KIEV, Dec. 13 - Ukrainian businessman Rinat Akhmetov on Friday issued a statement on the situation in the country. Interfax-Ukraine is providing its full text:

"SCM has expressed its position in the first days of the worsening of the situation in Kiev. And I, as an SCM stakeholder, fully share it.

KIEV, Dec. 13 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has announced a tender to select an engineering company to provide consultation services as a part of the project on the construction of the 750 kV Zaporizhia nuclear power plant Kakhovska substation power line.

The contractor will provide technical aid during purchases, oversee the construction process and commissioning of facilities, and provide other services.

KIEV, Dec. 15 – Investment in commercial Kiev real estate more than doubled in 2011, to $400 million, reads a preliminary annual real estate market report of Colliers International issued on Wednesday.

KIEV, Dec. 15 – Regions MP Oleh Tsariov has proposed that Parliament introduce an additional 5% duty for mobile operators and to transfer it to the Pension Fund of Ukraine.

MOSCOW, Dec. 13 - Ukraine in early December entered the Russian-Ukrainian joint venture - private joint-stock company Nuclear Fuel Production Plant into the register for corporations and individuals involved in business activities.

KIEV, Dec. 13 – The majority of economic criminals in Ukraine are representatives of companies' top management (40% in each company), according to the results of the Global Economic Crime Survey 2011 by PricewaterhouseCoopers.

KIEV, Dec. 13 – Kiev and Prague are planning to hold additional consultations regarding the pumping of Azeri oil through Ukraine and Slovakia to the oil refinery in Kralupy (the Czech Republic), Czech Deputy Industry and Trade Minister Milan Hovorka said.

KIEV, Dec. 14 – The losses of farmers due to damage to winter wheat, barley and rapeseeds come to UAH 3.792 million, according to the Ukrainian Agribusiness Club (UCAB).

MOSCOW, Dec. 15 – Lukoil President Vagit Alekperov and head of Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Administration Mykhailo Vyshyvaniuk have signed an agreement on cooperation.

KIEV, Dec. 15 – The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund has put an issue of the first review under the stand-by arrangement with Ukraine on the agenda of its meeting on December.