KIEV, Nov. 14 - Ukraine will seek to resume imports of natural gas from Turkmenistan within six months after signing a free trade agreement with Russia, a government official said Monday.

KIEV, Nov. 11 - The State Statistics Service on January 1, 2012 will augment its Ukrainian consumer basket with nine items, raising the total number to 335.

KIEV, Nov. 11 – Ukraine's government is ready to allocate the necessary resources for the production of light-emitting-diodes (LEDs) in the next two years, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said.

KIEV, Nov. 11 – The Association of Farmers and Private Land Owners has called on President Viktor Yanukovych to help resolve the current situation with the export of grain.

KIEV, Nov. 11 – It is too risky to invest in the Ukrainian oil market while some market players enjoy certain preferences, says Deputy Director General of Lithuania's Orlen Lietuva (formerly Mazeikiu nafta) Arturas Lauciavicius.

KIEV, Nov. 11 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny estimates its spending on the settlement of a dispute with Swiss-based natural gas trader RosUkrEnergo at UAH 9.6 billion, reads an audited consolidated report by Naftogaz for 2009 perfomed under international standards.

KIEV, Nov. 12 – The Fuel and Energy Ministry is mulling the construction of 58 small hydroelectric and hydroelectric pumped storage power plants (GES and GAES) in the basins of the Dniester, Prut and Siret rivers, according to a posting on the energy ministry's Web site.

KIEV, Nov. 12 – The Fuel and Energy Ministry has recommended the postponement of Euro-4 and Euro-5 fuel quality standards for two years, said Oleksandr Matviychuk, the head of the State Committee for Technical Regulation and Consumer Policy.

KIEV, Nov. 12 – Ukraine has distributed quotas for the export of 2.114 million tons of grain until the end of 2010 from the total size of the quota of 2.7 million tons.

KIEV, Nov. 12 - The government will shortly allocate 3.6 billion hryvnias to the national oil and gas company Naftogaz Ukrayiny to compensate losses from lower-than-market natural gas prices, an official said Friday.