MOSCOW, Feb. 21 - It will be difficult to persuade Customs Union businesses to resume cooperation with Ukraine, Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) Trade Minister Andrei Slepnyov told a press conference in Moscow on Friday.

MOSCOW, Feb. 21 - Ukraine's political crisis could have a negative impact on agricultural producers, although Russian consumers will not feel the consequences if there are disruptions to agriculture exports from Ukraine, Russian Agriculture Minister Nikolai Fyodorov said.

KIEV, Feb. 21 – Work at Mariupol confectionary factory (Donetsk region) was stopped in February, the Roshen Corporation has reported.

The corporation said the factory was stopped due to politically motivated complications with the foreign trade relations of Ukraine.

KIEV, Feb. 24 – The employees and top managers of Kyivmiskbud Holding, one of the largest construction companies in Ukraine, has expressed their sincere condolences to the families of killed protesters in Ukraine and said that the holding is ready to restore the center of Kiev, Ihor Kushnir, president and chairman, said in an official statement.

KIEV, Feb. 21 – From March 1 to December 1, 2013 receiving licenses to make medicine imports to Ukraine will bear a declarative principle to prevent there being obstacles to importing these products to Ukraine, Health Minster Raisa Bohatyriova said.

KIEV, Feb. 24 – Deputy Prime Minister Andriy Kliuyev will present the Ukrainian position regarding problems in the creation of a free trade zone between Ukraine and the European Union during talks in Brussels on March 2-3, according to a posting on the Web site of the Ukrainian government.

KIEV, Feb. 24 – Interpipe, Ukraine’s biggest steel pipe producer, plans to complete construction of an electric furnace steelmaking complex and will start tests of its equipment by the end of 2011, Interpipe said in a statement Thursday.

KIEV, Feb. 22 – The installed capacity of electrical power plants belonging to the integrated power system of Ukraine grew by 0.4% (by 203.8 MW) in 2010, to 53,162 MW, according to National Energy Company Ukrenergo.

KIEV, Feb. 22 – The Cabinet of Ministers is considering ways to resume exports of Ukrainian gas to Poland, a source in the national joint-stock company Naftogaz Ukrayiny has told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Feb. 23 – The cabinet could increase the country's wheat export quotas by 500,000-800,000 tons by the end of the current marketing year (July 1, 2011, MY), according to Ukrainian Agrarian Policy and Food Minister Mykola Prysiazhniuk.