KIEV, May 11 – Ukrenergo has announced an auction on May 18 for access to Ukrainian interstate power lines for electricity exports June 1 through June 30.

BRUSSELS, May 11 – The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), the European branch of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), has expressed its concerns about recent developments in Ukrainian media towards censorship and called on the authorities and media owners to respect standards of press freedom.

KIEV, May 11 – The massive package of aid from the International Monetary Fund to the European Zone will not affect the conditions for providing Ukraine with a loan, IMF Managing Director John Lipsky has said.

KIEV, May 8 – Ukraine and Russia are to discuss cooperation space during the 7th meeting of the bilateral intergovernmental subcommittee in Moscow in June, the National Space Agency of Ukraine (NSAU) told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, May 8 – A group of German companies is interested in participating in Ukrainian gas transportation system tenders, according to Presidential Envoy on International Energy Safety Borys Sokolovsky.

KIEV, May 12 – The weakening of the hryvnia would give an opportunity to keep inflation at 12-14% in 2008, while price growth could be up to 25% without this step, according to director of the treasury at Kiev-based Ukrgasbank, Andriy Ponomarev.

KIEV, May 12 - Crude oil supplies to Ukrainian refineries in April fell by 26.43% year-over-year, to 974,200 tons, a source in the Fuel and Energy Ministry told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, May 8 - The Spanish company Obrascon Huarte Lain, the Turkish group Dogus/Alarko/YAD and American-Turkish-Japanese group Enka-Bechtel in association with Mitsubishi have presented technical information for the selection of a new general contractor for the building of the new Terminal D complex at Boryspil International Airport, the Ukrainian Transport and Communication Ministry reported.

KIEV, May 8 – Most of the construction assemblies built for the third and the fourth reactors of Khmelnitsky Nuclear Power Plant can still be used for the completion of the reactors' construction, Khmelnitsky Director General Mykola Panaschenko said, referring to the preliminary results of a study conducted by the Kiev Research and Design Institute Energoproekt.

KIEV, May 12 - The Sun Land Group Corp. (the United States) by the end of June may submit to the Zaporizhia city authorities a concept for joint financing of the construction of a bridge, according to the city council.