KIEV, Oct. 10 – The European Business Association has appealed to Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn regarding the revision of a draft law on safety and the quality of foodstuffs (No. 8493), saying it is not in line with the requirements of European Union law.

KIEV, Oct. 10 – The inflation figure of 0.1% registered by the State Statistics Service in September is a new historic record that increases the likelihood of the fulfillment of the inflation target of the national budget for this year (8.9%) to 75%, according to Valeriy Lytvytsky, the head of a group of advisors to the governor of the National Bank of Ukraine.

MOSCOW, Oct. 10 – The Russian government has approved a draft agreement on the regulation of supplies of some types of steel pipes from Ukraine to Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.

KIEV, Oct. 8 – Ukraine and Azerbaijan are planning soon to sign an economic and cultural strategic cooperation plan for 2011-2015, Azerbaikani Deputy Prime Minister of Azerbaijan Yaqub Eyyubov said at a briefing after a meeting of the Ukrainian-Azeri intergovernmental commission for economic cooperation in Kiev on Thursday.

KIEV, Oct. 8 – Core inflation in Ukraine in September accelerated to 1.5% compared to 0.6% in August, the State Statistics Committee reported.

Since the beginning of this year, core inflation has reached 5.5%, again lagging behind consumer inflation, which reached 7.4% in the first nine months of 2010 after it grew by 2.9% in September 2010.

KIEV, Oct. 7 – Ukraine is planning to agree with Azerbaijan on an increase in supplies of light Caspian oil to Ukrainian oil refineries, First Deputy Prime Minister Andriy Kliuyev said at a briefing on Thursday after a regular meeting of the Ukrainian-Azerbaijani intergovernmental commission on economic cooperation.

KIEV, Oct. 7 – The growth of industrial producers' prices in Ukraine in September slowed to 0.1% after rising by 0.9% in August 2010, the State Statistics Committee said on Thursday.

KIEV, Oct. 7 - Russia's Sberbank is prepared to lend $1 billion for priority efforts to finish building generating units at the Khmelnytsky nuclear power plant in Ukraine, a source at EnergoAtom, the state corporation that operates Ukrainian nuclear plants, told Interfax.

KIEV, Oct. 7 – The State Tax Administration assesses the total debt for VAT reimbursement at UAH 10 billion, STAU head Oleksandr Papaika, has said.

KIEV, Oct. 8 – The renovation of Kiev's Zhuliany international airport will be completed by the end of 2008, said first deputy Kiev mayor Denis Bass.