KIEV, June 27 – The National Bank of Ukraine is introducing rules for using the hryvnia in foreign economic operations.

The rules are stipulated in NBU resolution No. 209 of May 28, 2012 registered in the Justice Ministry on June 12.

KIEV, June 27 – The Energy and Coal Industry Ministry's plans for reviving Ukrainian oil refining will be ineffective, the Finance Ministry and Economic Development and Trade Ministry have said.

MOSCOW, July 1 – Russia has lifted almost all the restrictions on poultry imports from Ukraine starting from July 1, Rosselkhoznadzor, the agricultural watchdog, told Interfax.

However, only separate Ukrainian companies will be allowed to bring their products to Russia.

KIEV, July 1 - Ukraine’s largest steel and mining group Metinvest will acquire a 75% stake in Illich Steel, the No. 2 steelmaker, to create a national steel champion that will compete with global majors.

KIEV, June 29 – The Ukrainian government has distributed UAH 2.9 billion from the stabilization fund of the national budget to cheapen credits issued to farmers and finance investment projects and programs in the agricultural sector.

KIEV, June 29 – The state committee for nuclear regulation in Ukraine has said that the completion of construction of reactor three and reactor four of Khmelnytsky nuclear power plant is not safe, according to the Dzerkalo Tyzhnia (Mirror Weekly) newspaper.

KIEV, June 29 – Kherson engineering plant (formerly Kherson Combines) expects to sign a contract on supply of 300 Skif combines to Iran in 2011, Oleksandr Oliynyk, the company's chairman, told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, June 29 – The Ukrainian Environmental Protection Ministry has suspended licenses of Britain's Regal Petroleum plc on development of oil and gas fields in Ukraine, Environmental Protection Minister Viktor Boyko said at a press conference on Tuesday.

KIEV, July 1 – The Ukrainian cabinet is studying the merger of banks which became under control of the government in 2009 after going under.

"As for Bank Kiev, the most logical development of the bank is to merge with one of the two recapitalized banks: Ukrgasbank or Rodovid Bank," Deputy Prime Minister Serhiy Tyhypko, a former National Bank of Ukraine governor, said in an interview with the Kommersant-Ukraine newspaper.

KIEV, July 1 – The incomes of 7,423 Ukrainian citizens in 2008 exceeded UAH1 million, which is 400 persons up year-over-year, deputy State Tax Administration Chairman Serhiy Lekar, said on Tuesday, referring prieliminary results of the individuals' income declaration campaign.