KIEV, June 13 ??“ Ukraine??™s new car sales rocketed 81% on the year in May after Russian automaker AvtoVAZ had cut prices ahead of July 1 when most of its cars will not be allowed for imports.

KIEV, May 14 -- In May sales of new cars in Ukraine fell 8.1% in comparison with May 2004, when about 21,000 cars were sold, or 35% down in comparison with April 2005, Auto Consulting information and analytical group reported.

KIEV, June 14??”Roman Shpek, the authorized representative of Ukraine to the European Union, and head of the steel committee of the general commerce directorate of the European Commission Roelof Kleiter have initialed in Brussels an agreement on trading with certain types of steel goods for 2005-2006, which provides a quota on Ukrainian metal product supplies to the EU in 2005 of 980,000 tons, and 1,004,500 tons in 2006.

KIEV, June 14 - Ukraine's law enforcement authorities in the Ivano-Frankivsk region filed a lawsuit seeking to liquidate Lukor, a joint venture between Russian oil giant Lukoil and Oriana, a local petrochemical company, a source at Lukor said Tuesday.

KIEV, June 14 - The Prosecutor General Office (PGO) filed a lawsuit seeking to cancel last year??™s government resolution that allowed the Russian aluminum group Rusal to skip construction of an aluminum smelter in Ukraine.

KYIV, May 13 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has published the first forecast for oilseeds for the 2020/2021 marketing year (MY, September-August), according to which export of vegetable oil from Ukraine will be 6.93 million tons.

KYIV, May 13 – The Cabinet of Ministers has lifted a ban on export of ethyl alcohol (as a raw material for medical purposes and the pharmaceutical industry) from Ukraine from May 15 instead of the previously set deadline on June 1.

KYIV, May 11 – Russia's possible cessation or restriction of supplies of petroleum products and coal to Ukraine from June 1 does not pose problems for the Ukrainian energy sector and the market for light petroleum products, while in other segments the government is working to minimize risks, Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said.

KYIV, May 11 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny has every opportunity to complete unbundling as a condition for attracting a foreign partner to managing the gas transportation system of Ukraine by January 1, 2020, and Naftogaz CEO Andriy Kobolev is responsible for this, Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said.

KYIV, May 13 – The Prosecutor General's Office launched a pretrial investigation into the possible interference of state officials in the work of judges during a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council on PrivatBank case on April 18.