KIEV, Sept. 14 – More than half of the people in Ukraine think that the state is moving towards instability and do not trust the president, according to a poll conducted by the International Foundation for Electoral Systems in July.

KIEV, Sept. 12 – The United States Department of Agriculture has revised Ukraine's grain harvest for 2011 up by 6.5%, or by 3.1 million tons, to 50.4 million tons from the forecast given a month ago.

KIEV, Sept. 13 – The banking community is concerned that an increasing number of National Bank of Ukraine regulations are being passed without discussion with bankers, the Ukrainian Crediting and Banking Union said in a statement.

KIEV, Sept. 13 – Horlivka-based OJSC Stirol Concern in Donetsk region has joined OstChem Holding AG (Austria), which is controlled by businessman Dmitry Firtash's Group DF, Group DF said in a statement.

KIEV, Sept. 14 – Skorzonera Ltd. (Polianytsia, Ivano-Frankivsk region), the owner of the well-known Bukovel ski resort, could suspend the complex's activity if the arrest of the complex's property is not lifted, Volodymyr Yuziuk, the head of the marketing and advertising department at the company, told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Sept. 14 - Ukraine and Russia will start approving draft credit and guarantee agreements on completing the third and fourth reactors at Khmelnytsky nuclear power plant in the middle of September, Volodymyr Bronnikov, the director general of Atomproektengineering, a subdivision of Energoatom, told journalists in Kiev.

KIEV, Sept. 14 – The overall revenues of the national budget for 2010 are projected at UAH 284.8 billion, outlays at UAH 336.2 billion; the budget deficit is forecast at 3.97%, acting Finance Minister Ihor Umansky said at a special cabinet meeting on Saturday.

KIEV, Sept. 11 – Ukraine’s economic independence is under threat because of the government's ill-considered policy, according to potential presidential candidate and banker Serhiy Tihipko.

KIEV, Sept. 11 - Deliveries of crude oil with condensate to Ukraine's five oil refineries as well as the Shebelynka gas refinery fell 9.7% to 7.079 million tons in January-August compared to the same period of 2008, the Fuel and Energy Ministry told Interfax.

KIEV, Sept. 11 – January through August bank revenues 2009 amounted to UAH 95.7 billion (UAH 11.5 billion in August, UAH 12.2 billion in July), while expenditures totaled UAH 111.1 billion (UAH 13.9 billion in August and UAH 15 billion in July), the National Bank of Ukraine reported.