KIEV, Jan. 24 – The State Tax Service is planning to settle all disputable issues on value added tax refunding to foreign investors in 2012, State Tax Service head Oleksandr Klymenko said at a meeting with companies belonging to the European Business Association.

KIEV, Jan. 24 - Gazprom International and Naftogaz Ukrayiny struck an agreement on January 18 to ramp up their mutual efforts in setting up a joint venture for opening the Pallas structure on the shelf of the Black Sea, a statement issued by the Russian company says.

KIEV, Jan. 24 – France's Vicat could built a cement plan with the production capacity of 1-1.3 million tons of cement per year in Vinnytsia region, and its preliminary cost could be some $200 million, Vinnytsia's regional administration head, Mykola Dzhyha, said after talks with investors.

KIEV, Jan. 21 – The Antimonopoly Committee plans on January 24-January 30 to decide what action it will take over the price hikes for A-95 and A-92 gasoline seen at the end of 2010 and first days of 2011.

BERLIN, Jan. 24 – Germany has criticized Russia and Ukraine for grain export restrictions, while the two countries explain their measures by the extraordinary situation on the grain market due to heavy drought in 2010 and criticizes the European Union for hindering grain supplies from the CIS states.

KIEV, Jan. 24 – Kiev city has selected the winner of a tender to select an organizer of a eurobond issue worth at least $200 million in 2011, a source on the market has told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Jan. 21 – Ukraine in 2010 will need 60.89 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas, including 20.67 bcm of Ukrainian-extracted gas and 27 bcm of imported gas.

KIEV, Jan. 21 – Ukrainian exporters will be the key driver of economic development in Ukraine in 2010 in the wake of the expected increase in demand for Ukrainian goods on foreign markets, according to Ukrainian experts.

KIEV, Jan. 22 – The 62-month period of construction of the Podilsko-Vyhurivska subway line, which will connect Kiev's right bank with the Troyeshcyna residential district, will start only when the Podilsko-Voskresenky bridge over the River Dnipro is commissioned, the head of the Kiev Metropoliten municipal company, Petro Myroshnikov, said during a phone conference in Kiev.

KIEV, Jan. 22 – The National Bank of Ukraine has denied that the International Monetary Fund approved a decision to transfer a portion of the bank's forex reserves to the Ukrainian government.