KIEV, Sept. 30 – President Viktor Yanukovych has signed a law on the approval of a national targeted scientific and engineering space program for 2013-2017, which was passed by the parliament on September 5, according to the president's Web site.

KIEV, Sept. 30 – The minimum term of farmland leasing should be 12 years.

The requirement is stipulated in draft law No. 3316 on amendments to some Ukraine laws regarding the stable use of farmland, the authors of which are MPs Oleh Kulinich (the Party of Regions faction), Stepan Ivakhiv (not a member of any faction) and Valeriy Lunchenko (the Batkivschyna faction).

KIEV, Sept. 30 – LINIK (Lysychansk oil refinery, Luhansk region), which belongs to Russia's Rosneft, has started overhauls of its technological facilities, Luhansk Regional Administration reported after a meeting of Governor Volodymyr Prystiuk with the company's Director General Ihor Danchuk.

KIEV, Sept. 30 – The state is mulling the possibility of creating a venture capital fund to support projects in the IT area, Vladyslav Kaskiv, the head of the State Agency for Investment and Agency Projects, said in Kiev at a ribbon-cutting ceremony on the opening of BIONIC University.

KIEV, Sept. 27 - Nibulon agricultural enterprise, one of the largest producers and exporters of grain in Ukraine, is holding an open tender on the reconstruction of Liman shipyard (both based in Mykolaiv).

KIEV, Sept. 27 - Ukraine will start building a nuclear fuel factory in October, Alexander Ivanov, the chief representative of Russian nuclear fuel corporation TVEL in Ukraine, told reporters in Kiev.

KIEV, Sept. 27 – The government has included Boryspil International Airport on the list of state-run companies that are to be transferred to concession at tenders, the Infrastructure Ministry reported on Thursday.

KIEV, Sept. 28 – Ukrainian meat and dairy producers that are to have exports of their products to the markets of the Custom Union states restricted starting October 4 say they have yet to obtain official notification from Rosselkhoznadzor about the reasons for the restrictions.

KIEV, Sept. 28 - Ukraine’s only producer of uranium ore, Skhidniy HZK, plans to invest 500 million hryvnias, or $61.7 million, in development of Novokonstantynivske uranium deposit in 2013, a company official said Friday.

KIEV, Sept. 28 - UkrTransGaz, Ukraine’s state-owned shipper of natural gas which moves the bulk of Russian gas to Europe, is now also capable of importing gas in reverse mode from Europe, a company official said Friday.