KIEV, April 27 – The cost of an 'Easter basket' in 2016 will be some UAH 349, which is UAH 20 more than last year, Agrarian Economics Institute Director Yuriy Lupenko said.

KIEV, April 24 – The Ukrainian government has made the procedure for employing foreigners clearer and more transparent, Tetiana Lezhukh, senior partner of Lezhukh, Siamina and Partners law firm, said.

KIEV, April 27 – Poland is ready to support the configuration change procedure at Burshtyn Energy Island through the disconnection of one or three units of the Burshtyn thermal power plant and their conversion to operate as part of the Ukrainian power grid, the National Energy Company Ukrenergo reported.

KIEV, April 27 - The total sum of wage arrears in Ukraine in March 2015 saw a 2.7% rise, the State Statistics Service reported.

According to the service, wage arrears on April 1, 2015 amounted to UAH 1.617 billion, or 5% of the monthly wage fund for March, while as of early 2015 it was 22.5%.

KIEV, April 24 – Zuyivska thermal power plant (TPP) of DTEK Vostokenergo LLC has started the reconstruction of power unit No. 3 worth UAH 467.9 million, the press service of DTEK reported.

KIEV, April 24 – Wind Power LLC, part of the largest private energy holding DTEK, has commissioned 35 wind turbines of the second phase of Botiyeve wind power station (Zaporizhia region), boosting its capacity to 200 MW, the press service of DTEK has reported.

KIEV, April 25 – Ukraine will use borrowing from the U.S., international financial institutions and capital markets to pay at least $9 billion in debts, First Deputy Finance Minister Anatoliy Miarkovsky said.

KIEV, April 25 – Ukrlandfarming, the largest owner of farming land in Ukraine, revised downwards its investment plans for 2014 due to the unstable political and economic situation in the country.

KIEV, April 26 – Stirol (Horlivka, Donetsk region) plans to invest around UAH 600 million in production development in 2011, Stirol Chairman Serhiy Pavliuchuk said.

"Total investment in 2011 will reach some UAH 600 million," reads a company report, referring to Pavliuchuk.

KIEV, April 27 – The Ukrainian Justice Ministry plans to hire U.S. law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP to protect Ukraine's interests in the Massachusetts District Court in a case on a $272.5 million claim by U.S. Universal Trading & Investment Co., Inc and Foundation Honesty International, Inc. against the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office and Justice Ministry.