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NBU boosts international reserves, improves payment position in March The surplus of the National Bank of Ukraine's (NBU) interventions in March totaled $152 million, which enabled it to increase international reserves and improve the payment system, the head of the group of advisors to the National Bank of Ukraine governor, Valeriy Lytvytsky, said.
Mar 30 at 21:59 | Interfax-Ukraine
Weather Center: Ukraine's gross winter wheat crop could drop 37-46% in 2012 The gross harvest of winter wheat in Ukraine this year could be 37% to 46% smaller than the previous one due to unfavorable weather conditions, according to the head of the agricultural meteorology department of the Ukrainian Weather Center, Tetiana Adamenko.
Mar 30 at 21:30 | Interfax-Ukraine
Epicenter Kyiv to open 14 hypermarkets, increase turnover by 35% in 2012 Epicenter K (Kyiv), which is developing a chain of eponymous construction materials hypermarkets in Ukraine, plans in 2012 to expand its chain in Ukraine to 50, opening 14 new hypermarkets, Company CEO Petro Mikhailishin has told Interfax-Ukraine.
Mar 30 at 18:21 | Interfax-Ukraine
Zakhidenergo decides to pay Hr 24.1 million in dividends for 2011 Shareholders in energy generating company PJSC Zakhidenergo (Lviv) at a general meeting on March 28 decided to pay out 30% of the company's net profit in dividends for 2011, which is about Hr 24.077 million.
Mar 30 at 16:40 | Interfax-Ukraine
Naftogaz: Gas transit through Ukraine to Europe down almost 50% in recent days Ukraine's national oil and gas stock company Naftogaz Ukrainy has reported that the gas being pumped to Europe has decreased to almost half of the amount planned lately.
Mar 30 at 12:28 | Interfax-Ukraine
Ukraine's Naftogaz seeks $2 billion Gazprombank loan Ukrainian state energy firm Naftogaz is in talks with Russia's Gazprombank for a $2 billion loan with a term of up to seven years to finance gas purchases for the next heating season, the government said on Thursday, March 29.
Mar 30 at 07:34 | Reuters
Donetskoblenergo renamed as DTEK Donetskoblenergo The shareholders of energy supply company PJSC Donetskoblenergo at a meeting on March 27 decided to rename the company DTEK Donetskoblenergo.
Mar 29 at 17:23 | Interfax-Ukraine
Naftogaz Ukrainy selects Gazprombank for $2 billion credit line Ukraine's national oil and gas stock company Naftogaz Ukrainy has chosen Gazprombank as the provider of a $2 billion credit line to be used for settlements for Russian gas imports.
Mar 29 at 14:32 | Interfax-Ukraine
Yanukovych says its unfair to shift consequences of high gas price onto public Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has said that it is unfair to shift onto the public the consequences of a high price of Russian gas for Ukraine.
Mar 29 at 13:32 | Interfax-Ukraine
Tax service: More than 300 millionaires registered in Ukraine More than 300 citizens of Ukraine declared incomes at the level of over Hr 1 million over 2011, the press service of the State Tax Administration has said on Thursday, March 29.
Mar 29 at 12:24 | Interfax-Ukraine
PACE co-rapporteurs complain to Lytvyn they were not allowed to see Tymoshenko The co-rapporteurs of the Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Marietta de Pourbaix-Lundin and Mailis Reps, have expressed their concern over the refusal by State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine officials to allow them to meet with former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in the Kachanivska penal colony, the Verkhovna Rada's press service has reported.
Mar 28 at 13:14 | Interfax-Ukraine
Crimean premier offers Firtash to invest in agricultural development of peninsula SIMFEROPOL - Crimean Prime Minister Anatoliy Mohyliov has offered Ukrainian businessman Dmytro Firtash to invest into the state-owned farms, which were handed over by the Ukrainian government from the Defense Ministry and the Agrarian Policy Ministry of Ukraine to the Crimean government.
Mar 27 at 19:40 | Interfax-Ukraine
Forecast wholesale market price of electricity in Ukraine to grow by 1.3% from April 2012 The forecast price of electricity on the wholesale electricity market of Ukraine from April 1, 2012 will grow by 1.3%, from Hr 670.94 to Hr 679.39 per megawatt-hour (VAT not included), the National Commission for Energy Regulation (NCER) has told Interfax-Ukraine.
Mar 27 at 16:19 | Interfax-Ukraine
Ukrainian Journal: New economy minister trying to woo Russia Newly appointed Economy Minister Petro Poroshenko on Monday sought to ease trade tensions with Moscow, and said that Ukraine may benefit from Russia’s joining the World Trade Organization later this year. Poroshenko, on his first business day after his appointment to the post, met Viktor Khristenko, a Russian official and the head of the Eurasian economic commission, in Kyiv to discuss the trade issues.

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Mar 27 at 10:07
Naftogaz predicts reduction in price of Russian gas in 2012 Ukraine's state oil and gas company Naftogaz has predicted a reduction in the price of Russian natural gas in the second quarter of 2012, Naftogaz Deputy CEO Vadym Chuprun has said.
Mar 26 at 19:57 | Interfax-Ukraine