KIEV, April 23 – The Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry says it considers it appropriate to limit the use of artificial sweeteners in food production.

KIEV, April 25 – One of the largest media companies in Ukraine, UMH Group, the majority shareholder of which is Borys Lozhkin, has executed an option to buy 50% of the shares of lawmaker Petro Poroshenko in joint projects Nashe Radio and KP Media.

KIEV, April 25 - More than a third of Ukrainian citizens believe that it is easier to resolve problems with the help of bribes, according to a survey conducted at the request of the Democratic Initiatives Foundation and Kiev International Institute of Sociology from March 3 to March 13.

KIEV, April 25 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has arranged a financial package of EUR 5.4 million for Kiev-based Rengó Development to build a five-megawatt solar power plant in Vinnytsia region operated by Rengó Tomashpol.

KIEV, April 25 - Ukraine will not be making any massive purchases of Russian natural gas during the next several months, Yevhen Bakulin, the head of the national energy company Naftogaz Ukrayiny, said Thursday.

LONDON, April 23 – Ukrainian metallurgy is the most dependent on exports in the world, however, vertical integration, increasing the share of high value-added production and increasing energy efficiency could improve the prospects for its development, senior metallurgy policy adviser at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Christopher Beauman said.

KIEV, April 25 – The fields with winter crops that are to be resown in 2012 amount to 2.1-2.2 million hectares thanks to good weather in spring, the head of the grain and industrial crop department of the farming department at the Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry, Leonid Sukhomlyn, said.

KIEV, April 25 – Sumy Frunze Engineering Science and Production Association, part of Konstantin Grigorishin’s Energy Standard group, has won a tender announced by Saint-Petersburg Scientific Research and Design Institute Atomenergoproject (Russia) to produce a batch of pumps for the Leningrad nuclear power plant two.

KIEV, April 25 - Demand for rolled metal products in Ukraine fell 2.9% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2012 to 1.693 million tons, Ukrainian Mining and Metallurgical Company, a major metals trader, reported.

KIEV, April 25 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny said it has opened envelopes in a tender for legal services to the holding in 2012 in Ukraine and other countries.

The state-owned company said that two companies submitted bids - Britain's Lawrence Graham LLP with the cost of services evaluated at $884,000 and Kiev-based Specht LLC with UAH 7.48 million.