KIEV, March 24 - Fair and transparent privatization of state-run enterprises is the key factor for restoring the Ukrainian economy in 2016, EBRD Director for Ukraine Sevki Acuner said.

KIEV, March 23 – Fitch Ratings has downgraded JSC The State Export-Import Bank of Ukraine (Ukreximbank) and JSC State Savings Bank of Ukraine (Oschadbank) Long-term foreign currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs), and their foreign currency senior debt ratings, to 'CC' from 'CCC'.

KIEV, March 21 – Shell and Ukrgazvydobuvannia have finished drilling the second Novo-Mechebilivska-100 exploration well (Kharkiv region) under their joint operations agreement, Shell reported on Monday.

KIEV, March 24 – Roshen Confectionary Corporation plans to file a counter-claim against a March 14 Tverskoi Court of Moscow ruling of which arrested all accounts of enterprises of the corporation in Russia.

KIEV, March 24 - Ukraine on Monday resumed power supplies to its breakaway region of Crimea at full capacity following a brief disruption on Sunday caused by an apparent malfunction, DTEK KrymEnergo, a local power distributor, said.

KIEV, March 21 - ArcelorMittal Kryviy Rih (Dnipropetrovsk region) saw UAH 2.892 million in net losses in 2012, while in 2011 its net profit stood at UAH 2.143 billion, reads a company report on the holding of a general meeting of its shareholders scheduled for April 25.

KIEV, March 22 - Ukraine's gross foreign debt increased 2%, or by $2.6 billion, to $135.05 billion, in the last quarter of last year, the National Bank of Ukraine says.

KIEV, March 22 – It is unlikely that the World Trade Organization and European Union will respond with sanctions to the introduction of special duties on imports of cars with 1-2.2 liter engines by Ukraine, will introduce sanctions, according to Nick Reilly, former head of General Motors Europe.

KIEV, March 22 – Prime Minister Mykola Azarov says he was surprised that the Svoboda All-Ukrainian Union, the Communist Party and Batkivschyna joined forces to fight the government's bill on the development of shale gas in Ukraine.

MOSCOW, March 24 - The dispute between Russian and Ukraine over the PrikarpatZapadtrans pipeline system, part of the Transnefteprodukt system, is threatening to bring the transit of oil products to Europe to a halt.