KIEV, Aug. 14 – The Ukrainian authorities shut down Demonoid, a leading global player in digital music piracy, in late July in what originally seemed like a DDoS attack, International Business Times reported citing a source.

KIEV, Aug. 14 - A husband and wife pair of Russian opposition activists suspected of attacking riot police at an opposition rally in May have fled to Ukraine and are seeking political asylum, Interfax reported Monday.

KIEV, Aug. 14 - Ukraine selected ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell to lead exploration and development of the Skifske deepwater natural gas field offshore the Black Sea, rejecting a bid from Russia’s Lukoil, the Financial Times reported.

KIEV, Aug. 11 – The chief audit department in Odessa region uncovered several infringements worth a total of UAH 1.084 billion during checks on the economic and financial operations of Odessa maritime merchandise port for the period from January 1, 2009 to December 31, 2010, reads a press release of the department issued on Thursday.

KIEV, Aug. 12 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture has boosted its forecast for Ukraine's grain harvest this year by 11.6% over its last-month's forecast, or by 4.9 million tons to 47.3 million tons.

KIEV, Aug. 12 – The Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Ministry expects in September to sign a credit agreement worth EUR 200 million with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to finance the second stage of the reconstruction of hydroelectric power plants of the Dnipro and Dniester cascades.

KIEV, Aug. 12 - ViDi Group is planning to invest about $15 million into the construction of a Mazda dealer center, the second dealer center of the ViDi AutoCity Boryspil car city, located on the Kiev-Boryspil road.

KIEV, Aug. 12 – Prices for commercial real estate in Kiev, due to the current situation on the bank crediting market, may fall by 10-12% by late 2008, Valentyn Vechersky, the head of the department of commercial real estate in Traektoria Ltd. (Kiev), told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Aug. 13 - Fitch Ratings says it anticipates weak FY 2007 results by Naftogaz of Ukraine ('B+'/RWN), stemming largely from the company's inability to fully recover gas import prices from its domestic sales, Fitch said in a statement.

KIEV, Aug. 14 – Rockwool Group (Denmark) is not intending to review its plans for development in Ukraine because of the financial crisis in the country, the result of which is a decrease in construction volumes, and a fall in housing and construction materials sales, Yaroslav Pidlypchak, the Rockwool Polska marketing specialist, told Interfax Ukraine.