KIEV, May 5 – The Antimonopoly Committee insists that the government relaxes the requirements to selecting auditors of large state-owned enterprises (SOE), as the requirements outlined in government resolution No. 390 dated 2015 are discriminatory.

KIEV, May 4 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny has annulled a tender to provide investment banking services related to Naftogaz upstream assets in Egypt and search for potential buyers, as less than two bids were submitted.

KIEV, May 4 – The decisions of the High Court of Justice in London under Russia's lawsuit against Ukraine over $3 billion bond debt would not be an obstacle for the issue of new bonds, Finance Minister Oleksandr Danyliuk said.

KIEV, May 4 – The strategy for state-owned banks being designed will focus on settling the problem of competition between the financial institutions, first of all PrivatBank and Oschadbank, Finance Minister Oleksandr Danyliuk said.

KIEV, May 5 – Ukraine's Finance Ministry believes that the priority task in public borrowing is to increase demand for hryvnia-pegged tools on the domestic market, Finance Minister Oleksandr Danyliuk said.

KIEV, May 5 – The Ukrainian government will continue insisting on making a decision to increase the quotas for Ukrainian food products by the European Parliament, despite the rejection of making this decision by the Committee on International Trade (INTA) of the European Parliament, Deputy Economic Development and Trade Minister, Trade Representative of Ukraine Natalia Mykolska has told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, May 5 – In a development that may affect bilateral relations, the residents of Liubashisvky district of Volyn region have blocked demarcation work along the Belarus-Ukraine.

KIEV, May 6 - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development will issue a loan to Chernivtsi to implement an investment project to improve the urban public transport infrastructure through purchase of 40 new trolleybuses, related equipment and modernization of traction substations and contact networks.

KIEV, May 6 – The inspection of nuclear fuel assemblies of transnational company Westinghouse after the first year of their use in the reactor of power unit No. 3 at Yuzhnoukrainsk nuclear power plant revealed no remarkable problems, the station said.

KIEV, May 6 – Ukraine's international reserves 2016 expanded by 4.1%, or $519.5 million, to $13.241 billion, in April, according to rough estimates, the National Bank of Ukraine reported on its website on Friday.