KIEV, May 15 - Credit Suisse Bank opened a new representative office whose core business will be to consult Ukrainian clients about banking services, said Michael Vlahovic, the bank's market group head of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

KIEV, May 15 ??“ Canada's IMAX Corporation, which owns the IMAX cinema chain, jointly with Ukraine's Triumph cinema company in December 2007 is to open a 3D-cinema house in Kiev, Triumph Director General Andriy Shpyh said.

KIEV, May 15 ??“ The Ukrainian government has been seeking Monday to accelerate settlement of debts owed to Turkmenistan in a bid to secure greater natural gas supplies from the Central Asian country, officials said.

KIEV, May 15 - Ukraine seeks to take part in the realization of new energy projects in Afghanistan, First Deputy Energy Minister Yuriy Prodan said in Afghanistan, according to the press service of the ministry.

KIEV, May 12 ??“ Ukraine's Economy Ministry, reversing a 12-month policy, suggested to introduce duties on imports of oil products seeking to help domestic oil refineries, Economy Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said.

KIEV, May 15 ??“ AeroSvit, Ukraine??™s biggest airline, and Deutsche Bahn, Germany??™s railroad company, announced a partnership that would allow the companies to help deliver each other??™s passengers to destinations within their countries.

MOSCOW, May 15 ??“ Soyuz Victan Group, Ukraine??™s biggest producer of alcohol, said it plans to purchase its second distillery in Russia and a cognac plant in France, a company official said Monday.

KIEV, May 12 ??“ The Industrial Union of Donbass will file a claim in court to protect its rights if the Polish Treasury Ministry does not give it the right by the end of the current week to hold exclusive talks on Huta Czestochowa steel mill, Oleksandr Pylypenko, the vice-president of the Industrial Group Consortium, which manages IUD assets, said at a press conference in Warsaw on Thursday.

KIEV, May 13 ??“ The Transport and Communication Ministry is planning to prepare a new plan this month to develop Boryspil international airport, Deputy Minister Pavlo Riabikin said on Thursday.

KIEV, May 13 ??“ The Industrial Union of Donbas Corporation (IUD, Donetsk) reports it has signed a ?150.8 million contract with Voest-Alpine Industrieanlagenbau GmbH & Co (VAI, Austria) to buy two oxygen converters for the steel-making workshop of Alchevsk Steel Mill in Luhansk region.