Jan. 17 - Fitch Ratings has affirmed NJSC Naftogaz Ukrayiny's (Naftogaz) Long-term foreign and local currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) at 'CCC', respectively. Naftogaz's $1.595 billion government-guaranteed notes are affirmed at 'B' with a Recovery Rating of 'RR4'.

KIEV, Jan. 18 – About one million entrepreneurs have chosen the single tax system for 2011, the State Tax Service reported.

"We have received about one million applications from private businessmen on transferring to the system of simplified taxation and reports for 2011," reads a report by the service.

MOSCOW, Jan. 18 - The Finance Ministries of Russia and Ukraine in the next two months will prepare an agreement to fulfill the agreement signed by Russia and Ukraine in April 2010 on the extension of the presence of the Black Sea Fleet in Ukraine, Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said after meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart Fedir Yaroshenko.

KIEV, Jan. 19 – The Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Fund, the supervisory council of which is headed by Kateryna Yushchenko, the wife of the Ukrainian president, and the Children's Hospital of the Future Charitable Fund have reminded the buyers of the Industrial Union of Donbas Corporation (Donetsk) about the additional obligations of the corporation.

KIEV, Jan. 18 – The Industrial Union of Donbass (Donetsk) is in talks with 40 banks on restructuring its debts, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Director for Ukraine Andre Kuusvek reported.