IVANO-FRANKIVSK. Sept. 7 - Russia's Lukoil-Neftekhim is planning to invest about $1 billion in setting up a new facility to process plastic and raw petrochemicals at Ukraine's Karpatnaftokhim in the Ivano-Frankivsk town of Kalush.

KIEV, Sept. 7 – Ukraine's inflation slowed down in August to 0.6%, from 1.4% in July and 2.2% in June.

The January-through-August inflation rate was 6.2%, the State Statistics Committee reported.

KIEV, Sept. 7 – The Ukrainian cabinet plans to foresee in the draft 2008 and 2009 national budgets UAH240 million annually to finance the Telephone in Every House program, said Deputy Prime Minister Andriy Kliuyev.

KIEV, Sept. 10 - Ukrainian banks saw a profit of UAH4.3 billion in January through August, 48.3% more than the same period last year, the National Bank of Ukraine.

KIEV, Sept. 10 – The national nuclear generating company EnergoAtom announced it will allocate UAH252 million of a credit raised from Alfa-Bank to create a nuclear fuel reserve and realization of a comprehensive program on prolongation of exploitation terms of reactors at Ukrainian nuclear power plants.

KIEV, Sept. 7 ??“ The Cabinet of Ministers has instructed national nuclear energy generating company Energoatom to launch the first turbine of the Tashlyk pumped-storage plant before Oct. 15, and the second before year end.

MINSK, Sept. 7 ??“ Belarus is ready to generate its own electricity instead of importing it from Ukraine if the price of Ukrainian electricity rises in 2007, according to Vladimir Korduba, an aide of the director general of the Belarus national energy company, BelEnergo concern.

KIEV, Sept. 7 ??“ Ukraine in 2006 has improved the conditions for running businesses, according to experts from the World Bank and International Finance Corporation.

KYIV, Aug 9 – Consumer prices in Ukraine in July 2023 decreased by 0.6% after rising by 0.8% in June, 0.5% in May and 0.2% in April, the State Statistics Service reported in Wednesday.

KYIV, Aug 9 – The Coordination platform for solving problematic issues by business and law enforcement, created under the President's Office of Ukraine on behalf of the head of state, is open to the participation of representatives of all business – local or international, and after considering 20-40 specific cases, work will begin on amending the legislation, organizer of the platform, President's Office Deputy Head Rostyslav Shurma told journalists.