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.

KIEV, Feb. 25 - Poltava ore mining and processing mill (Poltava region) is planning to invest over $100 million in 2005 into development of its current open-cast mine as well as new deposits, into upgrade of equipment and technologies at dressing and pelletizing plants and development of the enterprise's infrastructure, the company reported.

KIEV, Feb. 25 - Mykolaiv Alumina Works, the CIS??™ biggest alumina producer, is planning to increase its use of investments from $26 million in 2004 to $47 million in 2005, Yuriy Ovchynnikov, the enterprise's director general said in an interview with the Kiev Telegraph weekly newspaper.

KYIV, Jan 24 – A road map of the partner agreements with the German rail operator Deutsche Bahn AG will be signed on February 5, Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk said.

KYIV, Jan 24 – Qatari company QTerminals has won the competition for the Olvia seaport concession.

"The second concession tender has been completed. QTerminals from Qatar has won the concession tender in the port of Olvia. UAH 3.4 billion will be invested in the development of the port over five years," wrote Minister of Infrastructure Vladyslav Krykliy on Facebook.

KYIV, Jan 24 – The shareholders of VF Ukraine (provides mobile services under the Vodafone-Ukraine brand) agreed to raise raise up to $500 million from external sources in the near future for the implementation of its growth strategy.

KYIV, Jan 24 – Ukraine in 2018 increased electricity exports by 19.3% (999.4 million kWh) compared with 2017, to 6.166 billion kWh, the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry reported.

KYIV, Jan 25 – Unit 10 of the Prydniprovska thermal power plant (TPP) will be launched after its switch to long-flame coal on February 28, 2019.