KIEV, April 25 ??“ Dnipropetrovsk regional economic court on Wednesday turned down the claim of the State Property Fund asking to arrest a 50% + one stock in Nikopol ferroalloy plant in Dnipropetrovsk region, a source in the court told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, April 25 ??“ Ukreximbank, one of two state-owned commercial banks in Ukraine, is raising a loan facility of $50 million from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) at LIBOR+2.35%.

KIEV, April 25 - Raiffeisen International Bank AG, the biggest foreign lender in the former Soviet Union, was close to selling its smaller Ukrainian unit to OTP Bank of Hungary for $500 million, a Ukrainian official said.

KIEV, April 25 ??“ Russian Aluminum, Russia??™s biggest aluminum producer, may build a smelter in Ukraine if the government allows the company to buy cheap electricity, Rusal deputy general director Alexander Livshits said.

KIEV, April 25 ??“ France's L'Empire du vin plans to join forces with a local alcohol producer to build a $25 million cognac plant with a production capacity of 1.5 million bottles per year in Crimea.

KIEV, April 25 - The International Finance Corporation (IFC) may allocate a $100 million loan to the Industrial Union of Donbas (IUD) in Ukraine's Donetsk for upgrades, improving competitiveness and environmental programs.

KIEV, April 25 ??“ Ukrainian MPs have proposed an increase import duties on cars to 30% (from ?0.8 to ?2.6 per cubic cm of engine cylinder), and on car chassis for large-unit assembly to 20%.

KIEV, April 25 - The biggest Polish insurer, PZU S.A., is ready to invest ?40 million in Ukraine, if necessary, President of PZU Ukraine Insurance Group [earlier Skide-West Insurance Company] Andriy Peretiazhko said last week during the first international conference "Bringing Investment into Ukrainian Enterprises 2005", the group's press service reported.

MOSCOW, April 24 - The two major shareholders of mobile phone company Vimpelcom on Sunday gave sharply differing reactions to the rejection by the Russian company's board of a proposed purchase of a Ukrainian mobile operator, Reuters reported Sunday.

KYIV, March 23 – The European Investment Bank (EIB) made two more EUR100 million payments to Ukraine this week, the bank said on its website.

With these two disbursements, we have provided EUR629 million of our initial support package of EUR668 million, and that's not all. These funds will help cover urgent financial needs in the face of Russian aggression, the bank said.