KIEV, May 14 – The Regional Development, Construction, Housing and Utilities Economy Ministry today discussed investment projects in the housing and utilities and regional development areas with the possibility of raising some UAH 15 billion from international financial organizations, Minister Hennadiy Temnyk said.

KIEV, May 14 – Ukraine is planning by October to announce a tender to select partners to create a consortium to build a liquefied natural gas terminal, Vitaliy Demyaniuk, the head of the coordination council of the national project, told reporters.

KIEV, May 11 – Ukraine climbed to seventh in terms of spam-zombies (computer networks spreading spam) in 2011, Oleksandr Suiazov, Symantec's information security consultant for Russia and CIS member states, said at a press conference in Kiev on Friday.

KIEV, May 11 – Ukrainian businessman Dmytro Firtash says he plans to acquire an oil refinery and a filling station chain.

KIEV, May 11 - The Ukrainian banking sector remains subdued, constrained by the still large stocks of problem exposures on banks' balance sheets and periods of turbulence in hryvnia liquidity, Fitch Ratings has said in a newly published special report.

DNIPROPETROVSK, May 14 – The highest level of daily metal production at Ukrainian metals companies this year was registered in February, the director general of Dnipropetrovsk-based Metalurhprom industrial association, Vasyl Kharakhulakh, said at a meeting of representatives of mining and metals companies of Ukraine held in Dnipropetrovsk on Wednesday.

KIEV, May 13 - As a result of the actions of the Cabinet, the price of natural gas for most end users in Ukraine's industry and comparable consumers will rise to UAH1,476.71 for 1,000 cubic meters as of June 1, clearing the psychological barrier of $300 for 1,000 cubic meters.

KIEV, May 14 – The construction of a passenger terminal at Boryspil State International Airport will be completed by late 2010, according to a plan designed by air company AeroSvit-Ukrainian Airlines, said Transport and Communications Minister Yosyp Vinsky.

LONDON, May 14 - Fitch Ratings announced it has revised Ukraine's Outlooks to Stable from Positive.

Ukraine's Long-term foreign and local Issuer Default Ratings (IDR) are affirmed at 'BB-' (BB minus). The Country Ceiling is affirmed at 'BB-' (BB minus) and the Short-term foreign currency IDR at 'B'.

KIEV, May 14 - Ukraine’s largest oil refinery, UkrTatNafta, plagued by a dispute with Russian oil company Tatneft, one of its shareholders, started to import crude oil from Belarus, a source at the company said Wednesday.