KIEV, May 6 – The Board of Directors of the World Bank plans to consider a new Development Policy Loan (DPL) for Ukraine on May 22, the bank reported.

On May 27, the board will consider the investment loan to improve energy efficiency and heating in Ukraine.

KIEV, April 29 - Ukraine had a consolidated balance of payments surplus of $1.82 billion in Q1, compared with a deficit of $569 million in the same period last year, the National Bank of Ukraine reported.

KIEV, April 29 – The Council of the National Bank of Ukraine has approved some recommendations to the NBU's board, including on placing restrictions on cash transactions.

KIEV, April 29 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny, with the liberalization of the Ukrainian gas market, expects that the holding will obtain the top-priority right to buy gas on the open market, Naftogaz CEO Yevhen Bakulin wrote in his blog on Ekonomichna Prvada.

KIEV, May 3 – The size of kickbacks in the field of public procurement in Ukraine has more than tripled in the last eight years and reached 60%, according to Oleksiy Khmara, president of TORO Creative Union, the contact group of Transparency International in Ukraine.

KIEV, May 3 – The Board of Directors of Danish airline Cimber Sterling, the majority owner of which is Mansvell Enterprises Ltd. controlled by Ukrainian businessman Ihor Kolomoisky, has decided to declare the company bankrupt.

KIEV, May 3 – The United States has issued an annual report on the infringers of U.S. intellectual property rights, with Ukraine appearing in the report for the first time since 2007, Deutsche Welle has reported.

KIEV, May 3 – The purchase price of a 95.4% stake in Bilozerska mine (Donetsk region) amounted to UAH 202 million, according to an annual financial report of DTEK, Ukraine's largest private vertically integrated energy holding.

KIEV, May 3 – Ukraine is preparing to supply to Iraq in May a second batch of BTR-4 armored personnel carriers, which were assembled at the facilities of the domestic defense industry under a large-scale contract worth more than $550 million for the supply of Ukrainian military equipment to the Iraqi customer, a source familiar with the implementation of the contract told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, May 5 - Ukraine's public debt grew 4% or $1.605 billion to a record $41.29 billion in Q1, the Finance Ministry said on its Web site.

The ministry has revalued the debt as of the start of this year, raising it $1.925 billion from the original $37.76 billion.