BRYANSK, May 5 - Russian and Ukrainian transport ministers Igor Levitin and Kostiantyn Yefymenko on Tuesday in Bryansk signed a plan of action to implement the concept of integrating the transport systems of Russia and Ukraine for 2010-2013.

KIEV, May 6 - Supatcha Resources Inc. (Denver, Colorado, the United States) has signed a letter of intent to acquire a 98% interest in the property of Maiskoe gold mine in Odessa region, Savaransky District, Southern Ukraine.

SOCHI, May 6 - Russia's state nuclear power corporation Rosatom has begun development work with Ukraine of a list of the two countries' atomic assets in the framework of an idea for creating a single atomic energy company, Rosatom chief Sergei Kirienko said during a meeting with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Sochi.

KIEV, May 6 – Russia's OJSC United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) is considering merging with two Ukrainian companies - Zorya-Mashproekt gas turbine scientific and industrial complex (Mykolaiv) and OJSC Feodosiya More Shipyard, according to the company's president Roman Trotsenko.

KIEV, May 5 - BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Ltd., which manages assets worth over $1.3 trillion, has increased its stake in oil and gas producing company Regal Petroleum Plc, which holds holding key assets in Ukraine, to 11.14% from 10.23%.

KIEV, May 6 – The estimated cost of the construction of an orbital road around Kiev is around UAH 50 billion, not taking into account the price of land, according to First Vice Premier and a candidate for Kiev mayor post, Oleksandr Turchynov.

KIEV, May 6 – Ukraine's Defense Ministry has worked out and submitted to the National Communications Regulatory Commission a draft plan on the conversion of radio frequency bands, the ministry told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, May 6 – The contamination of sunflower oil during its production and export is impossible, according to the director general of the Ukroliyaprom Association, which unites Ukrainian sunflower oil producers, Stepan Kapshuk.

KIEV, May 6 – The consolidated losses of the national Naftogaz Ukrayiny for 2006 under international accounting standards were UAH2.178 billion, which is UAH 1.171 billion more year-over-year, according to a consolidated report of the state holding for 2006 audited by Ernst & Young, which was also sent to Interfax-Ukraine.

The consolidated revenues from sales of Naftogaz Ukrayiny fell by 25.4%, or by UAH 9.392 billion year-over-year, to UAH27.575 billion, and its gross profits went down by 8.3%, or UAH 143,000, to UAH1.581 billion.

KIEV, May 6 – The pace of change in the balance of payments in 2008 allows an increase in the flexibility of the hryvnia exchange rate and a review of the exchange rate forecasts for this year by the Council of the National Bank of Ukraine, according to Valeriy Lytvytsky, head of the group of NBU advisors.