KIEV, Feb. 1 – The American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine has called on Parliament to cancel a law on licensing imports of medicine (No. 5038-UI), which will take effect from March 1.

KIEV, Feb. 1 – Ukraine's state-owned arms exporter Ukrspecexport is not commenting on media reports about the involvement of the company's high-ranking employees in a corruption scandal in Kazakhstan.

KIEV, Feb. 1 – The Cabinet of Ministers has approved a feasibility study for the construction of a steam-gas power plant in Scholkine (Crimea) worth UAH 15,385,782,000 (around $1.9 billion).

KIEV, Feb. 1 – Oleksandr Popov, head of Kiev City State Administration (KCSA) does not deny that most power in the capital has been handed over to him, though he is only an official appointed by the state authorities, and not the elected mayor of Kiev.

KIEV, Feb. 1 – Dnipropetrovsk-based Dniproavia airline, a member of the Ukrainian Aviation Group, has agreed with Brazil's Empresa Brasileira de Aeronautica (Embraer), an aircraft building concern, on the supply of 10 Embraer 190s, with the possibility to expand the contract to another five aircraft.

KIEV, Feb. 1 – The supply of Azerbaijani oil to Drohobych oil refinery (OJSC Halychyna, Lviv region) and Nadvirna oil refinery (Ivano-Frankivsk region) could start in April, Deputy Energy and Coal Industry Minister Ihor Kiriushin told journalists in Kiev.

KIEV, Feb. 1 – Emergencies Minister Viktor Baloha has said that Ukraine's Emergencies Ministry and the Interior Ministry may merge after the optimization of the structure of the Emergencies Ministry.

KIEV, Feb. 3 – Ukrainian is to allocate land plots in Donetsk, Luhansk and Dnipropetrovsk regions to extract methane to Russian-British TNK-BP Company, First Deputy Prime Minister Andriy Kliuyev said at a press conference in Kiev on Wednesday.

KIEV, Feb. 3 – Ukraine expects that the privatization of heat generating companies will start in the second quarter of 2011, First Vice Premier and Economic Development and Trade Minister Andriy Kliuyev said at a press conference in Kiev on Wednesday.

KIEV, Feb. 3 - Ukraine suspended exports of power to Belarus in January following a disagreement over prices, Deputy Prime Minister Andriy Kliuyev said.