KIEV, Jan. 30 – A large energy company representing one of the countries neighboring Ukraine has made complaints against Ukraine to the Energy Community Secretariat, Energy Community Secretariat Director Slavtcho Neykov told reporters in Kiev last week.

KIEV, Jan. 30 – Poland believes that now there is no purpose in prolonging the Odessa-Brody oil pipeline to Plock, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov told Facebook users on January 27.

"We have several times proposed to our Polish partners [to finish the pipeline], although now they do not believe that this is an appropriate thing for them," he said.

DAVOS, Jan. 31 – The interest rates on the international crediting market could start growing in H2, so it is important that the Ukrainian government quickly and in an organized manner borrow the $4.5 billion planned in the budget for borrowing on the foreign market, former Ihor Mitiukov, Ukrainian Finance Minister and Director General of the Financial Policy Institute of Ukraine.

DAVOS, Jan. 31 – Interpipe Pipe and Wheel Company plans to regain access to external financing soon thanks to the completion of its debt restructuring, which would allow the company to accelerate the launch of a project to build the Dniprostal electrometallurgic production facility (Dnipropetrovsk), according to Hennadiy Hazin, EastOne CEO and president.

IVANO-FRANKIVSK, Jan. 31 – A hexachlorobenzene reprocessing plant could be built in Kalush, Ivano-Frankivsk region.

KIEV, Jan. 29 – The French daily newspaper Le Figaro on Friday issued a retraction of a previously published false report regarding Rinat Akhmetov, a Ukrainian businessman and political leader, and apologized to him for publishing untrue information, according to a statement released by the Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP law firm.

KIEV, Jan. 28 – The Ukrainian national budget in 2009 saw a UAH 19.866 billion deficit, which is 37% less than the target (UAH 31.563 billion), according to the Finance Ministry.

The ministry says that in January-December 2009 the consolidated budget (national and local budgets) posted a UAH 21.606.9 billion deficit.

IVANO-FRANKIVSK, Jan. 29 – A critical situation is seen at the sewage treatment plants of CJSC Lukor (Kalush, Ivano-Frankivsk region) - the only plant that treats sewage in Kalush, a company report says.

KIEV, Jan. 29 – EnergoAtom and China Guangdong Nuclear Power Co. (CGNPC) are planning on February 1-2 to sign a memorandum on mutual understanding, which will become the basis of cooperation between the companies, EnergoAtom's press service has reported.

KIEV, Jan. 29 – The realization of a project of Cypriot Vorskla Steel, which established a 100% subsidiary Vorskla Steel KFT (Hungary, both affiliated with Ukrainian owner of Ferrexpo mining company Kostiantyn Zhevaho) will take 7.5-8 years instead of five years as it was planned earlier, Zhevaho said in an interview with the Focus magazine.