KIEV, Feb. 21 - Ukrainian-Iranian InterNaftGasProm Pars (INGP Pars) and Petroleum Engineering and Development Company (PEDEC, a subsidiary of the National Iranian Oil Company) on February 20 signed a contract on the development of three oil fields, according to Press TV, the Iranian state TV channel.

KIEV, Feb. 22 – The Finance Ministry has proposed to increase the minimum wholesale and retail prices of vodka and liquors by 26.4%, a source in the sector has told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Feb. 23 - Parliament Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn has called on international experts to assess the quality of Ukrainian cheese products.

"In my opinion, if the Ukrainian side, Ukrainian producers are 100% confident that this cheese meets all international and European standards, they should ask international experts to examine these products and give their assessment," Lytvyn told Ukraine's First National Television Channel on Wednesday evening, commenting on the Moscow-Kiev dispute over the quality of Ukrainian cheese imports.

KIEV, Feb. 23 – High tariffs in Ukraine might trigger a boom in solar power projects that beats government targets, as it did in western European nations that offered above-market rates for solar power, according to Martin Simonek, an analyst at Bloomberg New Energy Finance.

KIEV, Feb. 23 – The State Tax Service announced it has agreed to organize a meeting with representatives of the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine to settle all disputable issues.

KIEV, Feb. 23 –The rapid rise in the price of oil on the global markets could seriously affect the price of gasoline and diesel fuel in Ukrainian retail chains in early March, according to experts polled by Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Feb. 23 – DTEK, the largest private vertically integrated energy holding in Ukraine, announced it cut exports of electricity from the Burshtyn thermal power plant (Zakhidenergo) to Europe on February 21 due to a fire at a transformer.

KIEV, Feb. 23 - Consumer confidence in Ukraine worsened in January, the International Centre for Policy Studies (ICPS) reported, citing the results of another consumer confidence survey as part of a joint project with GfK Ukraine.

KIEV, Feb. 21 – Dzerzhynsky district court in the town of Kryvy Rih on Monday sentenced former Deputy Head of the State Committee of Ukraine for the State Material Reserve Mykola Sinkovsky to 10 years in prison, with the confiscation of his property.

KIEV, Feb. 22 – AFK Sistema and Switzerland's Leica Geosystems are to cooperate in the creation and exploitation of global positioning systems (GPS) and designing new space vehicle docking systems.