KYIV, Nov 21 - Retail trade turnover in Ukraine in comparable prices in January-October increased by 8.2% compared to the same period in 2016, to UAH 651.19 billion, the State Statistics Service has said.

KIEV . Nov 22 – The project under which the World Bank Group's International Finance Corporation ( IFC ) would provide financing of up to $200 million for a period of one year to Naftogaz Ukrayiny to buy natural gas by from large European suppliers remains in effect and its implementation depends on the needs of Naftogaz, IFC Regional Manager in Ukraine and Belarus Rufat Alimardanov said.

KIEV , Nov. 23 - Cashless payments using payment cards in expanded by 12.5% in Q3 compared to the previous quarter, to UAH 149.5 billion, the National Bank of Ukraine reported.

KIEV, Nov. 23 – The National Bank of Ukraine has made an exception of the general rules of controlling the rates of foreign credits of loans if resident borrowers (both companies and financial institutions) raise funds from nonresident creditors with the participation of export-credit agencies.

KIEV, Nov. 20 – Investment experts positively assess the interest of U.S. investor philanthropist George Soros to Ukraine, but they are skeptical about what investment activities in the country could actually stir up.

KIEV, Nov. 23 – The National Bank of Ukraine is considering conducting new stress tests at Ukrainian banks to determine the level of their potential financial stability in unfavorable conditions, the director of the chief banking supervision department at the NBU, Oleksiy Tkachenko, said.

KIEV, Nov. 23 – Ukrtransnafta, a monopolist in oil transportation in the country, has announced that Ukrtatnafta (Kremenchuk oil refinery, Poltava region) won a tender to refine around 300,000 tons of Azeri light oil at Ukrainian oil refineries in the fourth quarter of 2011 and the first quarter of 2012.

KIEV, Nov. 21 – The Security Service of Ukraine has announced a drive to remove corrupt officials from state agencies.

"We want to eliminate certain corrupt links, which parasitize on the state agencies system," an employee of the SBU's main department for fight against corruption and organized crime, Pavlo Kuzmenko, said.

KIEV, Nov. 22 - Austrian developer Activ Solar has completed the construction of the third 20-MW stage of the Perove solar power plant (in Simferopol, Crimea), bringing its installed capacity to 60 MW, the company announced.

ISTANBUL, Nov. 23 – Ukraine is holding consultations with Turkey on technical issues regarding the passage through the Bosporus Strait by gas tankers to the country's future LNG terminal, Ukrainian Ambassador to Turkey Serhiy Korsunsky said in Istanbul on Tuesday at a presentation of the Ukrainian projects.