KIEV, Oct. 10 – Kiev's business court has scheduled a hearing of a claim filed by Ukraine's Antimonopoly Committee asking to collect UAH 85.966 billion from Russia's Gazprom for October 31, the court announced.

KIEV, Oct. 8 - The International Monetary Fund in October improved its forecast for Ukraine's GDP growth in 2013 by 0.4 percentage points compared to the April expectations, to 0.4%.

KIEV, Oct. 9 – The Ukrainian government has approved a decision to raise a loan of UAH 2.6 billion (about $330 million) under state guarantees in 2013 as additional funding for the implementation of a joint project with Brazil to build the Cyclone-4 space rocket complex at the Alcantara Launch Center in Brazil, Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said at a government meeting on Wednesday.

KIEV, Oct. 10 - A major Ukrainian gasoline retailer, West Oil Group, which operates under WOG brand, plans to expand the number of gasoline filling stations by 20% to about 600 stations in 2014, the company reported Thursday.

KIEV, Oct. 8 – The state agency for state corporate rights and property management has transferred 100% of the shares in state-run enterprise Titan Ukrainy to the State Property Fund to privatize its assets and liquidate the company, reads a report in the information disclosure system of the National Commission for Securities and the Stock Market.

KIEV, Oct. 9 - Volyn Regional State Administration has approved a project to complete the Odessa-Brody pipeline to Plock (Poland), said administration chief Borys Klymchuk.

KIEV, Oct. 9 – Kiev’s Kraina insurance company announced it has extended an agreement on voluntary medical insurance for the employees of the mining and metals company ArcelorMittal Kryviy Rih (Dnipropetrovsk region).

KIEV, Oct. 10 - State-run Chornomornaftogaz (Simferopol) in January-September increased its natural gas extraction by 14.7% or by 108 million cubic meters year-over-year, to 843 million cubic meters, the company reported.

KIEV, Oct. 7 - Parliament on Friday passed a law on the abolition of duties on exports of wheat and corn, but retained the duty on barley exports at 14%, but not less than EUR 23 per ton.

KIEV, Oct. 7 - Ukraine's Antimonopoly Committee has ordered Lukoil Ukraine (Kiev), Okko Naftoproduct (Lviv), Zoloty Ekvator (Golden Equator) and Alliance Holding (Kiev region) to reduce their gasoline, diesel fuel and liquefied gas prices.