KIEV, April 26 ??“ Interpipe Corporation is planning an initial public offering (IPO) in 2008, Oleksandr Kyrychko, managing director of Interpipe Management, said during the Tube/Wire exhibition in Dusseldorf.

KIEV, April 26 ??“ The Prosecutor's General Office urged UkrZaliznytsia, the state railroad company, to cancel its recent cooperation agreement with Privatbank in order to reduce excessive spending.

KIEV, April 26 ??“ The International Finance Corporation (IFC) is considering financing the Velyka Kyshenia supermarket chain's regional expansion project, Interfax-Ukraine reported citing a company official.

KIEV, April 26 ??“ Naftogazbud, a Ukrainian company that specializes on building oil and gas pipelines, was named the winner of the tender to spearhead the Bohorodchany-Uzhgorod gas pipeline, Naftogaz Ukrayiny reported.

MOSCOW, April 26 - The Spaceway F1 broadcast satellite was launched from the Sea Launch Home Port at 11:31 a.m. (Moscow time) on Tuesday, a representative of the Russian Flight Administration Center told Interfax.

KIEV, April 26 ??“ ABB Ltd., subsidiary of ABB, Europe??™s biggest power technical company, is planning to open this summer a workshop in Ukraine to assemble low-voltage equipment, director general of ABB Ltd. Andriy Abdulakh told Business weekly.

KIEV, April 26 - Severstal-Group Holding (Russia), one of the world's top-10 steel making companies, is still interested in buying metallurgical and ore mining assets in Ukraine, including Kryvorizhstal and Ukrrudprom, director general Aleksey Pertin announced, according to Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, April 26 ??“ The State Export and Import Bank of Ukraine (Ukreximbank) will ask the government to send at least $100 million from the state budget in 2006 in order to increase its statutory fund, the bank's board chairman Viktor Kapustin said.

KIEV, April 26 - Aleksei Miller, the chief executive officer at Gazprom, Russia's gas monopoly, arrived in Kiev on Tuesday for natural gas supply talks, a spokesman at Naftogaz Ukrayiny, the national oil and gas company, said.

KYIV, March 22 – The Cabinet of Ministers approved a bill amending the Tax Code of Ukraine, providing, among other things, for a gradual increase in the excise tax on motor fuel until 2028, in particular on gasoline by 68%.