MOSCOW, Nov. 1 – Russia's TVEL is in talks with Russian banks to raise funds to build a nuclear fuel plant in Ukraine, Vasily Konstantinov, the vice president for international activities and commerce at TVEL, told Ukrainian journalists in Moscow.

KIEV, Nov. 1 - Terminal F opened at Kiev’s Boryspil International Airport on the night of October 30 to October 31.

The first flight serviced at Terminal F was a Ukraine International Airlines (UIA, Kiev) flight to the popular Egyptian health resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, a correspondent from Interfax-Ukraine reported.

KIEV, Nov. 1 – Zaporizhia, Nikopol and Stakhanov ferroalloy plants in November are to start agreeing on volumes and prices of ferromanganese silicon supplies with U.S. consumers, the Ukrainian Association of Ferroalloy Producers reported.

KIEV, Nov. 1 – The recommendations of the International Monetary Fund on the draft Tax Code, which has been adopted at first reading by Parliament, will not settle the problem of the shadow economy in Ukraine, according to Natalia Korolevska, the head of the parliamentary committee for industrial and regulatory policy and entrepreneurship.

KIEV, Nov. 2 – Ukrainian Energy Service Company (Kiev, UkrESCO) has opened a 55,000 cubic meter per year glass foam plant on the basis of NVP Technology Ltd. in Shostka (Sumy region), reads a posting on the official Web site of the National Agency of Ukraine on Ensuring Efficient Energy Resources Management (NAER).

KIEV, Oct. 30 - Donetsk-based Gerc Investment and Construction Group plans in November to open a representative office in Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan.

"We decided to enter the [construction] market [in Iraq] at a strategic session of our holding. The representative office will be opened in November.

KIEV, Oct. 30 – If the price of oil on the international markets remains at around $80 per barrel until the end of 2009, next year the price of Russian natural gas for Ukraine will rise from $208.10 per thousand cubic meters in Q4 to $229.40 in Q1, 2010 and $335.10 in Q4, 2010, according to the Kiev-based Center for Energy Studies.

KIEV, Nov. 2 – Ukraine's GDP will fall by 16% in 2009 but will grow by 3% in 2010, the Fitch rating agency has forecast.

The agency said that the average annual inflation in Ukraine in 2009 would slow to 16% from 25.2% in 2008. In 2010, Fitch expects a slowdown in average annual inflation to 15%.

MOSCOW, Oct. 30 - Standard & Poor's Ratings Services has lowered its long-term corporate credit rating on Ukrainian steel producer Azovstal Iron and Steel Works to 'B' from 'B+', the ratings agency said in a statement on Thursday.

KIEV, Oct. 30 – The Ukrainian economy will start to recover after the crisis in the second half of 2009 and will return to the pace of 5-6% of economic growth from the middle of 2010, according to the National Bank of Ukraine and the Cabinet of Ministers.