KIEV, Oct. 23 - Ukraine will begin imports of European natural gas via Slovakia before the end of the year, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Eduard Stavytskiy said Wednesday.

KIEV, Oct. 22 - Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers has given state-owned Naftogaz Ukrayiny permission to perform operations with government domestic loan bonds (OVGZ) at a fair market value.

KIEV, Oct. 22 - The Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, to overcome the foreign trade deficit in 2013, has proposed that the Economic Ministry, the Finance Ministry, the Justice Ministry and other relevant authorities develop a set of measures to ensure the development of a competitive domestic car industry.

KIEV, Oct. 22 – Ukraine's wheat export potential, at around 5-5.3 million tons for the current agricultural year (July 2012 – June 2013) could be exhausted by November 15, according to the Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry.

KIEV, Oct. 23 – The Agrarian Fund on November 1 starts state forward purchases of bread wheat and rye and fodder barley from the 2013 harvest.

KIEV, Oct. 21 – Ukraine has dropped three places in the Doing Business rating, an annual report by the World Bank on regulations that enhance business activity or those that constrain it, to 152nd position.

"Ukraine is ranked 152 out of 183 economies reviewed in Doing Business 2012, down from 149th place the previous year," reads a posting on the bank's Web site.

KIEV, Oct. 21 – Donetsk-based Wind Power company, which is part of the DTEK group, has started the construction of the Botyevska wind power plant in Zaporizhia region.

KIEV, Oct. 21 - Activ Solar has completed construction of its Okhotnykove solar power plant in Crimea, with total capacity of 80 MW after completion of a new 20-MW solar photovoltaic (PV) power plant, the company said Friday.

KIEV, Oct. 20 – A mission from the International Monetary Fund is planning to work in Ukraine from October 25 to November 4, the IMF Resident Representative Office in Ukraine has announced.

KIEV, Oct. 21 – Ukraine by late 2011 is to submit a national report on the off-schedule assessment of the safety of the reactors of the country's nuclear power plants to the European Nuclear Safety Regulators Group (ENSREG), Chairperson of the State Inspectorate for Nuclear Regulation of Ukraine Olena Mykolaichuk said.