KIEV, April 4 – Ukraine and Turkmenistan have agreed to start work on drafting a new agreement on long-term trade and economic cooperation, Ukrainian First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economic Development and Trade Andriy Kliuyev said.

KIEV, April 4 ??“ Ukrtransgaz, the operator of Ukraine's gas transportation system, is to store about 31 billion cubic meters of natural gas into underground gas storage, the head of the company's board of directors, Yaroslav Marchuk, said.

KIEV, April 4 ??“ TNK-BP, the largest gasoline retailer in Ukraine, is interested in transporting fuels via Ukraine's fuel pipelines, company President Serhiy Lyzunov said.

KIEV, April 4 - Fitch Ratings has affirmed Ukrsotsbank's Issuer Default and Support ratings at 'B-' (B minus) and '5' respectively, and removed them from Rating Watch Positive ("RWP"), Fitch reported on its Web site.

KIEV, April 4 ??“ Ukraine's business leaders and representatives of NGO's uniting entrepreneurs have demanded that the authorities abandon destructive political disputes and start a constructive large-scale dialogue.

FRANKFURT, April 5 - Raiffeisen International Bank AG, the biggest foreign lender in the former Soviet Union, said it plans to sell its Ukraine operations, Bloomberg reported Wednesday.

MOSCOW, April 4 - Ukrainian Radiosystems (URS), a subsidiary of Russia??™s second largest mobile operator VimpelCom started advertising campaign

KIEV, April 4 ??“ UkrNafta, Ukraine??™s largest crude oil producer, plans to expand in gas processing sector and build more LPG facilities this year, a company spokesman said Tuesday

KIEV, April 1, - Russia's EUROCEMENT Group has purchased the Kramatorsk Pushka Cement and Roofing Slate Mill (Donetsk region), which was incorporated into the Inteco Company (Russia).

MYKOLAIV, April 4 ??“ Russian Aluminum Ltd. (RusAl) may construct an aluminum plant in Ukraine if it can get supplies of cheap electricity, of Aluminum of Ukraine Ltd. Director General Ivan Sakhan said during a press conference on the fifth anniversary of RusAl in Mykolayiv.