MOSCOW, Feb. 27 ??“ Russian gas monopoly Gazprom may purchase from its subsidiary Gazprombank a 50% stake in RosUkrEnergo, a Swiss-based gas trader it controls, for 2.3 mln euros, Interfax reported Monday.

KIEV, Feb. 27 ??“ Ukraine??™s Consumer Confidence Index, or CCI, grew in October through December 2005 after steeply declining in September, the International Center of Policy Studies said, citing a survey made in December 2005.

KIEV, Feb. 27 ??“ Russia will probably lift its ban on imports of meat and dairy products from Ukraine after general election due March 26, Agriculture Minister Oleksandr Baranivskiy said Monday.

KIEV, Feb. 27 - Turkmen President Separmurat Niyazov will probably visit Ukraine in April or May for important natural gas talks with his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yushchenko, a source in the Ukrainian government said Monday.

KIEV, Feb. 24 ??“ Japan's government has granted $673,000 to Ukraine from the Strategy and Human Resources Development Fund to help design the World Bank's Project for Development of Ukraine's Treasury System??“2.

BRUSSELS, Feb. 25 - A senior European Union official predicted Friday the EU will expand rapidly in the next decade, with Turkey and possibly Ukraine joining the bloc around 2015, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Feb. 24 ??“ Crude oil prices rose 10.3% at an auction in Kiev Thursday in reaction to the government??™s move to slap a tax on oil imports and in anticipation of a greater demand next month.

KIEV, Feb. 24 - A Kiev court ruled to freeze assets of the Nikopol Ferroalloy Plant (NFP), one of the world's largest ferromanganese producers, in what is likely to be the next case of a reversed privatization.

KIEV, Feb. 24 ??“ The National Bank of Ukraine will probably favor a policy of strengthening the hryvnia against the U.S. dollar as a way of containing consumer inflation and reacting to the robust inflow of hard currency.

KYIV, Jan 27 – Ukraine is prepared to quickly resume the transit of natural gas through its territory for Eastern European countries – though not Russian gas, but Azerbaijani gas-Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced after discussions with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Davos earlier this week.