KIEV, Sept. 11 – Kiev-based T.M.M. construction company announced plans to invest around $180 million in the building of a recreation center on the eastern coast of Crimea near the Fox Bay between Sudak and Feodosiya.

MOSCOW, Sept. 11 - Ukraine was the leading CIS country in terms of the aggregate share of insurance premiums in the country's GDP in 2006, according to a ssurvey prepared by Interfax-CEA.

KIEV, Sept. 11 - The limitations on rates of foreign loans for Ukraine's residents introduced by the National Bank of Ukraine may negatively influence the liquidity of Ukrainian banks and to prompt increase of the interest rates for currency loans, according to leading bankers.

KIEV, Sept. 12 - Architects of Sweden's SWECO group will design a project on the construction of a hotel in Kiev region near the Boryspil state international airport, which will be managed by Rezidor Hotel Group, the world's hotel business operator with the main office in Brussels, according to an official SWECO report.

KIEV, Sept. 12 - Publication of information on the sale of state stakes in regional electricity supply companies is expected in early October, the director of the department for sale of stocks on stock exchanges and holding tenders at the State Property Fund, Yuriy Yakovlev, told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Sept. 12 - Lukoil will reopen the Odessa Oil Refinery on Oct. 25 following reconstruction that began in the summer of 2005, company President Vagit Alekperov told reporters in Kiev.

KIEV, Sept. 12 - The expected grain harvest in Ukraine in 2007 at 29-30 million tons would allow the country to resume exports, according to Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Slauta.

KIEV, Sept. 11 ??“ AeroSvit ??“ Ukrainian Airlines has moved to 175th in the rating of the world's Top-200 largest passenger airlines, rising by eight positions.

KIEV, Sept. 11 ??“ The consumption of energy resources and oil products in Ukraine in H1 was 106.6 million tons of secondary and primary types of fuel, down 2.3% down year-on-year, the State Statistics Committee reported.

KIEV, Sept. 11 ??“ Ukraine??™s capital city should borrow money from abroad to help finance commercial projects, Kiev Mayor Leonid Chernovetsky said.