KIEV, June 10 – Perchersky District Court in Kiev has satisfied a petition of Vanco Prykerchenska Ltd. asking that it recognize the final decision of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, which on December 28 approved an amicable production sharing agreement on Prykerchensky deposit of the Black Sea shelf between the company and Ukraine.

KIEV, June 10 – Ukraine's gross domestic product shrank by 1.1% in the first quarter of 2013 year-over-year, according to finalized figures released by the State Statistics Service on Monday, which in late April gave a preliminarily estimate of its fall at 1.3%.

MOSCOW, June 7 – The construction of a nuclear fuel plant in Ukraine will be 70% financed using borrowed funds, said Vasily Konstantinov, vice president of Russia's TVEL.

MOSCOW, June 7 – National Nuclear Generating Company EnergoAtom is continuing to study the price characteristics of TVSA-12 fuel made by OJSC TVEL, said Vasily Konstantinov, vice president of the Russian fuel company.

MOSCOW, June 8 –Ukraine's first national telecommunications satellite - the Lybid – will not be launched in 2013 due to the fact that it took a year-and-a-half to agree on the orbital position of the satellite, chief designer and director general of OJSC Information Satellite Systems "Reshetnev Company" (ISS) Nikolai Testoedov said in an interview with Interfax-AVN.

KIEV, June 8 – South Africa plans to develop cooperation with Ukraine in the space sector, the State Space Agency of Ukraine announced.

The agency said that the issue of establishing cooperation was discussed by the sides at a meeting of Deputy Head of State Space Agency of Ukraine Serhiy Zasukha and South African Ambassador to Ukraine Stanley Chupu Matabata.

KIEV, June 8 – The first day of trading on Black Sea wheat futures on the Chicago Board of Trade finished with the signing of three deals that formed prices for September 2012 at $254.40 per ton, announced CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace.

KIEV, June 8 - Naftogaz Ukrayiny, the national energy company, on Thursday paid about $648 million to Russia's gas giant Gazprom for natural gas imported in May, the company said in a statement Friday.

KIEV, June 8 - Prime Minister Mykola Azarov on Friday invited Anglo-Dutch Shell to participate in upcoming tenders for development of two major deep-water offshore Black Sea natural gas fields, the government’s press service reported.

KIEV, June 10 – A mystery deepened on Thursday over the source of $2 billion in cash that hit the Ukrainian government’s accounts Tuesday, with senior officials being either unaware or providing conflicting statements.