MOSCOW, May 26 - The Central Bank of Russia has ordered the Crimean affiliates of nine Ukrainian banks to cease operations, the Central Bank said in a press release.

KIEV, May 24 - The directorate for construction and management of the Air Express national project and other infrastructure projects in Kiev region has signed a contract with China National Machinery Industry Complete Engineering Corporation to design the blueprints and carry out construction work on a project to build railway passenger lines between Kiev and Boryspil International Airport.

KIEV, May 24 - The "chestnut scandal" has become international, with the Kiev City State Administration saying the Italian side was to blame for the substitution of chestnut seedlings planted on Khreschatyk this spring.

KIEV, May 24 – The Income and Tax Ministry has said that the 7% value added tax on medicine of will not result in the large increase in the prices of medicine.

KIEV, May 24 - Myronivsky Hliboproduct plans to bring its biogas facility with Oril-Leader in Dnipropetrovsk region to projected capacity by October.

LONDON, May 26 – Law companies expect that in the coming 12 months there will be from ten to 15 initial public offerings (IPOs) of issuers with assets in Ukraine, while investment bankers expect that their number will be from six to 20, according to a study conducted by Ernst&Young.

KIEV, May 25 - Ukraine is planning in the 2011-2012 marketing year (from July 1) to export eight to nine million tons of wheat, five to six million tons of barley and four million tons of corn, which totals 19-20 million tons of grain, the Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry forecasts.

KIEV, May 25 - Ukraine will by 2030 invest over UAH 26 billion in the development of mineral resources and accelerating the rate of using strategically important mineral deposits, the Environment and Natural Resources Ministry said.

KIEV, May 26 – DTEK, the largest private vertically integrated energy holding in Ukraine, has created DTEK Naftogaz to carry out gas extraction projects, DTEK Director Maksym Tymchenko said at a press conference devoted to the long-term strategy of the company in Kiev on Wednesday.

KIEV, May 26 – Poland is actively carrying out an engineering assessment of the construction of an oil pipeline from Brody (Ukraine) to Gdansk (Poland), according to the head of the international relations department at the Presidential Administration, Andriy Honcharuk.