KIEV, Jan. 26 - Poltava Mining and Processing Plant (Poltava GOK, Komsomolsk, Poltava region), controlled by British Ferrexpo Plc, in 2015 exported 11.494 million tons of pellets to Europe and the Middle East, as well as Japan and China, retaining the first place in terms of production and exports of these goods among similar enterprises in the CIS countries.

KIEV, Jan. 28 – The State Property Fund has put state concern Ukrtorf, state enterprise Kryvy Rih combined heat and power plant (CHP), state enterprise Severodonetsk CHP and 26 coalmines and coal producers on the list of facilities that are to be prepared for privatization in 2016.

KIEV, Jan. 28 – The State Enforcement Service has arrested over 600 Ukrnafta accounts held in PrivatBank (Dnipropetrovsk) to collect a debt of over UAH 4 million in favor of Interbusinessconsult LLC.

KIEV, Jan. 29 - Ukraine may attract new borrowings to make payments in February on its external obligations during the current negotiations with the International Monetary Fund, postponing "painful" concessions for the public in talks with the IMF until this spring, according to Concorde Capital experts.

KIEV, Jan. 30 – The Energy and Coal Industry Ministry plans that within one month the extraction of shale gas by Chevron on the Oleske field will be agreed with the local authorities and explanations will be presented to the public, Minister Eduard Stavytsky said.

KIEV, Jan. 30 – The possibility of creating a State Development Bank on the basis of an operating financial institution has not been discussed by the government, Economic Development and Trade Minister Ihor Prasolov said.

MOSCOW, Jan. 31 - Russian State Nuclear Energy Company Rosatom expects to start building two power units at Ukraine's Khmelnytsky Nuclear Power Plant in 2014.

KIEV, Jan. 31 – Ukraine's GDP in the fourth quarter of 2012 dropped by 2.7% compared to the fourth quarter of 2011, whereas in the third quarter it decreased by 1.2%, according to the State Statistics Service.

According to the service, given the GDP growth in the first and second quarters by 2% and 3%, respectively, the country's economy for 2012 grew by 0.2%.

KIEV, Jan. 30 – The debt of the Ukrainian population for housing and utility services grew by 1.4% in December compared to November and amounted to UAH 11.978 billion, the State Statistics Service has said.

KIEV, Jan. 30 - A group of MPs has proposed the creation of a special regime of taxation for IT companies to ensure there are the proper economic conditions for their development.

Relevant draft law No. 9744 on amending the Tax Code of Ukraine regarding a special taxation regime for IT companies, dated January 23, has been posted on the Parliament Web site.