KIEV, June 9 - Polskie Girnictwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo SA (PGNiG, Poland) wants to increase annual imports of gas from Ukraine from the current five million cubic meters to 200 million cubic meters, a newspaper has reported.

KIEV, June 9 – The negative tendencies on the Ukrainian labor market will last for at least two-and-a-half to three more years, according to a forecast by Director of the State Employment Center and Chief of the Executive Directorate of the Fund of Compulsory State Social Unemployment Insurance, Volodymyr Halytsky.

YALTA, June 10 – Proposals submitted by Russia to Ukraine regarding cooperation in various economic sectors in conditions of the economic crisis are limited in time, Russian Ambassador Mikhail Zurabov said.

KIEV, June 10 – Deflation of industrial prices in Ukraine in May increases recessionary pressure on the Ukrainian economy, which is still moving to the bottom of the first crisis, according to Valeriy Lytvytsky, the head of the group of advisors to the governor of the National Bank of Ukraine.

KIEV, June 9 - The Ukrainian public in January to May bought $2.655 billion more in foreign currency than it sold, according to the National Bank of Ukraine.

According to the NBU, over the five months Ukrainians sold $4.724 billion in currency. Along with this, in January to May, the population bought foreign currency worth $7.379 billion.

DONETSK, June 9 – The prosecutor's office of Donetsk region has opened a criminal case on the violation of safety regulations in connection with an accident that occurred at a Donetsk mine on June 8 that killed at least six people.

KIEV, June 10 - The international metals market has bottomed out and started showing signs of recovery, according to Gavin Mackay, business development manager at Switzerland's Ferrexpo Plc, which owns Poltava Mining Mill (Poltava GOK).

KIEV, June 10 – The shortage of housing in Kiev at present is around 17 million square meters, the board chairman of Kiev-based XXI Century developing company, Lev Partskhaladze, said.

MOSCOW, June 9 - Ukrainian national oil and gas company Naftogaz is planning to raise a syndicated loan of $2 billion, a source in banking industry told Interfax.

KIEV, June 10 – The strengthening core inflation factors in Ukraine requires a toughening of monetary and fiscal policies, according to the National Bank of Ukraine.