KIEV, Dec. 28 - The Cabinet of Ministers has approved the modernization and repair of the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod gas pipeline on the section 4,101.3-4,128.4 km.

KIEV, Dec. 28 - Azovelektrostal (Mariupol, Donetsk region), part of Azovmashinvest Holding, in the framework of commissioning works on the launch of the main equipment after a year of inactivity has conducted test smelting in the DSP-25 furnace, making the first three of the twelve parts ordered by ArcelorMittal Algeria.

KIEV, Dec. 27 - Ukraine will seek the European Union’s involvement in a joint venture to upgrade and to operate natural gas pipelines that move bulk of Russian gas to Europe, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said Friday.

KIEV, Dec. 30 – Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has instructed government members to continuously coordinate work in their areas of responsibility during the upcoming New Year and Christmas holidays, in particular, to ensure the smooth payment of pensions, social benefits, as well as the stable functioning of essential services.

KIEV, Dec. 30 – President Viktor Yanukovych has signed a law, which increases the deficit of the national budget for 2013 by UAH 19.4 billion, to UAH 69.98 billion, and the ceiling of state debt for the end of the current year by the same sum, to UAH 502.48 billion.

KIEV, Dec. 30 – Ukraine's gross domestic product, after declining by 1% this year, will resume its slow growth, and rise by 1.5% in 2014, Moody's Investors Service said.

KIEV, Dec. 30 - Ukraine’s second-largest oil refinery will most likely resume operation in July 2014, Volodymyr Prystiuk, the head of Luhansk regional state administration, said.

KIEV, Dec. 30 – Azovobschemash, part of public joint-stock company Azovmash (both based in Mariupol, Donetsk region) is preparing to supply a third batch of special-purpose equipment in 2014 for the Cyclone-4 rocket complex being built by Ukraine and Brazil at the Alcantara Space Center in Brazil.

KIEV, Dec. 30 - Gazprom will most likely reduce its natural gas prices on supplies to Ukraine after January 10, Deputy Prime Minister Yuriy Boyko said Monday.

KIEV, Dec. 30 – An activist at Road Control, a website exposing traffic police corruption, has fled Ukraine after receiving threats that he may be arrested or even assassinated.