KIEV, June 9 – The Executive Committee of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) meeting on June 9 in Zurich (Switzerland), chose Ukraine as the venue for the 2012 World Newspaper Congress, World Editors Forum and Info Services Expo, according to Focus online.

KIEV, June 9 - The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has revised its grain harvest forecast for Ukraine in the 2011/2012 marketing year (July 2011 through June 2012) upwards by 1.3%, or 550,000 tons, from the forecast given in May, to 43.9 million tons.

KIEV, June 9 – Russia will not agree to revise gas contracts of 2009 until 2019, so Ukraine should reduce gas consumption, according to Bohdan Sokolovsky, former Ukrainian presidential envoy for international energy security.

KIEV, June 10 - Group DF is planning to introduce natural gas and electricity consumption reduction projects at nitric mineral fertilizer producers, according to director general Robert Shetler-Jones.

KIEV, June 10 – Businessman and MP Rinat Akhmetov has topped Korrespondent Magazine's list of the richest people in Ukraine for the sixth year in a row.

KIEV, June 10 – The World Bank has approved a $200 million loan for Ukraine’s State Export-Import Bank (Ukreximbank) as part of an energy efficiency project in Ukraine.

The Ukrainian bank said that the guarantee agreement between Ukraine and the World Bank and the loan agreement between Ukreximbank and the World Bank were signed on June 10.

KIEV, June 10 – Spain's Hera Group plans to build a garbage recycling plant in Crimea, investing over EUR 30 million into the waste recycling sector through a Joint Implementation (JI) mechanism as a part of the Kyoto protocol, reads a posting on the Web site of the Crimean Council of Ministers.

KIEV, June 11 – The merging of aviation industrial complexes of Ukraine and the Russian Federation should take place gradually, Ukrainian Industry Minister Dmytro Kolesnikov said.

KIEV, June 11 – The National Bank of Ukraine has increased its forex reserves by $2 billion, to $28.5 billion, using only market mechanisms and giving a signal of reliability of the bank's positions to the market, according to Valeriy Lytvytsky, the head of the group of advisors to the NBU governor.

KIEV, March 13 – Regions Party MP Rinat Akhmetov has topped this year's list of the richest people by the Korrespondent Magazine for the third year running.

The magazine estimates the fortune of the Donetsk businessman, head of financial and industrial holding System Capital Management, and president of Shakhtar football club at $17.8 billion.