KIEV, Oct. 11 - Moody's Investors Service has changed the outlook on Ukraine's B2 government bond ratings to stable from negative.

"The main drivers for Moody's decision are as follows: the Ukrainian government's improved external liquidity following the new 2-1/2-year $15.1 billion IMF stand-by agreement (SBA) and the successful $2 billion eurobond issue in September; and the narrowing of Ukraine's macroeconomic imbalances as reflected in a significant balance-of-payments adjustment and more recently, a resumption of economic growth," reads the report.

KIEV, Oct. 12 – Kiev city administration plans to additionally raise UAH 400 million from sale of land plots to representatives of foreign commercial firms and diplomatic departments by late 2010, according to Ruslan Kramarenko, deputy head of Kiev city administration.

KIEV, Oct. 9 – The former governor of Nadra Bank and some other top managers have been placed on the wanted list and an investigation at the bank's head office is being carried as part of a case on the embezzlement of the bank's funds, Prosecutor General Oleksandr Medvedko said.

KIEV, Oct. 9 – Ukrainian bank revenues were estimated at UAH 108.2 billion January through September, while their expenses totaled UAH 125.4 billion, the National Bank of Ukraine reported with reference to rough estimates.

KIEV, Oct. 12 – An Austrian and a Spanish company are to bid in a tender to build the Beskidsky railway tunnel in Zakarpattia region.

"We have already completed preliminary qualification of the companies. The first technical stage is coming to an end at the moment. We hope to finalize it in about a week and pass to the second stage.

KIEV, Oct. 12 – Russian businessman Konstantin Grigorishin, who took part in a tender on the sale of OJSC Odessa Port-Side Plant through Frunze-Flora Ltd., has said that the government at present cannot return security funds to tender bidders and connects the payment with a next tranche from the International Monetary Fund.

ODESSA, Oct. 12 – LUKOIL-Odessa Oil Refinery is drawing up an appeal in the courts against OJSC Ukrtransnafta to seek compensation for losses arising from the company's idle period.

KIEV, Oct. 10 – The signing of the presidential decree on the dissolution of Parliament can only worsen the negative expectations of investors in the light of the recession of the international economy, according to experts of Ukrainian investment companies polled by Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Oct. 10 - Oleksandr Shakhov, who is suspected of organizing the Elita-Center fraud on Kiev's real estate market, has been extradited from Switzerland to Ukraine.

An airplane carrying Shakhov arrived at Boryspil Airport at about 4 p.m. on Thursday, Interfax-Ukraine learned from a police source.

KIEV, Oct. 10 – The Antimonopoly Committee has called on domestic oil traders to adequately react to the fall in the price of oil on the international market and cut retail fuel prices.