KIEV, Nov. 1 – The Finance Ministry has proposed to protect nationalized banks from their former owners during the sale of the state-run credit and financial institutions.

KIEV, Nov. 1 – Ukraine's proposed land market bill, which includes lifting a moratorium on the sale of farmland, raises some concerns at the World Bank, Martin Raiser, World Bank Director for Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova, wrote in an opinion column published in the Mirror Weekly Ukraine.

KIEV, Nov. 1 – Ukraine in 2011-2012 is planning to introduce trading with coal on exchanges, which will support the realization of a market mechanism for price formation based on a realistic balance of coal demand and supply.

FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Oct. 29 - Moody's Investors Service has assigned a long-term rating of B2 to the foreign currency debt issued by the Ukrainian state enterprise in charge of providing infrastructure to the Euro 2012 championships, citing “very strong support from the Ukrainian government.”

KIEV, Oct. 30 – The deficit of Ukraine's national budget in January-September came to UAH 24.037 billion, while the deficit of the consolidated budget reached UAH 24.568 billion.

The Finance Ministry says that in September the deficit of the national budget soared by 46%, or UAH 7.61 billion, while the deficit of the consolidated budget grew by 47% or UAH 7.872 billion.

KIEV, Oct. 30 – The European Business Association, jointly with the heads of pharmaceutical companies, have asked President Viktor Yushchenko to veto a law on the introduction of a moratorium on the increase of prices of medicine.

KIEV, Oct. 30 - Ukraine’s Odessa-Brody oil pipeline resumed full shipments of Russian crude oil after emergency crews repaired a problem that had been causing a leakage, a spokesman at UkrTransNafta said Friday.

KIEV, Oct. 30 - HeidelbergCement Group in Ukraine plans to launch two mixed concrete plants in Luhansk and Odessa in Q1 2008, Director General of Kryvbass Beton Oleksandr Melnyk told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Oct. 31 - An international group of experts has carried out a regular inspection of an experimental batch of nuclear fuel produced by U.S.-based Westinghouse, which has been carrying out checks of the core of the Yuzhnoukrainsk nuclear plant's third reactor since August 2005, said EnergoAtom, the operator of Ukraine's nuclear power plants, on Wednesday.

KIEV, Nov. 1 - The Italian aviation authority's ban on flights of Kiev-based Ukrainian International Airlines to Rome and Milan are a response to Ukraine's restrictions on Italian carrier AlItalia, according to the State Aviation Administration of Ukraine.