KIEV, June 6 - Energy Community Secretariat Director Janez Kopac has said that as the practice of recent years shows, Gazprom does not observe the generally used rules of the European Union, so the transfer of the Ukrainian gas transport system to it could result in negative consequences.

KIEV, June 5 - The National Bank of Ukraine is planning to gradually switch to a policy of a flexible currency exchange rates, said Olena Scherbakova, director of the general department for monetary and credit policy at the NBU.

KIEV, June 5 – The cost of the Clean City national project for construction of 10 solid waste recycling plants with a capacity of 100,000-300,000 tons per year will reach around EUR 435 million, said Vladyslav Kaskiv, head of the State Agency for Investment and Management of National Projects.

KIEV, June 6 - Inflation in Ukraine could accelerate at the end of 2012, as the country's consumer market, in contrast to the previous year, will not have much support in the form of a large harvest, International Monetary Fund Resident Representative in Ukraine Max Alier said.

KIEV, June 6 - Activ Solar (Austria) announced it has finished constructing the first stage of a solar power plant in Okhotnykove (Crimea) with a generating capacity of 20 megawatts and started its launch.

KIEV, June 6 – Russia's Rostselmash, one of the largest world's manufacturers of agricultural machinery, has postponed a project to assemble combines and create joint production facilities in Donetsk region due to the absence of financing, said Kyrylo Sevriukov the director of Rostselmash's representative office in Ukraine.

MOSCOW, June 3 – Ukrainian suppliers have won a tender announced by Lebanon to buy 25,000 tons of wheat, in which Russia also participated for the first time after lifting a grain embargo, a source on the Russian grain market has told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, June 3 - The International Finance Corporation will issue $80 million in financing to Galnaftogaz Concern (Lviv) to implement a development program worth $210 million in the next two years, according to an IFC report.

ZAPORIZHIA, June 3 – The creation of the Ukrainian-Russian UAC-Antonov joint-venture is a new stage in cooperation of Ukraine and Russia in aircraft manufacturing, which will ensure the development of both countries' priority aerospace projects, according to Viacheslav Bohuslayev, chairman of Zaporizhia-based OJSC Motor-Sich.

KIEV, June 6 – Kiev-based Rentechno Company is planning to build a 1.786-megawatt solar photovoltaic power plant in the south of Vinnytsia region, said the company's director for development, Dmytro Lukomsky.