KIEV, April 2 - Ukraine reduced coal production approximately 12.5% year-on-year in January-March to 17.718 million tons, the Coal Ministry told Interfax.

Coking coal production fell 19.7% to just over 5.88 million tons, and steam coal fell 8.5% to 11.83 million tons.

KIEV, April 3 – Ukraine’s State Aviation Administration plans to conduct the certification of five Ukrainian airlines under new standards in 2009.

Deputy Transport and Communications Minister and eead of the State Aviation Administration Oleksandr Davydov said that Wizz Air Ukraine, Ukraine International Airlines, AeroSvit-International Airlines, Antonov Design Bureau and Dniproavia would undergo certification.

KIEV, April 3 – Ukraine consumed around 2.5 billion cubic meters of imported natural gas in January to March, which is around 50% of the volume stipulated in contracts for this period, said Naftogaz Ukrayiny spokesman Valentyn Zemliansky.

KIEV, April 5 ??“ The unstable political situation in Ukraine may result in a fall in demand and prices for real estate, Artur Oganesian, the managing director of Parker&Obolensky real estate agency, said.

KIEV, April 5 ??“ Hyundai Motors Ukraine, the official distributor of Hyundai cars in Ukraine, plans to sell 600 Elantra cars in Ukraine in 2007, Serhiy Krasulia, a spokesman at Bogdan, said.

KIEV, April 5 ??“ Mandarin Plaza, one of the biggest real estate investors in Ukraine, opened the Parus business center in downtown Kiev, the tallest office tower in the city.

KIEV, April 5 ??“ Ukraine??™s consumer prices fell 0.3% on the month in March, led by lower foodstuffs and gasoline prices, helping the government to keep inflation at better-than-expected level in the first quarter, officials said.

KIEV, April 5 ??“ Ukraine will probably tap Boeing and Airbus, the world??™s two biggest aircraft makers, to buy out Russia in a military transport plane project, Economy Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said Wednesday.

KIEV, April 5 ??“ President Viktor Yushchenko??™s Our Ukraine party voted on Wednesday to form a coalition with two other parties that had helped Yushchenko win the presidency in dramatic presidential election in 2004.

KIEV, April 5 ??“ The government will hold series of meeting starting Saturday to scrutinize books of Naftogaz Ukrayiny, the national oil and gas company, rumored to be on the verge of a major financial crunch.