KIEV, Oct. 11 – DTEK and Donetskstal Iron and Steel Works are being allowed to take part in the next stage of a tender for the concession of the integrated property complexes of state enterprises Rovenkiantracit and Sverdlovantracit (both based in Luhansk region), a source in the Energy and Coal Ministry said.

KIEV, Oct. 11 – The rise in inflation to 2.9% in September should not be dramatized, but it is necessary to note that a high inflation rate is a greater threat than the further weakening of economic growth, said Valeriy Lytvytsky, the head of the Advisers Group of the National Bank of Ukraine.

KIEV, Oct. 11 - Moody's Investors Service Inc. raised the outlook on Ukraine's credit rating to stable from negative Monday, citing an improvement in the country's external liquidity position since it agreed to a new financing program with the International Monetary Fund.

MOSCOW, Oct. 8 - Russia and Ukraine plan to form a commercial uranium enrichment joint venture, Sergei Kiriyenko, the chief of Russia's state nuclear corporation Rosatom, told reporters.

KIEV, Oct. 11 – The cabinet decision to impose grain export quotas is groundless, said Leonid Kozachenko, president of the Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation.

"I think that [the introduction of grain export] quotas is a wrong decision. We have excess of grain, which should be exported, so export should be supported, and everything should be done so that farmers received the maximum price of its products," he said.

MOSCOW, Oct. 11 - Karpatnaftokhim Ltd. (Kalush, Ivano-Frankivsk region, part of Lukoil Group) plans to launch PVC production facilities in December, the head of the Lukoil department, Alexander Rappoport, said at the Polymers of Russia third international forum.

KIEV, Oct. 11 – The endorsement of the tax code would cut the tax burden in 2011 by over UAH 4 billion, Finance Minister Fedir Yaroshenko said during the debate on the draft Tax Code in Parliament.

KIEV, Oct. 9 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny has announced the holders of its eurobonds worth $500 million supported the debt swap offer foreseeing eurobond restructuring for five years against state guarantees.

KIEV, Oct. 9 - The State Road Service (Ukravtodor) plans to borrow $600 million from the World Bank to renovate the Lubny-Poltava highway.

"Taking into consideration the positive experience of cooperation with international financial organizations and the limited budgets in the near-term outlook, the government has decided to prolong cooperation with the IFOs, namely the World Bank," Ukravtodor said in a statement.

KIEV, Oct. 10 – An Indian national employed by Arcelor Mittal at its Ukrainian steelmaker was injured late Friday after a company car was sprayed with fire from a hunting rifle, a local police reported Saturday.