SIMFEROPOL, March 30 - The Crimean authorities do not intend to revisit the results of the privatization of enterprises carried out on the Black Sea peninsula before it became part of Russia, Crimean leader Sergei Aksyonov said during a personal reception in the audience hall of the Russian president in Simferopol.

KIEV, March 30 – The State Export-Import Bank of Ukraine (Ukreximbank, Kiev) has commenced a consent solicitation in relation to the outstanding $750 million 8.375% loan participation notes (LPN) due on April 27, 2015.

KIEV, March 30 – Ukrainian banks UAH 66.027 billion in February, 7.8 times more than January's UAH 8.504 billion, the National Bank of Ukraine reported.

KIEV, March 30 – The National Bank of Ukraine has provided a new stabilization credit of UAH 800 million to the largest bank in the country – PrivatBank (Dnipropetrovsk), NBU said on its website.

VIENNA, March 30 - Billionaire financier George Soros is ready to invest $1 billion in Ukraine, if Western countries help private investment there. He also put the odds of Greece leaving the euro at a third, in an interview with Austrian newspaper Der Standard, Reuters reported.

MOSCOW, March 30 - Russian gas giant Gazprom on Monday offered to extend a supply deal with Ukraine for another three months ahead of a looming deadline that had raised fears for deliveries to Europe, AFP reported.

LONDON, March 30 - International banks are waiting for the outcome of Ukraine's sovereign debt restructuring before embarking on billions of dollars of corporate financial restructuring in the war-torn region, Reuters reported.

KIEV, March 29 - International oil and gas company Shell hopes Ukraine will announce an open tender to select an investor for the development of hydrocarbon reserves under a production sharing agreement (PSA) soon, noting the delay in its preparation.

LVIV, March 30 – Mass illegal dismissals have started at Lviv-based OJSC Zakhidenergo, an electricity generating company, claims Oleksandr Hudyma, an MP from the BYT faction and a member of the parliamentary committee for fuel and energy complex.

KIEV, March 29 – Ukraine is lagging behind other countries in the region due to structural weaknesses and problems with reforms, IMF Resident Representative in Ukraine Max Alier said.