KIEV, June 26 – Deputy Prime Minister Kostiantyn Hryschenko and Jan Muehlfeit, chairman of Microsoft Corporation in Europe at a meeting on June 21 discussed the problem of the use of unlicensed software on the PCs of the executive power agencies, Hryschenko's press service reported.

KIEV, June 26 – The price of wheat in Ukraine has started falling due to the expectations that the grain of the new harvest will soon arrive on the market, market experts have said.

KIEV, June 26 – Ukrspecexport state enterprise has won a tender for repairs and modernization of MiG-21 aircraft for the tactical air defense of the Air Force of the Republic of Croatia.

IVANO-FRANKIVSK, June 26 – A resolution intended to attract investments to the region has been approved at a session of Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Council.

KIEV, June 25 - U.S. oil major Chevron is expected to invest $25 billion in development of the Olesska shale gas deposits in Ukraine, Volodymyr Ihnashchenko, an advisor to the environment protection and natural resources minister, said Tuesday.

KIEV, June 25 - Ukraine may start massive imports of natural gas via Slovakia after a meeting with European officials in Brussels on July 4, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Eduard Stavytskiy said Tuesday.

KIEV, June 25 - Ukrainian state-run offshore developer Chornomornaftogaz has commissioned two new wells at the Shtormove gas condensate field on the Black Sea shelf, the company said.

MOSCOW, June 25 - Gazprom wants greater transparency in the process of gas pumping into Ukrainian underground storage facilities, the Russian company said following a meeting between its CEO Alexei Miller and Naftogaz Ukrainy's CEO Yevhen Bakulin in Moscow on Monday.

KIEV, June 26 – The Ukrainian government has excluded the developer of the Novokostiantynivske uranium field (Kirovohrad region) from the list of companies financed under the Nuclear Fuel of Ukraine state targeted program.

MOSCOW, June 26 - Ukraine's policy of pegging its national currency (the hyrvnia) to the U.S. dollar is inefficient in current conditions and should be substituted for a peg to a multi-currency basket, said Petro Poroshenko, Ukrainian Economic Development and Trade Minister and member and former head of the National Bank of Ukraine's board.