KIEV, Feb. 14 - Bogdan Corporation, one of the leading operators on the automotive market and vehicle manufacturers, says it may start suspending operations and dismissing workers at its companies in connection with the continuing numerous checks by controlling and fiscal authorities and pressure on the business.

KIEV, Feb. 14 – Foreign direct investments (FDI) in Ukraine in 2013 amounted to $2.86 billion against $4.13 billion in 2012, the State Statistics Service reported on Friday.

KIEV, Feb. 14 - The managements of Sberbank of Russia in Ukraine and Prominvestbank, which is incorporated in Russia's Vnesheconombank, both located in Kiev, have reaffirmed their lending institutions' intention to continue work in Ukraine's banking sector.

KIEV, Feb. 17 – The state debt management program for 2014 approved by the Ukrainian Finance Ministry on February 14, 2014 foresees foreign borrowing of UAH 52.18 billion, taking into account borrowing for the special fund, while earlier the government had said that it plans to raise $12 billion (UAH 103.6 billion under the current exchange rate) from Russia.

KIEV, Feb. 14 – The National Commission for Energy Regulation has issued a license for electricity production to Frunze Solar LLC (Kharkiv), which operates a photovoltaic plant installed on the roof of one of the buildings of PJSC Frunze Plant.

KIEV, Feb. 14 – New excise stamps with three-level counterfeit-proof protection will be introduced for locally produced and imported alcohol and tobacco in Ukraine starting on April 1.

KIEV, Feb. 14 – EnergoAtom has placed bonds worth UAH 1.7 billion and sent UAH 1.4 billion to the national budget in the form of advance tax payments, First Vice President Oleksandr Shavlakov said in Kiev on Thursday.

KIEV, Feb. 15 - Credit Suisse First Boston and Deutsche Bank have withdrawn their demand that Ukrtelecom to pay back early the remaining $222.2 million it owes on a $500 million credit raised in 2005 that they made due to a change in the management of the company, a source in financial circles told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Feb. 16 – Westinghouse is to supply a second commercial nuclear fuel consignment to Yuzhnoukrainsk nuclear power plant by July, the press service of National Nuclear Generating Company EnergoAtom said.

KIEV, Feb. 16 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny handed over 3.471 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas to Swiss-based gas trader RosUkrEnergo in January 2011 in line with a ruling by the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, a government source told Interfax-Ukraine.