KIEV, Jan. 22 – The medium devaluation of the national currency of Ukraine projected in the national budget for 2013 - to UAH 8.30-8.40/$1 - will not have a major impact on the banking system, the Independent Association of Banks of Ukraine (IABU) reported.

KIEV, Jan. 23 – The total sum of bad credits in Ukraine in 2011 fell by UAH 54 billion or by 18%, to UAH 243 billion, according to a study released by the Credit-Rating agency.

KIEV, Jan. 23 - The new head of the World Bank's office in Kiev will be introduced in February, and meanwhile Connie Luff has been appointed as acting World Bank director for Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova, the World Bank announced.

MOSCOW, Jan. 20 – Togliattiazot on Wednesday resumed ammonia transportation via the Togliatti-Odessa pipeline, the Samara region's government has reported after a visit by Samara Region Governor Vladimir Artyakov to the enterprise.

KIEV, Jan. 20 – The World Bank recommends that the Ukrainian authorities conduct stress tests of banks to assess their potential stability amid the aftershock of the world crisis, according to Andrew Burns, the Manager of the Global Macroeconomic Trends Team of the Development Prospects Group at the World Bank.

KIEV, Jan. 20 – The Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Ministry has proposed to the government to increase financing of labor protection and safety measures at coal mines in 2012.

KIEV, Jan. 23 – Ukrtransnafta has declared Ukrtatnafta (Kremenchuk oil refinery, Poltava region) the winner of a tender to refine up to 300,000 tons of CPC Blend oil and/or up to 300,000 tons of Tengiz oil in 2012.

KIEV, Jan. 20 – The signing of an amicable agreement between the State Property Fund and CJSC Bryansk Engineering Plant managing company (Russia), under which the Russian investor is to obtain a 76% stake in OJSC Luhanskteplovoz, has been suspended because of a cessation appeal lodged by the Public Prosecutor General's Office, according to a government source.

KIEV, Jan. 20 - Zasiadko mine (Donetsk region) has signed an agreement on cooperation in development of shale gas fields with one of the world's largest oil service companies, Halliburton Co.

KIEV, Jan. 20 – The National Electricity Regulatory Commission is to raise state-run nuclear power generating company EnergoAtom's electricity supply rates by 13.1% to 17.91 kopeks per kWh from 15.83 kopeks per kWh.