KIEV, March 24 – The National Commission for Communications and Informatization Regulation (NCCR) and mobile operations have agreed on frequency refarming of 1,800 MHz range, Commission Head Oleksandr Zhyvotovsky has said.

KIEV, March 24 – TechNova LLC, managing Darnytsia, Chernihiv, Cherkasy and Sumy combined heat and power plants (CHPPs) have contracted the delivery of 225,000 tons of anthracite from South Africa at the price of $96.60 per ton (taking into account delivery and reloading).

KIEV, March 24 - Ukraine is in talks with a major European energy company over management of its vast natural gas transportation system that moves Russian gas to Europe, according to Andriy Kobolev, the head of Naftogaz Ukrayiny.

KIEV, March 24 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is allocating EUR 65 million to the Ukrainian national transmission network operator, Ukrenergo, to enhance its power supply reliability in Kiev.

KIEV, March 25 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny is to call an open tender to hire top Ukrnafta managers, Naftogaz Executive Director Andriy Pasishnyk said.

"After the signing of law No. 2273 (endorsing the reduction of the quorum for holding shareholders' meetings from 60% to 50% plus one share), we'll call an open tender to hire Ukrnafta's top management and the selection process will take place in the presence of journalists and lawmakers," he wrote on Facebook on Tuesday evening.

MOSCOW, March 26 - Platinum Bank (Kiev) plans to shut down its business in Crimea and put its credit portfolio in the region up for sale, the Kommersant newspaper reported on Wednesday.

KIEV, March 26 - Ukraine's new leaders, in a step the ousted government had balked at, said on Wednesday it would raise the price of gas for domestic consumers by more than 50% from May 1 and would raise prices further under a fixed timetable to 2018, Reuters reported.

KIEV, March 25 – The surplus of Ukraine's balance of payments in February 2013 was estimated at $1.3 billion, while in February 2012 there was a deficit of $55 million, the National Bank of Ukraine said.

KIEV, March 25 – Ukrainian scientists have discovered a new hydrocarbon province close to Ukraine's Academician Vernadsky station in the west of Antarctica, according to a statement posted on the government's Web site with reference to the State Agency for Science, Innovation and Information Technology.

KIEV, March 25 - February was marked by a dip in the consumer confidence of Ukrainians, according to a monthly survey by GfK Ukraine.

The Consumer Confidence Index was 83.7 points, which is 1.2 points lower than in January.