KIEV, May 24 ??“ The State Property Fund of Ukraine has put up 1% of stocks in telecoms giant Ukrtelecom for sale on the Ukrainian Stock Exchange (USE) on May 29, the SPF reported on its official Web site.

KIEV, May 24 - Germany's Siemens and the Ukrainian State Rail Transport Administration and are developing a locomotive that operates both on alternating and direct current, Rail Administration General Director Volodymyr Kozak said at a Thursday.

MINSK, May 24 - A meeting of the Council of CIS Prime Ministers scheduled to take place on Friday in Yalta will see discussions of economic interaction between CIS member states, including the creation of a common energy market.

KIEV, May 24 ??“ Germany's Homanit is to launch the construction of a wood-processing factory in Korosten in Zhytomyr region late in 2007 to produce thin fiberboard for furniture.

KIEV, May 24 ??“ Ukraine has a considerable economic growth potential, which is higher than the Russian one, says Anders Aslund, a leading expert of the Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics.

KIEV, May 24 - Ukraine??™s largest power producer EnergoAtom may reduce output 2% on year to about 87 billion kilowatt-hours in 2006 from 88.7 billion kWh in 2005, Yuriy Nedashkivskiy, the head of EnergoAtom, said Wednesday.

KIEV, May 23 ??“ The European Investment Bank, the European Union's investment arm, may expand its portfolio of Ukrainian projects up to $3 billion in the near future, the Economy Ministry has reported on its Web site.

KIEV, May 24 ??“ Naftogaz Ukrayiny, the national oil and gas company, will seek to borrow money to pay its debt of more than $400 million owed to RosUkrEnergo, a gas trader, an official said Wednesday.

MOSCOW, May 24 ??“ Russia??™s Nutritech group of companies, uniting 13 food and agricultural enterprises, is planning to conclude by mid-2005 a deal on the purchase of the Khorol Dairy Cannery (Poltava region), Ukraine's biggest baby food producer.

KIEV, May 24 ??“ AutoKrAZ Holding Company in Kremenchuk, Poltava region, has already supplied Iraq with 1,300 KrAZ vehicles under a contract to supply over 2,000 trucks, and aims to complete the contract on time, its director general Serhiy Sazonov said at a press conference at the international car show SIA-2005 on May 23.