KIEV, July 19 ??“ About 250,000 laptops worth $225 million will be sold in Ukraine in 2006, a 120% rise on 2005, the president of AVentures Group, a large Kiev-based market operator, Volodymyr Kolodyuk, has said.

"The laptop sales dynamics of H1 pushed us to revise up the annual sales forecast by 50,000 units," he is quoted as saying by his company's press service.