KIEV, July 23 - About 250 companies of aircraft, missile space, defense and other sectors from almost 30 countries are expected to participate in the 7th international AVIASVIT-XXI aviation and space salon, which will be held from September 30 to October 4 at the Kiev-Antonov airfield in Hostomel (Kiev region), Leonid Zvarykin, a member of the exhibition organizational committee, has reported.

KIEV, July 23 - Ukraine is ready to find a compromise for financing from the International Monetary Fund, the National Bank of Ukraine said on its web site.

"The compulsory request (letter of intention) has been sent by the Ukrainian government and the NBU, addressed to the IMF's directorship.

Dnipropetrovsk, July 26 – Germany's Haase Energietechnik AG is to design a project on the production of gas from solid waste in Dniprodzerzhynsk (Dnipropetrovsk region), Dniprodzerzhynsk Mayor Yaroslav Korchevsky has said.

KIEV, July 26 – The interagency commission for international trade has instructed the Economy Ministry, jointly with other Ukrainian executive bodies, to hold talks with the competent bodies of exporting countries under an investigation into imports of refrigerators and freezers to Ukraine irrespective of their country of origin, which was started in May.

KIEV, July 24 – The National Bank of Ukraine reported that Ukraine's consolidated balance of payments deficit from January through June came to $7.288 billion, 11.1% up from January to May.

KIEV, June 23 – The National Bank of Ukraine could channel $2.8 billion by the beginning of September into supporting the hryvnia, said Valeriy Lytvytsky, head of the group of advisors to the NBU governor.

KIEV, July 24 – The National Bank of Ukraine has proposed to the Ukrainian cabinet to move Kiev-based Ukrprombank's liabilities to individuals to Kiev-based State Savings Bank of Ukraine (Oschadbank), has said.

KIEV, July 25 – The National Bank of Ukraine has allowed the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to sell foreign currency on the Ukrainian interbank forex market through Ukrainian banks and raise loans in the hryvnia for further lending in the Ukrainian national currency to residents.

KIEV, July 26 – Donetsk City council on Wednesday approved the decision of a tender commission that declared Kiev-based AeroSvit-Ukrainian Airlines the winner of a tender to select an investor to develop Donetsk-based Donbasaero municipal company, AeroSvit told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, July 26 – The nominal saturation of mobile communications in Ukraine by the end of 2007 will be 120% or 56 million sold SIM cards, and real saturation will reach 69% or 32 million subscribers, Russia's Euroset said in a preliminary study of the cell communications markets issued on Wednesday.