KIEV, April 24 – The removal by Russia of restrictions on its imports of Ukrainian cheese will not cause a rise in the price of cheese and an increase in purchasing prices for milk in Ukraine, according to market experts.

KIEV, April 24 – Interpipe Nyzhniodniprovsky Pipe Plant (NTRP) has gained certification to supply finished machined railway wheels to the national railway operators of the Czech Republic and Hungary, according to a company press release issued on Wednesday.

KIEV, April 23 – Ukraine's state road service, known as Ukravtodor, is currently in talks with the World Bank on raising a EUR 400 million loan for the renovation of a stretch of the Kiev-Kharkiv highway.

KIEV, April 24 – SCM, the holding company of Donetsk-based System Capital Management Financial and Industrial Group, plans to invest around $80 million in the television business and around $40 million in the publishing business, holding's director general, Oleh Popov, said in an interview with the Kommersant-Ukraine newspaper.

KIEV, April 22 – The increase in the NBU discount rate reflects growing instability in the country's financial sector, according to bankers polled by Interfax-Ukraine.

MOSCOW, April 24 ??“ Ukraine??™s economy is likely to expand 7.2% on the year in 2008 and will have consumer inflation at 6.8%, Stanislav Bukovynsky, the head of the National Bank's council, said Tuesday.

WARSAW, April 24 ??“ PKO Bank Polski SA (Poland) is purchasing a 28% stake in Kredobank from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, this way increasing its stake in the bank to 98%, Bloomberg reported.

KIEV, April 24 - The share of foreign capital in the Ukrainian banks' combined charter capital could grow to 35% by the end of 2007 from 27.6% at the start of the year.

MOSCOW, April 21 - The U.S. Justice Department's organized crime division is investigating RosUkrEnergo AG, a company that supplies Russian and Central Asian natural gas to Ukraine, Reuters reported citing diplomatic and financial sources.

KIEV, April 20 ??“ The Ukrainian government approved a plan for the use of radio frequency bands in the country, Transportation and Communications Minister Viktor Bondar said.