KIEV, Nov. 30 - Ukraine’s former Ambassador to Washington, D.C. Oleh Shamshur has joined The PBN Company as a Senior Counselor for Investment and Public Affairs, the company reported Tuesday.

KIEV, Nov. 29 – The average forecast by experts for Ukraine's GDP growth in 2011 was downgraded in November to 4.6% from 4.8% in July, according to a posting on the Economy Ministry's Web site.

KIEV, Nov. 30 – If duties on imported fuel are introduced, there would be unfair conditions in the refueling business on the Ukrainian market and retail prices of light fuel would jump, according to the companies that own large filling stations chains.

KIEV, Nov. 30 - Ukraine's Naftogaz Ukrayiny and Russia's Gazprom have signed supplement No. 1 to a gas trade contract which records the changes in the volume of gas imports by Naftogaz Ukrayiny in 2009 and confirms the supply volume for 2010, Naftogaz Ukrayiny CEO Oleh Dubyna said.

KIEV, Nov. 30 – Kiev-based Smart-holding plans to challenge in court the results of the privatization of OJSC Kryvorizhstal (Dnipropetrovsk region), the largest mining and metals company in Ukraine, a 93.02% stake in which was bought by Mittal Steel Germany at an open tender held on October 24, 2005.

KIEV, Nov. 30 – The National Bank of Ukraine would like to receive funds from a tranche of a credit from the International Monetary Fund to place in its reserves in order to support the balance of payments, said Serhiy Kruhlyk, the director of the NBU's department for economic liaisons.

KIEV, Nov. 27 – The National Communications Regulatory Commission unanimously decided on Friday to suspend its upcoming 3G license tender.

The commission received instructions from the Public Prosecutor General's Office to cancel the 3G license tender scheduled for Nov. 27, until the Defense Ministry, the Transport and Communications Ministry, and Public Prosecutor General's Office carry out the conversion of the radiofrequency (RF) bands in keeping with the RF resource law and government resolutions in effect.

KIEV, Nov. 27 – The National Environmental Investment Agency of Ukraine and the Ministry of the Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs of Spain will sign a contract on the purchase and sale of three million carbon emission rights, also known as assigned amount units (AAU), under the Kyoto Protocol.

KIEV, Nov. 27 - Ukraine expects to borrow $12.5 billion from international financial organizations for development projects in 2009-2012, Anna Bilokolos, deputy director of the Economy Ministry's Department for Cooperation with International Financial Organizations, said at an economic forum on the financial potential of Ukrainian cities.

KIEV, Nov. 30 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny Chairman Oleh Dubyna said that the claims of Centragas Beteiligungs Holding AG (Vienna) - the owner of a 50% stake in Switzerland-registered RosUkrEnergo (RUE) - against Ukraine regarding 11 billion cubic meters of gas, which was earlier expropriated from RUE by Naftogaz Ukrayiny, are illogical.