KIEV, Dec. 26 ??“ UkrSibbank has placed five-year Eurobonds worth $500 million, and demand on bonds of this bank exceeded supply by more than two times, the bank said on Monday.

KIEV, Dec. 26 ??“ Large Ukrainian sparkling wine producer Artyomovsk Winery (Donetsk region) has stopped Sovetskoye sparkling wine production.

KIEV, Dec. 26 -- The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) will lend $6.8 million to Shvydko-Ukraine, Ukraine's second-largest fast food restaurant chain, after McDonald's.

KIEV, Dec. 23 ??“ The vertically integrated oil company (VIOC) established by a September decree by President Leonid Kuchma will be incorporated in the structure of the state-owned Naftogaz Ukrayiny and be set up as a separate subdivision with state shareholdings in UkrTatNafta (Poltava region) and Galychyna oil refining complex (Lviv region) being transferred to its statuary fund, said Deputy Prime Minister Andriy Kliuyev.

KIEV, Dec. 23 ??“ UkrNafta, Ukraine's largest oil producer, on Dec. 15 put a renovated 18.7-km long oil pipeline from Talalayivka oil fields to the Hnidyntsi gas processing plant into operation, the company reported on Thursday, according to Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Dec. 23 ??“ Parliament voted overwhelmingly Thursday to approve a 2005 budget that reduces the gap between revenue and spending compared with the draft that had been previously proposed by the government.

KYIV, Nov 23 – The Ukrainian Red Cross Society (URCS) plans to build several more modular towns for internally displaced persons (IDPs), General Director of the National Committee of the Ukrainian Red Cross Society Maksym Dotsenko said at a press conference on Wednesday during the opening of the town in Chernihiv.

KYIV, Nov 23 – Recognition of craft distillate producers at the legislative level will make it possible to double the number of legal producers by 2030, attract EUR 7 million in investment in the industry, and create about a thousand jobs, chairperson of the Association of Craft Distillers Kateryna Kamysheva said at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine on Thursday.

KYIV, Nov 22 – One day of downtime due to a strike of Polish carriers at Ukrainian-Polish border crossing points (BCPs) costs an exporting company UAH 1 million, the European Business Association (EBA) reported based on the results of an express survey of 55 participating companies.

KYIV, Nov 22 – Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Rostyslav Shurma, speaking at the Rebuild Ukraine conference in Toronto (Canada), spoke about the conditions for restoring the Ukrainian economy.