KIEV, July 4 – All 34,000 polling stations in Ukraine will be equipped with video surveillance systems at the parliamentary elections scheduled for October 28, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said at a meeting with OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Vice President and member of the Austrian Parliament Wolfgang Grossruck.

KIEV, July 5 – Kiev’s Markus Bureau has won a tender to select an assessor of the market value of the property of Zaporizhia Titanium and Magnesium Combine (ZTMK), which is used for the formation of the charter capital of a limited liability company being created with an investor, reads a report in the Vidomosti Pryvatyzatsii newspaper.

KIEV, July 5 – Representatives of business will have to revise their investment policy in Ukraine for the next few years if import duties for certain groups of goods are increased, as it will be impossible to predict the economic regulation and plan business even in the short-term outlook, according to the European Business Association.

KHARKIV, July 5 - Shell plans to spend about $200 million under an agreement with Ukrainian gas producer Ukrgazvydobuvannia to drill three gas exploration wells in Kharkiv region, Graham Tiley, the head of Shell's operations in the country, told reporters.

KIEV, July 5 – Nestle company, one of the world's leading food companies, has opened the Nestle Shared Business Services Center Europe to provide financial and employee services to Nestle operating companies in Central and Eastern Europe.

KIEV, July 4 – Metinvest, the largest mining and metal holding in Ukraine, increased its consolidated profit by 30.8% in 2010 to $37 million, the company reported to the London Stock Exchange.

MOSCOW, July 4 – The International Uranium Enrichment Center (IUEC), "the guaranteed supplier" of uranium to countries that do not have their own enrichment capacities, is planning to start commercial supplies of nuclear materials, and Ukraine could become the first recipient.

KIEV, July 2 – The merger of Bank Kiev with Rodovid Bank or Ukrgasbank could lead to a rise in the size of bad debts and the worsening of the quality of a credit portfolio of the newly created structure, according to Oleksiy Kharytonov partner of the ILF law firm.

KIEV, July 5 – The National Communications Regulatory Commission is ready to start drawing up the rules for retaining subscribers' phone numbers if subscribers change operators, as soon as the relevant law takes effect.

KIEV, July 2 – Turboatom, the largest turbine equipment producer in Ukraine, plans to take part in the realization of projects to upgrade and supply equipment worth around $100 million to energy facilities in Argentina and Uruguay.