KIEV, May 25 – State-run EnergoAtom is holding consultations with Russia's Rosatom, Canada's AECL, Korea's KEPCO, France's AREVA, and U.S.-based Westinghouse to choose a standard design for the reactors of new nuclear power facilities in the country, EnergoAtom First Vice President and technical director Ivan Foltov announced this at the 18th international conference on nuclear engineering (ICONE18) in Xi'an (China) on May 17-20.

KIEV, May 26 – The conditions of Ukrtelecom’s privatization are to be revised, and the cabinet even could revise its decision to sell the whole of its stake in the company, according to Volodymyr Zverev, a member of the National Communications Regulatory Commission.

KIEV, May 26 – Ukraine has signed 15 out of 18 planned agreements at a meeting of the Council of CIS Prime Ministers, and supported one decision out of four put before the council, the government reported.

KIEV, May 25 – The parent structures of banks with foreign capital are strongly against an order by the National Bank of Ukraine that bank reserves only be formed in the Ukrainian currency, the hryvnia.

KIEV, May 26 - Ukraine will soon sell 150 million of Assigned Amount Units (AAUs) to companies in Switzerland and New Zealand to raise cash to finance greenhouse gases emission reduction projects, according to a government order.

BRUSSELS, May 23 – The European Commission has passed a decision placing stricter conditions on the import of Ukrainian sunflower oil, but it will still be supplied to EU countries based on issued certificates.

KIEV, May 23 – Ukraine's real GDP growth in 2008 will be 6.5%, compared to 7.6% in 2007, according to Goldman Sachs Senior Economist and Executive Director Rory MacFarquhar.

KIEV, May 26 – A three-year agreement between Ukrtransnafta, Russia's Transneft and TNK-BP on annual supplies of up to 9 million tons of Russian oil through the Odessa-Brody pipeline to the Yuzhny port, which was signed in December 2006, foresees its termination only in case of notification of its participants 90 days in advance, TNK-BP told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, May 26 – Foreign direct investment to Ukraine in 2008 could grow to $11 billion, which is 40% more than in 2007, according to a forecast of the head of Dragon Capital Investment Company, Tomas Fiala, at an annual investment conference organized by the company in Kiev.

KIEV, May 26 – It's expedient for Ukraine to increase its hryvnia exchange rate flexibility and take care of providing independence of the National Bank of Ukraine, according to Balaz Horvat, the IMF's permanent representative in Ukraine.