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.

KIEV, Nov. 23 – The monetary policy of the National Bank of Ukraine is to be aimed at cutting inflation and devaluation pressure, reads a monetary survey of the NBU.

KIEV, Nov. 22 - The potential acquisition of a state stake in OJSC Ukrtelecom had by Monday attracted the interest of five companies, head of the State Property Fund Oleksandr Riabchenko said at a press conference in Kiev.

MINSK, Nov. 22 – The trial pumping of oil in the direct mode through the Odessa-Brody oil pipeline is proceeding very slowly for technical reasons, and the process may take about a week, the Belarus Oil Company told Interfax-West.

KIEV, Nov. 23 – Kiev-based Concorde Group Ltd. plans to start building Kazantip wind power plant (Crimea) with a generating capacity of 100 MW in March-April 2011, deputy director Andriy Konechenkov told Interfax-Ukraine.