KIEV, Feb. 26 – Waste nuclear fuel storage facility two at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant could be launched in 2010, according to Emergencies Minister Volodymyr Shandra.

KIEV, Feb. 26 – A transfer to inflation targeting would allow the National Bank of Ukraine to efficiently fight inflation and provide better conditions to support macro-economic stability, Balazs Horvath, resident representative of the International Monetary Fund in Ukraine, said in an interview with the Dzerkalo Tyzhdnia weekly newspaper published last week.

KIEV, Feb. 23 ??“ Ukraine's economy will expand 6% on the year to about $110.2 billion in 2007, while inflation will be 10.5%, according to a report by Moody's Investors Service.

KIEV, Feb. 26 ??“ Interpipe, Ukraine??™s largest producer of steel pipes and train wheels, will build a $610 million steelmaker within the next 26 months to reduce costs, a company announced Monday.

WARSAW, Feb. 23 - Polish online communicator Gadu-Gadu will launch the Ukrainian version of its communicator at the turn of the first and second quarters before it enters the Russian market possibly in 2007, the company's executive board member Piotr Pokrzywa told reporters.

KIEV, Feb. 26 ??“ Russia's Mirax Group, the construction holding, plans from March 1 to start selling commercial premises in the highest multi-functional building under construction in Kiev, at Hlybochynska Street in Podil District.

KIEV, Feb. 24 - World??™s major oil companies, including ExxonMobil, ChevronTexaco and Shell, submitted bids for a license allowing exploration and extraction of oil and gas offshore Black Sea in Ukraine, an industry executive said Friday.

KIEV, Feb. 24 ??“ Ukraine and Saudi Arabia have agreed to create a joint venture in the shipbuilding sector, and may also sell and manufacture Antonov planes in Saudi Arabia.

KIEV, Feb. 24 ??“ Nyzhniodniprovsky Steel Pipe Plant, one of Ukraine??™s biggest producers of steel pipes, will invest $410 mln to build a steel-smelting facility with an annual capacity of 1.32 mln tons, the company said.

KYIV, Jan 25 – Over the past three months, there has been positive dynamics in increasing export transportation of agricultural products across the Black Sea, which has helped Ukraine reduce pressure and reduce grain exports to the European Union, Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Mykola Solsky said in a comment to the Interfax-Ukraine agency on Thursday.