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Dubyna: Restructure of Naftohaz Ukrainy's foreign liabilities not linked with gas rates for population and industry Oleh Dubyna, the chairman of the board of the Naftohaz Ukrainy national oil and gas company, has said the restructure of the foreign liabilities of Naftohaz Ukrainy has no impact on the natural gas rates for households and industry.
Oct 3, 2009 at 18:52 | Ukrainian News
Yushchenko insisting on more efficient agrarian policies in 2010 Ukrainian President Victor Yuschenko believes that the government should provide for adequate budgetary financing and create economic stimuli to raise the efficiency of the agrarian policies in 2010.
Oct 3, 2009 at 17:15 | Interfax-Ukraine
DniproAzot withdraws lawsuit against terms of tender on privatization of Odesa Portside Factory DniproAzot, a major producer of ammonia and nitrogen fertilizer based in Dniprodzerzhynsk (Dnipropetrovsk region), has withdrawn its lawsuit challenging the terms endorsed by the Cabinet of Ministers of the tender on privatization of the Odesa Portside Factory in Odesa region.
Oct 3, 2009 at 15:03 | Ukrainian News
Nortima to ask court to declare results of competition for Odesa Portside Factory as legal Nortima limited liability company, which offered the largest price during the competition for the Odesa Portside Factory but was not declared the winner of the competition, intends to ask a court to order conclusion of an agreement of sale of the factory to the company.
Oct 3, 2009 at 15:00 | Ukrainian News
World Bank’s vice president: Ukraine should stimulate private investments not to widen economic gap after crisis Not to widen its economic gap after the crisis, Ukraine needs to take measures to stimulate private investments, World Bank’s Vice President for Europe and Central Asia Philippe Le Houerou said in an interview with the Dzerkalo Tyzhnia (Mirror Weekly) newspaper.
Oct 3, 2009 at 12:55 | Interfax-Ukraine
Naftogaz to buy $500 mln. from Prominvestbank to pay for pumping gas into underground storages The joint-stock company Naftogaz Ukrainy is planning to buy $500 million in foreign currency from Prominvestbank to pay for pumping gas into the country’s underground storage facilities, the Dzerkalo Tyzhnia (Mirror Weekly) newspaper reported.
Oct 3, 2009 at 12:53 | Interfax-Ukraine
Naftogaz eurobond debt restructuring won’t affect gas price increase for households, industry Restructuring of national joint-stock company Naftogaz Ukrainy’s debts won’t affect raising gas prices for households and industrial producers in Ukraine, the company’s CEO Oleh Dubyna said in an interview with the Dzerkalo Tyzhnia (Mirror Weekly) newspaper.
Oct 3, 2009 at 12:50 | Interfax-Ukraine
IMF: Ukraine has cash to cover debt obligations ISTANBUL, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Ukraine has the cash to cover debt obligations and is making some headway in reforming its banking and gas sectors, though budget policies remain problematic, IMF European head Marek Belka said on Saturday.
Oct 3, 2009 at 11:44 | Reuters
ITAR-TASS: Bank of Russia buys some $2.6 billion in 2 days The Central Bank of Russia (CBR) on Wednesday bought about 600 million US dollars on the market and on Tuesday - some 2 billion US dollars, CBR Chairman Sergei Ignatyev told journalists on Wednesday. He said that the Bank of Russia in early September was selling currency – some 500 million US dollars.
Oct 3, 2009 at 10:31
MOSCOW (AP) - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Sept. 24 invited foreign investors to develop a huge untapped gas region in Siberia and indicated that the state could provide tax breaks for projects there.
Oct 3, 2009 at 09:40
Kyiv, October 2 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The Agrarian Fund has been authorized to export up to 500,000 tonnes of grain from the state intervention fund, using grain harvested between 2006 to 2009 in order to stabilize the situation on the grain market and ensure receipts of the state budget's special fund.
Oct 3, 2009 at 09:07 | Interfax-Ukraine
According to preliminary figures released by Ukraine's Industrial Policy Ministry, January to September 2009 finished steel production dropped by 27 percent year-on-year to 19.31 million tons and while crude steel output dropped by 32 percent to 21.68 million tons.
Oct 3, 2009 at 09:03