KIEV, Nov. 26 – Real estate lending is being constrained due to the overflow of funds to more profitable state borrowing instruments used to patch budget gaps, the volume of which could reach $16-18 billion in 2013, according to Troika Dialog Ukraine Investment Company Managing Director Ihor Petrashko.

KIEV, Nov. 27 – Reports that the government plans to introduce an additional 10% duty on all imported goods are false, according to Economic Development and Trade Minister Petro Poroshenko.

KIEV, Nov. 27 - Ukraine's cabinet of ministers has extended for another 30 days the timeframe for the conclusion of a production-sharing agreement with the companies Chevron and Shell for the production of hydrocarbons at the Oleske and Yuzovske fields.

KIEV, Nov. 27 - Ukraine's Energy and Coal Industry Ministry has again requested of the Energy Community Secretariat the immediate initiation of consultations over the South Stream gas pipeline project, which runs counter to Ukraine's national interests, an informed source in the government told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Nov. 27 – The revenues target of the national budget for 2012 will not be fulfilled, according to Economic Development and Trade Minister Petro Poroshenko.

KIEV, Nov. 27 – Two senior officials on Tuesday attacked a controversial proposal to slap a 15% tax on selling of hard currency by individuals recently backed by the governor of the National Bank of Ukraine.

KIEV, Nov. 27 – The government on Tuesday scrambled to contact Gas Natural of Spain after the company flatly denied reports of its involvement in $1 billion liquefied natural gas terminal project in Ukraine.

KIEV, Nov. 25 – Atomproektengineering, a subdivision of National Nuclear Generating Company EnergoAtom, is planning to submit to the government a feasibility study for the completion of the construction of Khmelnytsky nuclear power plant's reactors three and four in H1 2012.

KIEV, Nov. 25 – The State Property Fund has allowed DTEK to participate in a tender to sell a 45.103% stake in Lviv-based public joint-stock company Zakhidenergo.

The SPF said that DTEK is in line with all of the requirements demanded from bidders.

KIEV, Nov. 24 – The Energy and Coal Industry Ministry has selected the winners of tenders for concession of the integrated property complexes of state enterprises Rovenkiantracit and Sverdlovantracit (both based in Luhansk region), the ministry's press service reported on Thursday.