KIEV, Dec. 9 - The International Monetary Fund is not insisting on a single-stage increase in household utility tariffs in Ukraine by 40%, but recommends that they be gradually raised to an economically justified level, within several years, IMF Resident Representative in Ukraine Jerome Vacher said.

KIEV, Dec. 6 – Exports of Ukrainian poultry products to the European Union could start in two or three months, Agricultural Policy and Food Minister Mykola Prysiazhniuk said.

KIEV, Dec. 7 – The price of electricity for households consuming over 800 kilowatt-hours of electricity per month could be increased in 2013, said Serhiy Tytenko, who heads Ukraine’s National Commission for Energy Regulation.

KIEV, Dec. 7 – The forecast wholesale market price of electricity on the wholesale electricity market of Ukraine in 2013 will not grow by more than 15% or may even stay at the current level, according to Serhiy Tytenko, head of the National Commission for Energy Regulation.

LONDON, Dec. 7 – The major debt rating agencies have together lowered the boom on Ukraine, in a development that may make it harder and more expensive for the government to borrow and put a severe crimp on the operations of the country’s major banks.

KIEV, Dec. 7 – The Ukrainian government's plans to introduce duties on the import of fuel to Ukraine will end the equality on the market which has been achieved not long ago, Patrick Van Daele, the general manager of Shell Ukraine Exploration and Production, said at a conference dedicated to Ukraine and organized by The Economist magazine, together with the Foundation for Effective Governance in London on Tuesday.

KIEV, Dec. 8 – The creation of joint ventures between Russia's Gazprom and Ukraine’s Naftogaz Ukrayiny to extract coal methane and develop the offshore Pallas natural gas field in the Black Sea will not settle Ukraine's energy problems, Russian experts said at a conference entitled "The energy problems of Europe and the issue of Russian-Ukrainian cooperation" in Kiev on Tuesday.

LONDON, Dec. 9 – Difficulties with VAT reimbursements are a common problem for almost all investors in Ukraine, according to participants of a conference dedicated to Ukraine and organized by the Economist magazine, together with the Foundation for Effective Governance in London on Tuesday.

KIEV, Dec. 9 – A declaration on the content of a strategic partnership between Ukraine and Russia will be signed in the second quarter of 2011, Ukrainian Ambassador to Russia Volodymyr Yelchenko said.

KIEV, Dec. 8 – Retail Group, which manages Velyka Kyshenia supermarket chain, plans to raise up to $150 million to develop the chain, in particular, to buy small and medium Ukrainian trade chains, its CFO Oleh Piavka said.