KIEV, Dec. 13 – The Cabinet of Ministers is preparing a proposal on the creation of the new National Agency for Infrastructure Projects in Ukraine, the operation of which will be coordinated by the government via the deputy prime minister and infrastructure minister.

KIEV, Dec. 13 - Belarus plans to supply 2.1 million-2.2 million tons of light petroleum products to Ukraine in 2012, the general director of BNK-Ukraine, Nikolai Vasilevich, told journalists during the 7th annual conference "Ukraine's Motor Fuels Market: Key Trends, Marketing and Technologies" in Kiev.

KIEV, Dec. 13 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny is planning to design a model for the functioning of a fuel stabilization fund by March 2012, said Felix Lunev, an advisor to the Naftogaz chairman.

KIEV, Dec. 12 - Germany's Martin Bauer Group has been given permission to acquire Zhytomyr-based Liktravy, the Antimonopoly Committee reported last week.

The committee said that MB Beteiligungs Gmbh, part of Martin Bauer Group, was permitted to buy over 50% of the shares in the Ukrainian company.

KIEV, Dec. 12 – The sunflower harvest in Ukraine in the 2011/12 marketing year (MY, September-August) will be 8.5 million tons, 9% more than the previous estimate, according to forecasts by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

KIEV, Dec. 12 – Czech Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Milan Hovorka said that his country wants to see the signing of provisions on a free trade area between Ukraine and the EU.

KUZNETSOVSK (Rivne region), Dec. 13 – EnergoAtom is leaving open the possibility of producing fuel for VVER-440 reactors in Ukraine, EnergoAtom President Yuriy Nedashkovsky, said.

KUZNETSOVSK (Rivne region), Dec. 13 – The credit committee of Russia's Sberbank on December 25 is to discuss the issue of a $1 billion credit for the construction of reactor three and reactor four of Khmelnytsky nuclear power plant.

KIEV, Dec. 10 - The National Bank of Ukraine intends to include the Russian ruble as a forex reserve, thereby increasing the diversification of gold and forex reserves in the country, the NBU's Governor, Volodymyr Stelmakh, told Interfax.

KIEV, Dec. 13 – Dniproavia, which is under control of Ihor Kolomoisky, is ready to buy a 61.58% state-owned stake in CJSC Ukraine International Airlines for $65 million, and has asked the State Property Fund of Ukraine to organize an open auction for the sale of the stake.