KIEV, Oct. 8 – Despite statements by Ukrainian GSM operators that the price of a license for the use of the 2 GHz radio frequency spectrum to provide 3G mobile communications services is very expensive, the final price set at the tender could double, according to experts polled by Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Oct. 9 – The construction of the Tsyklon-4 (Cyclone-4) space complex at Brazil's Alcantara space center is being carried out according to schedule, Deputy Head of the National Space Agency of Ukraine Eduard Kuznetsov told Interfax-Ukraine.

MOSCOW, Oct. 9 - Russian oil major Lukoil said it hopes to settle the problems surrounding its Odessa Oil Refinery in Ukraine within a month.

"We are now in talks. I hope we will agree our operations and the refinery will get back to normal operations," Lukoil President Vagit Alekperov told Vesti television.

KIEV, Oct. 11 - It is important for the European Union to cooperate with Ukraine in the military sector and in other areas, Chairman of the European Union Military Committee General Henri Bentegeat said at a meeting with Ukraine's Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief and head of the General Headquarters Serhiy Kyrychenko during a visit to Ukraine on Thursday.

KIEV, Oct. 11 – At least two years will be needed for talks to arrange sufficient supplies of Caspian Sea crude via Odessa-Brody to big oil refineries in the European Union, a Ukrainian official said Thursday.

KIEV, Oct. 9 – Kremenchuk technical carbon plant (Poltava region) plans to start supplying its product to the Turkish branch of the Bridgestone Corporation in 2008.

KIEV, Oct. 9 – Ukraine's Antimonopoly Committee has permitted AXA company (France) to purchase a large stakes in Kiev-based Ukrainian Insurance Alliance (UIA) and Vesko insurance company.

KIEV, Oct. 10 - The World Bank could approve a partnership strategy for the World Bank and Ukraine for 2008 - 2011 that envisions investment of up to $1 billion annually, senior economist at the World Bank office in Ukraine Martin Raiser said in Kiev Tuesday.

KIEV, Oct. 11 – The government working group to check the issue of the creation of a JV to complete the building of Kryvy Rih Mining and Enrichment Plant for Oxidized Ores (KGOKOR) recommends continuing its creation with the earlier selected investor – Ukrainian Ore-Metallurgical Company, the head of the State Property Fund, Valentyna Semeniuk, told Interfax-Ukraine.

WARSAW, Oct. 11 - Ukrainian metallurgy group Industrial Union of Donbas' Polish unit, ISD Polska, has been allowed to inject capital into the Polish Baltic Sea based Gdansk shipyard, a transaction which could gain it an approximate 75% stake in the shipyard, according to Thursday’s business daily Puls Biznesu.