KIEV, Dec. 10 – Former European Commissioner for Taxation, Customs, Statistics, Audit and Anti-Fraud Algirdas Semeta has been appointed Business Ombudsman for Ukraine's Anti-Corruption Initiative, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development office in Kiev said in a statement.

KIEV, Dec. 11 - Ukrainian energy holding DTEK has closed the acquisition of a controlling stake in Naftogazvydobuvannia, Ukraine's largest private gas producer, DTEK said in a statement.

KIEV, Dec. 10 – Cyprus-based Tolexis Trading Ltd and Luxembourg Company of Metals & Alloys SA (LCMA) will bid in a tender where non-state investors in Zaporizhia titanium and magnesium plant LLC (ZTMK) will be selected, the State Property Fund reported.

KIEV, Dec. 10 – Trade unions, Afghan War veterans and Chernobyl cleanup workers have declared they are ready to hold rallies in protest at the cutting of spending on their needs in the state budget for 2013.

KIEV, Dec. 11 – Ukrtransgaz, a subsidiary of Naftogaz Ukrayiny, and Germany's Deutsche Bank AG on Tuesday signed an agreement on the opening of a credit line worth EUR 53.5 million on the upgrade of the Bar compressor station on the Soyuz trunk gas pipeline.

KIEV, Dec. 11 – Ukraine's decision to seek the revision of tariffs within the World Trade Organization is absolutely lawful, as the country is acting in its own interests, Parliament Deputy Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Leonid Kozhara said.

KIEV, Dec. 11 - Ukraine's use of a legal loophole to raise trade barriers around its car industry, livestock farmers and other sectors met a barrage of criticism at the World Trade Organization on Tuesday, as a deadline expired for others to respond to its plan, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Dec. 11 - Ukraine will seek to work with the European Union to upgrade its natural gas pipeline system carrying Russian gas to markets in Europe, Oleksandr Dikusarov, a spokesman at the Foreign Ministry, said Tuesday.

KIEV, Dec. 9 – Chornomornaftogaz has raised a UAH 3.24 billion interest-free loan from Naftogaz Ukrayiny to buy a self-elevating floating drilling rig (SEFDR), Chornomornaftogaz reported in the Vidomosti of the National Commission for Securities and the Stock Market newspaper.

KIEV, Dec. 9 – The Ukrainian cabinet has approved a revised project on the construction of Terminal D at the Boryspil international airport, nearly tripling its cost compared to the initial estimate, to UAH 4.809 billion.