KIEV, Nov. 29 - Naftogaz Ukrayiny and Smart Maritime Group, which unites shipbuilding and marine assets of Smart-holding, have signed a memorandum on strategic cooperation in the development and restoration of technological fleet of state-run enterprise Chornomornaftogaz (Simferopol), the state holding reported on Thursday.

KIEV, Nov. 28 – Ukraine’s economy will not necessarily go into recession this year and there is still the possibility of finishing the year with a "soft landing," said Valeriy Lytvytsky, the head of a group of advisors to the governor of the National Bank of Ukraine.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 - Ukraine wants to resume its stalled loan program with the International Monetary Fund, but there are no plans yet for a negotiating mission, a fund spokesman said Thursday.

KIEV, Nov. 29 – Canada's Black Iron, a Canadian company with assets in Ukraine, reported that it has retained the services of U.S. talk show host Larry King to provide international advisory and awareness services.

KIEV, Nov. 29 - There are no reasons to issue 1,000 hryvnia banknotes in Ukraine, Deputy Director General of the Money Circulation Department of the National Bank of Ukraine Viktor Zaivenko said.

KIEV, Nov. 28 – Pechersky District Court of Kiev has ordered the arrest of Volodymyr Halytsky, head of the State Employment Service.

Halytsky's defense team said that he had been in detention for two months.

KIEV, Nov. 28 – The issue of the demarcation of the territories of the capital and Kiev region will be settled by the end of the year, said Anatoliy Prysiazhniuk, head of Kiev Regional State Administration.

KIEV, Nov. 29 - Ukraine has exported 6.808 million tons of grain from the beginning of the agricultural year (July 2011 - June 2012) through November 28, 1.68 million tons more than in the same period of last year, reports Serhiy Kvasha, the Ukrainian Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry's Director of the Department for Economic Development and the Agrarian Market.

LVIV, Nov. 29 –Nauka, a Kiev-based research and industrial concern has launched a first facility in Ukraine that will produce nanoheterostructures for High-Brightness LED Devices (HBLED), concentrated solar batteries and powerful SHF transistors worth around $10 million.

KIEV, Nov. 29 – The unbiased attitude of the State Statistics Committee to presenting of price statistics is in doubt, according to Valentyn Symonenko, the head of the Accounting Chamber of Ukraine.