KIEV, Oct. 3 – The Kiev-based Ukrindustria consortium has won a tender to build a coking plant for India's IISCO steel mill, which could become one of the largest contracts implemented by a Ukrainian company abroad in the metallurgical sector, Ukrindustria board Chairman Dmytro Derkach said in an interview with the Ekonomicheskiye Izvestiya newspaper published on Tuesday.

KIEV, Oct. 4 - The monetary base in Ukraine in September grew by 5.9%, to UAH127.7 billion, while monetary stock expanded by 6%, to UAH348.7 billion, the National Bank of Ukraine reported.

KIEV, Oct. 4 ??“ Creative, a part of Kirovohrad-based Creative Industrial Group, and Russia's Protein Production, on Oct. 5 will start building a soybean processing plant in Kirovohrad region with a production capacity of 100,000 tons per year, in which they would own 51% and 49% stakes respectively.

KIEV, Oct. 4 - Bank Austria Creditanstalt has been granted permission to purchase a 12.8% stake in Ukraine's Megabank, the Kharkiv-based bank said in a release on its website.

KIEV, Oct. 4 ??“ The increase in the price of gas is stimulating the introduction of energy saving technologies, according to Yevhen Bakulin, the director general of UkrGazVydobuvannya, Ukraine's large gas producer.

KIEV, Oct. 4 ??“ The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is considering issuing a $150 million credit to EkoEnergia, a company founded by Donetsk-based Industrial Union of Donbas and Alchevsk Metallurgical Mill in Luhansk region, to purchase co-generation equipment as a part of the mill's reconstruction.

KIEV, Oct. 4 - The Ukrainian government and major oil companies on Wednesday agreed to lower gasoline and diesel fuel prices throughout Ukraine within the next 10 days, the government??™s press service reported.

KIEV, Oct. 4 - Vanco Energy Company, a U.S. oil firm that won a tender for exploration of a Black Sea offshore oil field in Ukraine, will next week submit a revised production sharing agreement, a government source said.

KIEV, Oct. 4 - Ukraine will next year be importing natural gas from Central Asia, not from Russia, and all supplies will be handled by RosUkrEnergo, Energy and Fuel Minister Yuriy Boyko said.

KIEV, Oct. 4 ??“ Coca-Cola Co., the world??™s largest soft drink maker, said Tuesday it was creating a separate division to combine markets in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, a move reflecting the region??™s growing importance.