BRUSSELS, Oct. 14 – The European Commission is considering the possibility of storing natural gas at Ukraine's underground gas storage facilities to ensure greater supply security, EU Energy Commissioner Gunther Oettinger said.

KIEV, Oct. 15 – The top managers of the Boryspil International Airport (Kiev) have decided to change the status of passenger terminal F and use it as a cargo terminal in the future.

KIEV, Oct. 15 – The technical state of reactor one of Yuzhnoukrainsk nuclear power plant will allow it to be exploited beyond its designed lifespan if all declared work is carried out on schedule, EnergoAtom has determined, referring to the results of the comprehensive inspection of the reactor at the plant.

KIEV, Oct. 15 - The National Bank of Ukraine has expanded its mandatory sales of foreign currency revenues.

Under the new NBU rules, all companies and individual businessmen must sell their foreign currency revenues coming in from abroad on the interbank currency market.

KIEV, Oct. 15 - Russia and Ukraine on Tuesday agreed to create and join a group of regional grain exporting countries in order to coordinate policies and charge higher prices for the commodity.

KIEV, Oct. 15 - Ukraine’s second largest maker of ferroalloys, Zaporizhia Ferroalloy Plant, won tender to purchase a local power delivery substation in a bid to lower costs and to prevent a shutdown, a local administration reported Monday.

KIEV, Oct. 15 – DTEK, Ukraine’s biggest coal mining and power company, said Monday it will increase exports of thermal coal to Russia in order to diversify its markets and reduce dependence on domestic customers.

MOSCOW, Oct. 15 - The construction of the Odessa-Brody-Plotsk-Gdansk oil pipeline might call into question the possibility of resuming the Burgas-Alexandroupolis pipeline, Deputy Vice President of Russian pipeline monopoly OJSC Transneft Igor Katsal said in an interview with the corporate magazine 'Oil Pipeline Transport.'

KIEV, Oct. 15 – The deficit of Ukraine's foreign trade in commodities January through August 2009 was $3.758 billion, less than one-third the same period last year ($12.583 billion), the State Statistics Committee said on Wednesday.

Exports of commodities in the first eight months of this year were estimated to be worth $23.750 billion, which was 50.6% of the January-August 2008 period, while imports of commodities in January through August 2009 totaled $27.508 billion, or 46.2% of the same period last year.

KIEV, Oct. 13 – The Ukrainian cabinet will agree to increase tariffs on gas for households in 2009, which would allow the International Monetary Fund to issue a $3.1 billion tranche under the Stand-By program, despite the non-fulfillment of most of the agreements that were reached earlier, according to a senior economist at the International Center of Policy Studies Ildar Hazizullin.