KIEV, March 16 – Yuriy Alekseyev replaced Oleksandr Zinchenko on the post of director general of the National Space Agency of Ukraine from March 15, according to a posting on the official Web site of the agency.

MOSCOW, March 16 - The launch of a Russian-Ukrainian military Dnepr conversion carrier rocket, with the CryoSat-2 European research satellite, from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan has been set for early April, announced Vladimir Andreyev, the general director of the Dnepr launch operator Kosmotras.

KIEV, March 16 – The State Commission for Securities and the Stock Market (SCSSM) plans to oblige stock exchanges to suspend trading with securities if wide price fluctuations are seen, in order to lessen price volatility on stock markets.

KIEV, March 13 – Viktor Pinchuk, the Ukrainian philanthropist and entrepreneur, has been named the richest Ukrainian by Forbes magazine, replacing Rinat Akhmetov, the leader in 2007.

Four Ukrainians entered the Forbes billionaires list, which was posted on Thursday on the magazine's Web site.

KIEV, March 16 – The Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce will hold the first meeting to consider the lawsuit by the Swiss-registered gas-trader RosUkrEnergo against Ukraine's national gas company Naftogaz Ukrayiny on March 24, Dzerkalo Tyzhnia newspaper reported, citing Naftogaz Ukrayiny.

KIEV, March 13 – Retail prices of A-95 gasoline and diesel fuel in the end of March could grow to UAH5.8-5.85 per liter, even if the prices of oil and fuel are stabilized at the present level in the world, according to Kiev-based United Petroleum Consultants (UPECO).

KIEV, March 13 - The Illich Iron & Steel Works of Mariupol, one of Ukraine's three biggest steel mills, might shut down production due to price increases for iron ore.

KIEV, March 13 – The slowdown in the pace of real GDP growth in January to 4.9% was of short-term blip and linked mainly to the lengthy holidays, which is confirmed by the surge in industrial production to 11.5% in February and to 8.8% in January through February 2008, according to First Deputy Economy Minister Anatoliy Maksyuta.

LONDON, March 13 – The fixed exchange rate of the Ukrainian national currency, the hryvnia, against the US dollar is one of the fundamental reasons for the high rate of inflation in Ukraine, economist Anders Aslund has said.

KIEV, March 14 – The Ukrainian pharmaceutical market in the near future will face a large-scale reorganization after Ukraine joins the World Trade Organization, according to analysts of investment companies polled by Interfax-Ukraine.