KIEV, Nov. 1 – Ukraine's Antimonopoly Committee has demanded the collection of UAH 172 billion from Russia's Gazprom, including the fine and penalty cost for non-payment of the fine in the due time.

KIEV, Nov. 1 – Kiev's district administrative court has banned the Ukrainian government from making a decision to transfer a stake in the project to develop the Yuzivska field (Kharkiv and Donetsk regions) to Yuzgaz B. V. (the Netherlands) as a safeguard measures under a claim of a nongovernmental organization, Nadra Yuzivska LLC Director Viktor Nazarkevych said at a press conference in Kiev on Tuesday.

KIEV, Oct. 31 – Ukraine’s government amended conditions of import operations without importing goods to stop ways of taking foreign currency abroad via pseudo import operations.

KIEV, Nov. 1 – Ukraine’s economy will expand a modest 1.5% on the year in 2012 amid cooling business activity and weakening external demand, Russia’s Sberbank Investment Research reported Thursday.

KIEV, Nov. 1 - ArcelorMittal Kryviy Rih, the largest mining and metal company in Ukraine, is one of the most injury-risky companies in the region, according to report by Prosecutor General’s Office in Dnipropetrovsk.

KIEV, Nov. 1 – Russia's TVEL has paid $10 million to buy a new share issue in the Russian-Ukrainian joint venture that will produce nuclear fuel in Ukraine, the company reported Thursday.

KIEV, Nov. 1 – Ukraine will import about 1 million cubic meters of natural gas a day supplied by Germany’s RWE in November-December, a Naftogaz Ukrayiny official told Argus Media agency.

The gas, which represents an alternative to Russian natural gas supplies, will be delivered from Poland via Drozdovychi through one of the gas pipelines linking the two countries.

SIMFEROPOL, Oct. 31 – Dmytro Firtash, co-owner of Crimea Titan (Armiansk, Crimea), plans to invest around $220-$250 million to construct a third plant for titanium dioxide production.

KIEV, Oct. 31 – Several thousand entrepreneurs and representatives of about 250 civil society organizations from all over Ukraine are to participate in a protest outside the Parliament building on November 3, according to Andriy Panaetov, chief of the staff of the Forward! Rally.

KIEV, Oct. 31 – Ukraine intends to become an associated member of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the organization which operates Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzelrand.