KIEV, April 6 - Funds that Ukraine would receive from Japan after the signing of an agreement on sale of Ukrainian greenhouse gas quotas should be sent to green investment, according to the head of the National Agency for Ecological Investment of Ukraine, Ihor Lupaltsov, who signed the agreement with Japan, has said in an interview with the Dzerkalo Tyzhnya newspaper.

KIEV, April 4 - Ukraine's GDP growth in 2008 will be 6.6% and inflation 15.2%, according to experts of Kiev-based Erste Bank.

KIEV, April 4 - The monetary base in Ukraine in March 2008 grew by 1.6%, to UAH136.4 billion, while monetary stock rose by 4.6%, to UAH416.2 billion, the National Bank of Ukraine reported.

KIEV, April 3 – Alpha Bank of Greece has completed a deal for the acquisition of 90% of Kiev-based Astra Bank, a well-informed source in banking circles told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, April 3 – Around UAH500 million ($99 million) will be allocated from the Kiev city budget as social payments to over 600,000 less well off Kiev residents affected by a suspension of national benefits.

KIEV, April 6 - Altimo, a Russian telecommunications group, has agreed to start negotiations with Telenor of Norway that may lead to a merger of Ukraine??™s No. 1 and Russia??™s No. 2 cell phone companies, a newswire reported.

KIEV, April 6 - The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has changed the mechanism it uses for calculating the official hryvnia exchange rate for a number of foreign currencies, in particular, the Russian ruble.

KIEV, April 6 - UkrNafta, Ukraine??™s largest crude oil producer, plans to keep production of crude oil and gas condensate unchanged this year at the level of 3.1 million mt, the company said in a statement Thursday.

KIEV, April 6 - EnergoAtom, Ukraine's state-owned nuclear power generator, plans to boost electricity output 2.5% on the year to 91 billion kilowatt-hour in 2006, up from 88.7 billion kWh produced in 2005, the company's press service said Thursday.

KIEV, April 6 - Ukraine approved a list of 35 companies to be sold off to investors this year, including a 74.62% in Rosava, a tyre manufacturer, and a 76% stake in Luhanskteplovoz, the only locomotive producer.