KIEV, Sept. 28 – Ukraine will be able to overcome the financial crisis only by taking more efforts instead of fully relying on the International Monetary Fund’s financial aid, said IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

KIEV, Sept. 26 – Hungary's Ukrenergy Trade ZRt, which is 52% owned by Ukrinterenergo state company, is buying a 50%+1 stake in Poland's Zomar S.A., the president of Switzerland's Korlea Invest Holding AG, Vasyl Bechvarzh, said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Sept. 26 ??“ The increase of export oil duty by Russia on Oct. 1 to $237.6 per ton will not impact the Ukrainian fuel market, TNK-BP Commerce Ltd. Director General Feliks Luniev believes.

KIEV, Sept. 27 ??“ The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of appeals by AeroSvit Airlines against a March 9 ruling by the Higher Economic Court that determined as illegal agreements on purchasing land plots and property at Boryspil Airport, and sent them for hearings at Kiev Regional Economic Court, AeroSvit told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Sept. 27 ??“ Altimo, which manages the telecommunications business of Alfa-Group, is still considering various options for the distribution of assets jointly owned by Altimo and Norway's Telenor, according to Altimo CEO Aleksey Reznikovich.

KIEV, Sept. 28 - Ukraine plans to accumulate up to 3.5 million mt of coal in its stockpile by the end of October, up from about 3.3 million mt that had been accumulated a year ago, the energy and fuel ministry said in a statement Thursday.

KIEV, Sept. 28 - SmartGames, a Russian group of companies producing slot machines, has opened a production site in Kiev and started selling medium-price slot machines (priced $4,000-$6,000), SmartGames representative in Ukraine Igor Golovitsin said, Interfax-Ukraine reported.

KHARKIV, Sept. 28 - The German firm Natursafte is going to build a juice factory outside Kharkiv, Yaroslav Yushchenko, the deputy chairman of Kharkiv Regional Administration, who has recently returned from a working visit to Germany, told reporters, Interfax-Ukraine reported.

KIEV, Sept. 28 - Hewlett-Packard, the world's second biggest maker of notebook personal computers, opened a giant computer assembly plant in Ukraine as it seeks to expand quickly on a strongly growing market.

KYIV, Aug 26 – Ostchem Holding, which unites Group DF's nitrogen chemistry enterprises, has raised prices for mineral fertilizers by 10-15%, according to an exclusive commentary by Group DF's press service to Interfax-Ukraine.