KIEV, Jan. 14 - Russia's Atomstroiexport, the UTEM-engineering daughter company, Uzhteploenergomontazh and Ukrainian Design Institution Atomenergostroiproject (all based in Ukraine) have signed a contract to complete measures to increase safety at the Shelter facility of the Chornobyl nuclear plant, according to a posting on the official Chornobyl web site.

KIEV, Jan. 14 - The refunding of defaulted Soviet-era deposits will not considerably accelerate inflation, according to bankers polled by Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Jan. 14 – Ukraine and Slovakia on Monday pledged to use existing oil pipelines on their territories for arranging a test-run shipment of Caspian Sea crude to an oil refinery in the Czech Republic.

KIEV, Jan. 12 ??“ Credit-Dnepr signed an agreement with German AKA Ausfuhrkredit-Gesellschaft mbH on cooperation in financing import contracts of Ukrainian companies, the Ukrainian bank reported on its Web site.

KIEV, Jan. 12 ??“ Ukrsotsbank, Ukraine??™s No. 6 bank by assets, reported net profits rising almost 150% to UAH 289.29 million in 2006 from UAH 117.3 million in 2005 due to growing lending to individual and corporate clients.

MOSCOW, Jan. 12 - The average contract price of natural gas for delivery from Russia to other CIS countries rose 220% in January-November 2006, the Federal Customs Service (FCS) said.

KIEV, Jan. 14 ??“ Naftogaz Ukrayiny, the national oil and gas company, seeks to acquire a 50% stake in RosUkrEnergo, a Swiss-based gas trader, that has been recently named the key gas supplier to Ukraine.

KIEV, Jan. 13 - Ukrainian industrial output slowed to 3.1% in all of 2005, compared with 12.5% a year ago, the State Statistics Committee reported on its web site Friday.

KIEV, Jan. 13 - Ukraine recorded a $1.3 bln deficit in trade with goods in the first eleven months of 2005, compared with a surplus of $3.4 bln for the same period a year ago, as a strengthened hryvnia boosted demand for imports.

KYIV, Dec 10 – The European Investment Bank (EIB) on Friday allocated EUR 50 million of loans to Ukraine, which will be used to finance coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination program in the country, in particular, to purchase a sufficient amount of vaccines against COVID-19.