KIEV, Sept. 26 – Ukraine had threshed 38.4 million tons of grain as of September 26, which is 12.4% up on 2010, according to the Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry.

IVANO-FRANKIVSK, Sept. 26 – Ivano-Frankivsk region has announced an international competition for the best investment project for the Carpathian Mountains.

ALUSHTA, Sept. 27 – The Ukrainian stock market is too small to give the required investments to energy companies that are now under privatization, so it is likely that they will be listed on foreign stock exchanges, according to Yuriy Yakovlev, deputy head of the State Property Fund.

KIEV, Sept. 24 – Parliament has extended for two months the activities of its temporary commission investigating the Stockholm Arbitration Tribunal's ruling, the allegations of corrupt activities against the Swiss-registered gas trader RosUkrEnergo AG, the involvement of public officials into this case, and the arrest of the former chief of the State Customs Service, Anatoliy Makarenko.

KIEV, Sept. 24 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is sticking to its plans to invest about EUR 1 billion in Ukraine in 2010, Vassili Lelakis, the head of the representatives of the EBRD Board in the delegation, said at a briefing on Friday following the delegation's work in Ukraine this week.

KIEV, Sept. 27 – Ukraine would have its balance of payments the closest to the equilibrium in 2010, which would happen for the first time over several years, according to Valeriy Lytvytsky, the head of the group of advisers to the National Bank of Ukraine governor.

KIEV, Sept. 24 – The Ukrainian cabinet is to restructure a debt of Zaporizhia Titanium Magnesium Plant state company for consumed electricity for two years.

Industry Minister Volodymyr Novitsky told the press that the decision was made at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.

He did not disclose the sum of the debt, but said that it was rather large.

VILNIUS, Sept. 24 – Ukraine will be able to supply electricity through Belarus to Lithuania, which is facing shortage in power supplies after the closure of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant, President Viktor Yushchenko said.

KIEV, Sept. 24 – Western investors may return to the Ukrainian real estate market in October or November, according to Mykola Tolmachev, CEO of Kiev-based T.M.M. construction firm.

"If in February, foreign investors did not hold any talks on investments in Ukraine, today, talking with various financial institutions, I feel that it is time for the arrival of foreign investors.

KIEV, Sept. 25 - National energy company Ukrenergo has started consultations with Hungary's Mavir, Romania's Transellectirica and Slovakia's SEPS operators on the signing of an agreement on electricity carrying capacity with the states, said Ukrenergo's head, Kostiantyn Uschakovsky.