KIEV, Feb. 12 - Fitch Ratings has affirmed Kiev-based Bank Forum's ratings at Short-term Issuer Default 'B', Individual 'D/E' and Support Rating Floor 'No Floor', the ratings agency said in a statement on Tuesday.

KIEV, Feb. 12 – UkrGaz-Energo reported net profit of UAH917.953 million in 2007, an increase of 6.1%.

KIEV, Feb. 12 – The Crimean Economic Court on Jan. 1 opened a case on the bankruptcy of state Feodosiya More Shipyard, a high-tech company of the Ukrainian defense complex, according to an official report in the Parliament newspaper published last week.

KIEV, Feb 13 - A methane gas leak killed three miners Monday in a coal mine in eastern Ukraine, emergency officials said.

The leak occurred about 1 kilometer (3,280 feet) beneath the surface at the Bazhanova mine in the town of Makeyevka in the Donetsk region, Emergency Situations Ministry spokesman Ihor Krol said.

KIEV, Feb. 12 ??“ Soyuz-Victan USA, a part of Soyuz-Victan group of companies, and major U.S. alcohol distributor Glazer's have sign a five-year cooperation agreement.

KIEV, Feb. 12 ??“ Ukraine's biggest privately-held holding company, System Capital Management, may resort to massive borrowing and other transactions later this year to improve its corporate structure, SCM's financial director Roman Vodolazsky said.

KIEV, Feb. 13 ??“ TAS-Kommerzbank and TAS-Investbank could be renamed by the end of this year following the acquisition of the assets by Swedbank, TAS-Kommerzbank Board Chairman Serhiy Tihipko said.

KIEV, Feb. 13 ??“ Karavan will spend $740 million over the next three years to expand its chain of retal and entertainment centers in Ukraine from two to 15, Karavan CEO Denis Sluchinsky said.

KIEV, Feb. 13 ??“ VimpelCom, Russia??™s No. 2 cell phone company, offered to buy 100% of Kyivstar, Ukraine??™s No. 1 cell phone company, for $5 billion in the company??™s shares, the Russian cell phone company reported Monday.

MOSCOW, Feb. 13 - Ukrainian vodka producer Nemiroff boosted by 53% on the year exports to Russia to $262.5 mln in 2005, the company said Monday.