KIEV, Dec. 4 – A strategic cooperation agreement with Europol and an agreement establishing the European Investment Bank's office in Ukraine will be signed at the Ukraine-EU summit in Kiev on Friday, according to the Delegation of the European Union to Ukraine.

KIEV, Dec. 4 - Naftogaz Ukrayiny said Friday it paid Russian gas giant Gazprom in full to for November natural gas imports, easing concerns over possible tensions between the two companies.

KIEV, Dec. 6 - A tender to issue 3G (UMTS) licenses is to be held in September 2008, the head of the National Communications Regulatory Commission (NCRC), Volodymyr Zverev, told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Dec. 6 - The price of gasoline in Ukraine will hit EUR1 per liter in two or three years, forecasts Volodymyr Pustovarov, the first deputy chairman for economy and finance of Ukraine's largest oil producer, Ukrnafta.

KIEV, Dec. 4 - Retail and wholesale prices for all kinds of fuel continued to grow in Ukraine in the last week, UPECO consulting company told Interfax-Ukraine on Tuesday.

KIEV, Dec. 4 - Shareholders in Naftokhimik Prykarpattya (the Nadvirna oil refinery in Ivano-Frankivsk region) are considering the possibility of temporarily shutting down the refinery due to a shortage of oil for refining.

KIEV, Dec. 5 - Ukraine's gold and foreign currency reserves will total nearly $33 billion at the end of 2007, compared with $31.71 billion at the start of November, National Bank of Ukraine Deputy Chairman Alexander Savchenko predicts.

KIEV, Dec. 5 - Electricity production in Ukraine rose by 1.4% or 2.366 billion kWh year-on-year to 175.999 billion kWh in the first eleven months of 2007, the Fuel and Energy Ministry told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Dec. 6 - The number of Kyivstar GSM's subscribers increased by 4.43%, or 810,000 people, over the past month to reach 19.06 million as of Dec. 1, according to a company press release Tuesday.

KIEV, Dec. 5 ??“ Image-Holding company, one of Ukraine's major vodka producers, hopes to boost the market share of its Khortytsia brand to 29.4%, the Blagov brand to 5.6%, and the Medovukha brand to 5%.