KIEV, Feb. 27 - Polish international pipeline enterprise Sarmatia Ltd. on Tuesday announced a tender to select a company which will carry out the feasibility study for the European-Asian oil transportation corridor project, UkrTransNafta reported.

KIEV, Feb. 27 - Mostobud and Sun Land Group Corp. of the United States signed a $7 billion agreement Tuesday on construction of bridges in Ukraine.

KIEV, Feb. 27 – The Economy Ministry expects that inflation in February will be much lower than in January, according to First Deputy Minister Anatoliy Maksiuta.

He told the press on Tuesday that the government was continuing to work on anti-inflation measures.

KIEV, Feb. 27 - The government on Wednesday indefinitely postponed a bill that would introduce licensing for traders selling gasoline and diesel fuel through retail and wholesale chains.

KIEV, Feb. 27 - Ukraine's exports of vodka and other alcoholic beverages fell by 24% to 8.15 million deciliters worth $192 million last year, an industry association reported.

KIEV, Feb. 27 ??“ Ukrsotsbank, Ukraine??™s No. 6 bank by assets, raised $400 million, more than expected, through an issue of three-year Eurobonds as investors had rushed to buy the paper, the bank reported.

KIEV, Feb. 27 ??“ Slovakia is ready to increase imports of electricity from Ukraine by four times, to 2 billion kWh per year, Deputy Fuel and Energy Minister Volodymyr Luchnikov said after the meeting of the premiers of Ukraine and Slovakia held in Kiev on Monday.

KIEV, Feb. 27 ??“ IKEA Group, a fast growing low-price Swedish furniture company, postponed for almost a year opening of a $300 mln shopping and entertainment complex in Kiev due to a dispute with local authorities.

KIEV, Feb. 27 ??“ Ukraine??™s Antimonopoly Committee allowed Skinest Finants of Estonia to buy more than 25% of stocks in Kriukivsky railway car building plant, the AMC press service reported on Friday.

KIEV, Feb. 24 ??“ The money received from the return to collecting 20% value-added tax on the import of crude oil in Ukraine starting March 1 must be channeled for the creation of a stable three-month reserve fund of petroleum products, Ihor Yeremeev, member of the parliamentary committee for the fuel and energy complex, said Thursday.