SARNY, May 29 - Naftogaz Ukrayiny is continuing to implement a program for the connection of settlements throughout the country to the gas supply network, completing the construction of an underwater gas pipeline to two villages in Rivne region.

KIEV, May 29 – The minimum size of a special royalty payment to the national budget to be made by an investor within 10 days after signing a production sharing agreement (PSA) on hydrocarbons that will be produced at the Skifske and Foroske sections of the Black Sea deep-sea shelf is set at UAH 2.4 billion for each of them.

KIEV, May 29 - Ukrainian banks have extended their hours and carried out certain other measures to get ready for Ukraine's holding the Euro 2012 European Football Championship, the head of the board of the Independent Association of Ukrainian Banks (IAUB), Borys Tymonkin, said at a press conference in Kiev on Tuesday.

KIEV, May 29 – The Finance Ministry has sold 12-, 24- and 36-month government domestic loan bonds in foreign currency worth $535 million at primary auctions on Tuesday, a record high sum since the bonds have been traded.

KIEV, May 29 - The National Bank of Ukraine has strengthened monitoring of the subsidiaries of Greek banks in Ukraine, despite the fact that the financial condition of these financial institutions are not cause for concern at present, the NBU said.

SELETS (Rivne region), May 29 - In its negotiations with Russian gas major Gazprom, Ukraine is not seeking a discounted gas price, but a revision of the existing gas contracts, Yevhen Bakulin, head of Ukraine's national oil and gas company Naftogaz Ukrayiny, told journalists in Rivne region on Tuesday.

DNIPROPETROVSK, May 30 – Deputies of Dnipropetrovsk City Council at a regular session have approved a project to complete subway construction in the city and agreed to the attraction of loan funds from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the European Investment Bank for this purpose, Dnipropetrovsk Mayor Ivan Kulychenko has told reporters.

ZHVANETS (Khmelnytsky region), May 31 – The Ukrainian cabinet and Naftogaz Ukrayiny are considering some options aimed at stabilizing prices of fuel in Ukraine, Naftogaz Chairman Yevhen Bakulin said.

KIEV, May 31 – Germany's Commerzbank Group is reported to be in talks with Vadim Novinsky on the sale of its subsidiary, Kiev-based Forum Bank.

KIEV, May 31 – An accident at Feodosiya’s Morye shipyard on May 27 when a overhead traveling crane collapsed and two people were killed, should not affect the successful completion of an important contract in the military-technical sphere with China, a high-ranking official in the defense complex told Interfax Ukraine.