KIEV, Nov. 24 – The debt of municipal heat supplying companies to Gaz Ukrayiny for gas consumed since the start of the new heating season (from October 1, 2009) has exceeded UAH 927 million with a 19% level of payment, the company reported on Monday.

KIEV, Nov. 25 – Ukraine's balance of payments situation improved in October, although the positive trends seen are unstable, according to Valeriy Lytvytsky, the head of the group of advisors to the governor of the National Bank of Ukraine.

KIEV, Nov. 25 – The recently passed law restricting the currency crediting of individuals deprives Ukrainian consumers temporarily traveling abroad of the chance to open an overdraft on a current account in foreign currency and is not in line with requirements of the Civil Code, according to lawyers polled by Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Nov. 24 – Kiev’s Mikol Ltd. has won a tender to design and build a terminal for budget airlines at the Boryspil state international airport.

According to the Transport and Communications Ministry, the project's value is UAH238 million, and the terminal is to be commissioned three months after the start of construction.

KIEV, Nov. 24 – The servicing of loans taken from Britain's Standard Bank London is in line with the conditions of the credit agreement, Naftogaz Ukrayiny reported.

KIEV, Nov. 25 – The Ukrainian Grain Association is calling on the country’s authorities to take measures as soon as possible to stimulate grain exports, UGA President Volodymyr Klymenko said.

"We need to export at least 10 million tonnes of grain. If we don't this, then by July 1, 2009, we will have a reserve of 17 million tons, and this is a catastrophe,” he told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Nov. 25 – Switzerland's Alter Energy Group AG (earlier Fincon, Zurich) has signed a letter of intent to build and own five hydropower plants in the Ivano-Frankivsk region of Ukraine with Halychynaenergoinvest Company.

KIEV, Nov. 25 – Ukraine's economic growth can restart no earlier than 2010, according to experts from the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.

According to a Dragon Capital Investment Company press release, which cites the participants of a phone conference organized by the company, IMF and World Bank experts are considering two scenarios of development for the macroeconomic situation in Ukraine.

KIEV, Nov. 23 - Ferrexpo Plc, which owns 86% of Ukraine's top iron ore pellet producer Poltava Mining, has launched a $158 million project to expand production at the Horishne-Plavninske and Lavrikovske (GPL) deposits to about 32 million tons of ore per year by 2011 from the current 28 million tons.

KIEV, Nov. 22 - A Naftogaz Ukrayiny delegation headed by the company chairman Yevhen Bakulin had to interrupt talks on the gas supplies to Ukraine in 2008-2010, which were being held in Moscow, and return to Kiev due to the threat of the company's work being blocked by the tax authorities, according to a statement the holding issued on Thursday.