KIEV, Nov. 11 - EuroCement Group's Ukrainian plants – Baltsem and Kramatorsk Cement Plant Pushka - have no plans to reduce their stake on the cement market despite the current economic crisis, EuroCement Group Ukraine's head of sales, Alexander Pogrebnoy, told Interfax.

KIEV, Nov. 11 - Ukraine increased electricity output 1.1% to 160.134 billion kilowatt hours in January-October compared to the same period of 2007, the Fuel and Energy Ministry told Interfax.

KIEV, Nov. 12 – Forty insurance companies have announced intent to become members of the Construction Insurance Pool (CIP), CIP Director General and chairperson of the Spektr insurance company's board Iryna Okayaniuk said at a press conference on Tuesday.

KIEV, Nov. 12 - The U. S. Department of Agriculture has improved its forecast for the grain harvest in Ukraine by 1 million tons, with rises of 500,000 tons for fodder grain and maize, respectively.

KIEV, Nov. 9 - Ukraine exported 7.996 billion kWh of electricity in January through October, down 3.3% or 276.5 million kWh year-on-year, the Fuel and Energy Ministry told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Nov. 9 - Curbing prices for natural gas extracted in Ukraine, together with the ban on its sale to industrial consumers, is harming the financial and economic activities of ChornomorNaftoGaz, the only state enterprise that develops hydrocarbon deposits in Ukrainian part of the Black and Azov Sea shelves, according to company Chairman Anatoliy Prysiazhniuk.

KIEV, Nov. 9 - Finance Minister Mykola Azarov believes that the level of inflation in Ukraine in 2007 will not exceed that seen over the last four years.

KIEV, Nov. 12 – A Ukrainian delegation headed by Economy Minister Anatoliy Kinakh is headed for talks with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, a part of the World Bank group, to negotiate a $300 million development policy loan.

KIEV , Nov. 9 - OTP Group will start setting up a financial group in Ukraine in 2007, a representative of Kiev-based OTP Bank told Interfax.

KIEV, Nov. 9 ??“ The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has announced that in February 2007 it ill select a contractor to draft a design project, build and launch a new safe Shelter confinement facility over Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant??™s destroyed fourth reactor.