KIEV, Aug. 4 - Vitmark-Ukraine (the Jaffa, Nash Sik and Prosto Frukty brands) expects that juice production will considerably fall due to the decision of the Russian consumer protection watchdog Rospobtrebnadzor to ban imports of juice from Ukraine to Russia.

MOSCOW, Aug. 4 - Ukraine is planning to impose sanctions in the coming days against companies with Russian capital that operate in the country, Russian newspaper Kommersant reported on Monday, citing a Ukrainian government source.

KIEV, Aug. 1 - Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Council on August 20 will make a final decision on the issue of finalizing a production sharing agreement with U.S. oil company Chevron for the Oleska deposit (Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk regions), Volodymyr Ihnaschenko, adviser to the minister of Ecology and Natural Resources, told reporters on Thursday.

KIEV, Aug. 1 – The government has approved a bill drawn up by the Economic Development and Trade Ministry on the possibility of including independent directors on the governing bodies of companies in which the state holds shares.

KIEV, Aug. 1 – At present, there is no reason to raise tariffs for housing and utility services for households, Ukraine's Regional Development, Construction and Housing and Utilities Minister Hennadiy Temnyk said.

KHARKIV, Aug. 2 – Shell's drilling of the Biliayivska-400 well (the village of Vesele, Pervomaisk district, Kharkiv region) is not having a negative impact on the environment, the company's press service in Kharkiv and Donetsk regions said, referring to the results of a study of environmental indicators.

KIEV, Aug. 2 – Nineteen Ukrainian sailors from the Etel ship, who were captured by Libyans in Benghazi on July 17, will be freed after Ukraine returns 650 cars, which were paid for but not delivered to the customer, the Vesti newspaper wrote on Friday.

ALMATY/KIEV, Aug. 2 – The sanitary and epidemiological supervision committee of the Health Ministry of Kazakhstan has issued an order to inspect the products of Roshen confectionary corporation imported to Kazakhstan, Committee Chairman Zhandarbek Bekshin told Interfax-Kazakhstan.

KIEV, Aug. 2 - Ukrainian petrochemical plant LLC Karpatnaftokhim will not be able to resume operations on August 1 as its launch has been pushed back to a later date, the Capital newspaper reported, citing Sergei Chmykhalov, the representative of Russian oil company Lukoil in Ukraine.

MOSCOW, Aug. 4 – Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan are to sign an international agreement by October 1 on the volume of pipe supplied from Ukraine duty-free.

Decision No. 702 has been posted on the Customs Union's Web site.