KIEV, May 20 – Ukraine's economy will grow 4.5% in 2011 and in 2012, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development said in its regional economic forecast, which was released on Friday.

KIEV, May 20 – Ukrcement, a privately owned company (Balakleya, Kharkiv region) plans to build a white cement plant with a production capacity of 340,000 tons per year in Milove, Kharkiv region, announced Oleh Gross, who is the owner of a 30% stake in the company.

KIEV, May 23 – The total income of Valeriy Khoroshkovsky, head of Ukraine's SBU security service, came to UAH 5.154 million in 2010.

His declaration, a copy of which has been posted by Ukrainska Pravda online publication, says that Khoroshkovsky obtained UAH 4.9 million from interest and tenancy fees, UAH 11,000 was obtained from scholastic activity and his wage stood at over UAH 235,000.

KIEV, May 23 – The Antimonopoly Committee has permitted Alcor & Co Ltd. (Moscow), which is developing the L'Etoile perfume chain, to acquire a stake in Nevioco Holdings Limited, which earlier obtained a permit to buy a controlling stake in Hexagone Ltd., a large distributor of Hexagone perfume, operating with the Brocard Ukrainian chain.

KIEV, May 23 – The American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine has said it will insist on the update of the law on seaports before Parliament adopts it at second reading.

KIEV, May 23 ??“ Ukraine's economy may double by the end of 2010, to $200 billion, which will help boost stock market development, managing director of Kiev-based Dragon Assets Management company Dmytro Isupov believes.

PRAGUE, May 13 (AFP) - Toxic waste, water pollution and the legacy of Chernobyl have plunged Ukraine and neighboring Moldova and Belarus into an environmental crisis, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said.

KIEV, May 23 - Switzerland's Ferrexpo AG, which owns Poltava GOK, Ukraine's biggest producer of iron ore pellets, plans to conduct an IPO of London-based Ferrexpo Plc's stocks on the London Stock Exchange (LSE).

KIEV, May 23 ??“ McDonald's Ukraine is planning to almost double the number of its fast-food restaurants to 100 in five to seven years, McDonald's Ukraine Director General Igor Delov has said.

KIEV, May 23 - Rockwool International A/S has decided to build a green field factory to produce insulation materials in Ukraine, reads a quarterly report recently announced by the company.