KIEV, Dec. 12 - Kiev City Administration is about to sign a memorandum with Siemens on the production of European-type trams.

A prototype of the tram Siemens plans to manufacture in Kiev was demonstrated at an event in Kiev on Wednesday with the participation of Kiev Mayor Leonid Chernovetsky.

MOSCOW, Dec. 13 - Evraz Group will pay a total consideration of $2 billion-$2.2 billion for the Ukraine-based assets that it intends to acquire from the Privat Group, including approximately $1 billion cash, Evraz said in a statement.

MOSCOW/KIEV, Dec. 13 - Alex Shnaider and Eduard Shifrin, founders and co- owners of the Midland Group, which owns various assets in Russia and Ukraine, are buying a controlling stake in Israel's Maccabi Tel-Aviv football club.

ZAPORIZHIA, Dec. 12 - Construction of the Antonov An-124 Ruslan, the biggest serially made aircraft in the world, could be resumed in 2008, and the companies Motor Sich and Volga-Dnepr plan to build up to 20 planes by 2012-2015.

ZAPORIZHIA, Dec. 12 - The Ukrainian aircraft engine-building industry should establish closer cooperation with Russian aerospace companies, rather than Western companies, President of the Motor Sich Viacheslav Bohuslayev says.

KIEV, Dec. 12 ??“ The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development will lend $85 million to ISTIL, a small Ukrainian steel mill, to improve cost and energy efficiency, quality control and for restructuring the existing debt.

KIEV, Dec. 13 ??“ Ukraine is to introduce differentiated excise rates for diesel fuel depending on its sulfur content, according to a law signed by President Viktor Yushchenko on Tuesday.

KIEV, Dec. 13 ??“ METRO Group, the world??™s third largest retailer, invested 1 bln hryvnias, or 170 mln euros, over the past 2.5 years to build a chain of wholesale centers in Ukraine, the company said Tuesday.

KIEV, Dec. 13 - TNK-BP, Russian oil major, started construction of a wastewater purification facility at its Linos oil refinery in Ukraine, TNK-BP's Ukrainian subsidiary said in a statement Tuesday.

KIEV, Dec. 10 ??“ The Council of the National Bank of Ukraine, the central bank??™s top authority, set a limit on how far can the bank go in spending its hard currency reserves in propping up the hryvnia.