KIEV, Sept. 30 – The negative economic effect from stopping Ukraine International Airlines (UIA, Kiev) flights between Ukraine and Russia would be around $10 million, the airline said.

KIEV, Oct. 1 – A tender to buy natural gas by Naftogaz Ukrainy in Europe on the western border of Ukraine using a three-year revolving loan of $300 million issued by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has aroused the large interest of potential sellers, Deputy Finance Minister Artem Shevalev said.

KIEV, Oct. 1– Top managers of Ukrtransgaz and representatives of financial institutions on September 29 and September 30 held negotiations on the modernization of the Urengoi-Pomary-Uzhgorod gas pipeline.

KIEV, Sept. 30 – A full-scale breakup of Ukraine's economic ties with the CIS Member States, the Customs Union, and first of all, Russia, if Kiev signs the agreement on a Free Trade Area with the European Union, is hardly probable, according to Ihor Burakovsky, chairman of the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting.

KIEV, Sept. 30 - Ukraine consumed 32.357 billion cubic meters of natural gas in the first eight months of 2013, 7.7% less than the same period last year, the Energy and Coal Industry Ministry said.

KIEV, Sept. 30 – Ukraine as of September 30 had sown 2.38 million hectares with winter grains, which is 29% of the target, according to the Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry.

KIEV, Oct. 1 – Ukraine's State Inspectorate for Protection of Consumer Rights starting July 1, 2014 will start monitoring the adherence of household electric appliances, household electric refrigerators and washing machines, to the technical regulations of energy labeling drawn up by Ukraine on the basis of the EU Directives.

KIEV, Oct. 1 – Odessa oil refinery, part of the VETEK Group, has finished startup work and has started producing and selling fuel, the group reported on Tuesday.

The company said that at present the main part of its production facilities is operating.

MOSCOW, Oct. 1 – The Russian sanitary service does not plan to introduce a ban on the sale of products made by Lipetsk factory belonging to the Ukrainian company Roshen in Russia.

KIEV, Sept. 28 – Kiev Economic Court of Appeals will consider on October 4 an appeal against a ruling of the Economic Court of Kiev obliging the Ukrainian government to pay the Russian Defense Ministry over UAH 3.1 billion (some $390 million) in debts of the corporation United Energy Systems of Ukraine (UESU).