KIEV, Oct. 24 - Chornomornaftogaz has begun building a propane-butane plant at the Hlibivka gas treatment plant.

Construction will take 15 months and the updated gas treatment plant is scheduled to reach full capacity in 2014, the company said.

KIEV, Oct. 24 – The Pivdenne design bureau (Dnipropetrovsk) said it is working with Russia and Kazakhstan on the creation of a new superheavy rocket carrier using technologies of the Energia-Buran Soviet program.

KIEV, Oct. 22 – After the coming into force of a law banning tobacco advertising, sponsorship and sales promotion, 98% of trade outlets have removed direct cigarette advertising from showcases and cash desk areas, according to the results of monitoring in five cities of Ukraine and Crimea.

KIEV, Oct. 23 – In Ukraine last year, thanks to reforms in starting a business, the registering of property and paying of taxes, climbed by 15 positions in the World Bank's Doing Business rating, although the country is still behind most other countries, being 137th, between Lesotho and Philippines.

KIEV, Oct. 24 - Ukraine's Pivdenne Design Bureau and Pivdenmash (both based in Dnipropetrovsk) are finishing the drawing up of a contract with Italy's AvioSpA for the production and delivery of engines for the fourth stage of the new European Vega launch vehicle.

KIEV, Oct. 24 – The National Bank of Ukraine has given permission to commercial banks buy foreign currency from the population without copying passports, effective October 28.

KIEV, Oct. 21 – Metinvest Group intends to commission blast furnace No.3 at Yenakiyeve Steelworks (Donetsk region) in early November.

Production capacity of the blast furnace will make 1.2 million tons a year.

KIEV, Oct. 21 – The facilities of Ukraine's National Space Facilities Control and Test Center based in Yevpatoria, Crimea, will be deployed for the Russian Fobos-Grunt program and Spectrum-X-Gamma program.

BRUSSELS, Oct. 21 - The European Parliament has postponed a vote on a resolution on Ukraine until a plenary meeting in Brussels on November 10-11.

KIEV, Oct. 22 - Financial irregularities worth some UAH 8 billion have been discovered in Rodovid Bank after the bank transferred to state control, while financial irregularities worth UAH 2 billion were found in Bank Kiev and Ukrgasbank, the head of the chief audit department, Petro Andreyev, said at a press conference on Thursday.