KIEV, March 27 – The National Bank of Ukraine has facilitated the rules for registering agreements on taking credits or loans in foreign currency from nonresidents by residents, the central bank has reported on its website.

KIEV, March 27 – The National Commission for Securities and the Stock Market of Ukraine intends to improve the mechanism for allowing securities of foreign issuers to enter the Ukrainian stock market, the regulator announced.

KIEV, March 27 – Accusations by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) of unlawful interference in operation of the automated systems and computer networks of the Justice Ministry, the State Fiscal Service and the State Court Administration of Ukraine and the illegal sale of collected data by online service YouControl are groundless, YouControl attorney Danylo Hloba said.

KIEV, March 27 - Russia's biggest bank Sberbank is selling its subsidiary in Ukraine to a consortium of investors, which include Norvik Bank (Latvia) and a Belarussian private company, Sberbank said in a statement on Monday, Reuters reported.

KIEV, March 25 - Ukraine and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development on Monday signed a loan agreement worth EUR 300 million as part of a comprehensive program to improve the safety of reactors at Ukrainian nuclear power plants.

KIEV, March 25 – The Ukrainian government expects the country's GDP to grow 2.5%-3.4% in 2013 and 3.4% in 2014 as a result of the implementation of the State Economic Stimulation Program for 2013-2014, which the cabinet approved by its resolution on February 27 and published on its Web site on March 25.

KIEV, March 26 – The Ukrainian government has decided effective May 1 to introduce new excise labels on alcohol and tobacco and increase their price by 2.6 times.

KIEV, March 26 – The Cyprus crisis has not affected the inflow of foreign investment to Ukraine, according to Oleksandr Arseniuk, the deputy director of the general department for monetary and credit policy at the National Bank of Ukraine.

KIEV, March 27 - The National Commission for Communications Regulation plans by the end of 2013 to agree with the Defense Ministry on conducting conversion of radio frequency bands suitable for the introduction of 3G and 4G communications standards, NCCR head Petro Yatsuk said during the presentation of a report on the regulator's operations in 2012.

KIEV, March 27 - Ukrainian nuclear power plants lack modern fire safety equipment and the government must take immediate action to resolve the problem, Emergency Situations Minister Viktor Baloha said Tuesday.