KIEV, Feb. 4 – The updated Energy Strategy of Ukraine for the period until 2030, promulgated by the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry on February 4, retains the need to find alternatives to Russian gas imports.

KIEV, Feb. 4 – The National Commission for the State Regulation of Financial Services Markets wants to propose that the National Bank of Ukraine make amendments to the procedure for the purchase and sale of foreign currency on the interbank currency market so that it matches the insurance and currency law of the country.

KIEV, Feb. 5 – Over 10,000 Ukrainian patients have participated or are participating today in clinical trials conducted in the country, according to the Clinical Trials Subcommittee of the Health Care Committee of the European Business Association.

KIEV, Feb. 4 – The Income and Tax Ministry proposes that new excise stamps with three-level counterfeit-proof features be introduced with a simultaneous rise in prices of existing excise stamps, the ministry said in a statement on Monday.

KIEV, Feb. 4 – Ukraine is looking forward to further participation of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in financing of infrastructure projects, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said at a meeting with EBRD President Suma Chakrabarti in Kiev on Monday.

KIEV, Feb. 4 – India's Jindal Steel & Power, one of the largest companies on the global metal and iron ore market, has shown interest in possible cooperation in the development of iron ore fields in Ukraine, the Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry reported.

KIEV, Feb. 5 - The Independent Trade Union of Ukrainian Miners is alarmed at the plans of the government to start the reconstruction of 35 coalmines and close another 35 coalmines.

KIEV, Feb. 5 – A Kazakh court has extended the arrest of two officials of Ukraine's state-owned arms exporter Ukrspecexport to two months, Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara said.

KIEV, Feb. 5 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development anticipates that inflation in Ukraine in 2013 will grow due to a rise in tariffs for energy and an increase in the flexibility of the exchange rate, said Alex Pivovarsky Senior Economist for Eastern Europe at EBRD.

KIEV, Feb. 3 – The Antimonopoly Committee has reduced the size of fines for three large filing stations chains to UAH 350,000-450,000 and imposed the same fines on another two chains as a part of a case on sharp increase of fuel prices in December 2010 and January 2011, Mykola Barash, a representative of the committee, said.