KIEV, April 6 – The owner of EastOne investment and consulting group and Interpipe Corporation Victor Pinchuk and his wife, daughter of former President Leonid Kuchma, Olena Pinchuk, are ultimate beneficiaries of STB, Novy, ICTV and QTV television networks, which are part of StarLightMedia Group.

KIEV, April 6 – The Cabinet of Ministers at a meeting on Saturday approved a list of loan participation notes, the deals on changing the conditions of borrowing for which will be signed and included eurobonds of state banks, Ukrzaliznytsia and Kiev City in the list.

KIEV, April 3 – The National Commission for Energy Regulation (NCER) has decided to increase retail prices of natural gas for households by over 1.5 times starting May 1.

KIEV, April 3 – Ukrgazvydobuvannia, the largest gas extracting company in Ukraine, has asked the National Commission for Energy Regulation (NCER) to increase the tariff on sale of its gas from UAH 419 per 1,000 cubic meters to UAH 880-890 per 1,000 cubic meters.

KIEV, April 3 – The enterprises of the Ukroboronprom State Concern are ready to supply in the nearest future around 70 armored personnel carriers assembled at tank plants in Kharkiv and Kiev in order to equip military units of the National Guard of Ukraine.

LIPETSK, April 4 – OJSC Lipetsk confectionary factory Roshen, which is part of Ukraine's Roshen Corporation, has resumed operation.

Roshen LLC Director General Konstantin Vakhonin said that the second factory of Roshen in Lipetsk region– in the settlement of Sentsovo – will resume operations on April 4.

MOSCOW, April 4 - Russia is holding negotiations with Ukraine on electricity supplies for Crimea at a price of $85-$90 per MW, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said in an interview with TV channel Rossiya 24.

KIEV, April 4 – The international environmental organization Greenpeace has stated that food products in some regions of Ukraine are still contaminated by radiation after the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986, according to BBC Ukraine.

KIEV, April 4 - Naftogaz Ukrayiny has brought in consulting firm McKinsey & Co to advise on selecting a lead manager for the company's planned initial public offering, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Yuriy Boyko said in an interview with the television channel Inter.

KIEV, April 4 - European Energy Commissioner Gunther Oettinger will visit Ukraine in June for the start of modernization of Ukrainian gas pipelines, Energy and Mining Minister Yuriy Boyko told the Velyka Polityka program of the Inter Channel.