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.

KIEV, Nov. 26 – Sumy engineering workers are to increase production of equipment for oil, gas and chemical industries in Iran.

The press service of Sumy regional administration reported on Thursday that agreements on the expansion of cooperation were reached on November 25 at a meeting of the acting head of Sumy regional administration Viktor Cherniavsky with Iranian Ambassador to Ukraine, Akbar Ghasemi-Aliabadi.

KIEV, Nov. 29 – Consumer confidence and inflation expectations in Ukraine improved in October, according to a press release of the International Centre for Policy Studies (ICPS), citing the results of another consumer confidence survey as part of a joint project with GfK Ukraine.