KIEV, Jan. 8 - Inflation in Ukraine accelerated to 0.5% in December after slowing to 0.2% in November, the State Statistics Service reported.

KIEV, Dec. 28 – The National Commission for Energy Regulation has revised prices of gas extracted in Ukraine for 2013 for large gas extracting companies in which the state holds over 50% interest.

BRUSSELS, Jan. 2 – Kiev and international financial institutions are finishing talks on the allocation of $308 million for the modernization of the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod gas pipeline, Ukraine's representative to the European Union, Ambassador Kostiantyn Yeliseyev, said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Jan. 2 – Effective January 1, Article 265 of the Tax Code took effect, according to which tax on property other than land plots is introduced.

Amendments to the Tax Code were made by law No. 4834 of May 24, 2012 which took effect on July 1, 2012. This is linked to the fact that the taxation base for immovable property is calculated on the basis of data from the state register of ownership rights to property, which under the law on amendments to some Ukrainian laws on the ensuring of the realization of rights to immovable property during state registration is introduced from January 1, 2013.

KIEV, Jan. 3 – Ukraine’s stalled oil refining and electrometallurgical sectors are to resume operation in 2013, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said, opening a cabinet meeting on Thursday.

"We are to resume operation of the oil refining, chemical and electrometallurgical sectors. We should achieve the implementation of the decisions made aimed at the reduction of production expenses of domestic producers in the areas," he said.

KIEV, Jan. 8 - Ukraine cancelled its earlier plans to hire APCO Worldwide Inc., a Washington-based strategic communication firm, for promoting globally a planned $1 billion liquefied natural gas terminal project, a government agency reported Tuesday.

KIEV, Dec. 29 - Royalties for natural gas and oil, which is produced in Ukraine and supplied to commercial consumers or pumped into underground storage facilities, will increase by several times as of Jan. 1, 2008, according to the 2008 budget approved Dec. 28 in Parliament.

KIEV, Jan. 4 - Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko promised that Ukraine would maintain normal supplies of natural gas for its domestic and foreign customers despite national oil and gas company Naftogaz being, in her words, "on the verge of bankruptcy."

KIEV, Jan. 8 - Donetsk-based ISTIL (Ukraine) mini-steel mill in January through December 2007 increased finished rolled steel output by a preliminary 13.8% year-on-year, to 973,000 tons, steel output by 11.5%, to 1.026 million tons, a representative of the mill told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Jan. 8 - Ukrainian mining and metallurgical companies in January through December 2007 increased production of main types of steel products by an estimated 5-8% year-on-year, a source in the Industry Ministry reported.