KIEV, Aug. 13 - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has filed a lawsuit for fraud against a number of professional stock market participants, the list of which includes two well-known investment companies and six traders from Ukraine.

KIEV, Aug. 13 - Ukraine, which faces natural gas shortages due to a dispute with Russia, plans to start Friday testing a Slovakian route for supplies of European gas, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Yuriy Prodan said Wednesday.

MOSCOW, Aug. 13 - The Russian consumer-rights watchdog Rospotrebnadzor has announced its decision to suspend imports of certain types of Ukrainian-made alcoholic drinks from August 15.

KIEV, Aug. 12 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture has revised upwards the forecast for the harvest of wheat in Ukraine in 2013 to 21.5 million tons, while that for the coarse grain yield has been raised to 37.47 million tons, which was 2 million and 2.97 million tons respectively up on the forecasts given in July.

KIEV, Aug. 12 – Ukraine's monetary base expanded by 1.1% in July, to UAH 278.9 billion, while money supply grew by 1.7%, to UAH 850.3 billion, the National Bank of Ukraine said on Monday.

KIEV, Aug. 13 - Ukraine's integrated power grids decreased electricity output by 3.4% or 3.911 billion kilowatt-hours year-over-year in January-July, to 112.093 billion kilowatt-hours, an Energy and Coal Industry Ministry source told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Aug. 13 – All of the work required to prolong the exploitation term of reactor one of Yuzhnoukrainsk nuclear power plant is to be finished on time, acting EnergoAtom President Mykyta Konstantinov said.

YEKATERINBURG, Aug. 13 - Russian titanium monopoly VSMPO-Avisma plans to complete mining the Volchanske deposit in Ukraine, which is being developed by local subsidiary Demurinsk Mining and Processing Works, by 2031.

MOSCOW, Aug. 13 - Russia's list of complaints about the quality of products manufactured by Ukrainian confectionary corporation Roshen keeps growing, Gennady Onishchenko, head of the Russian consumer rights watchdog Rospotrebnadzor and Russia's chief epidemiologist, told Interfax on Tuesday.

KIEV, Aug. 13 – The National Bank of Ukraine has sold 9,800 Ukrainian investment coins worth over UAH 27.5 million since the start of 2012, Deputy NBU Governor Vira Rychakivska said at a presentation of new golden investment coins.