KIEV, Jan. 21 – Former Transport Minister Viktor Bondar is accused of aiding the deliberate demolition of the unfinished Teremky bus station and thereby causing losses to the state worth over UAH 5.5 million, the main department for defense policy and the activities of law enforcement agencies at Ukraine's presidential administration has reported.

KIEV, Jan. 21 – The Higher Economic Court of Ukraine has canceled the protections given to Soremartec S.A., a part of the Ferrero Group, of the intellectual property right to the trademark protecting the appearance of Raffaello sweets in Ukraine, Soremartec reported.

KIEV, Jan. 21 - The government on Friday shifted supervision over the planned building a liquefied natural gas terminal on the Black Sea to a special agency and away from the energy ministry.

KIEV, Jan. 22 - The declines on stock markets around the globe will reduce the effectiveness of initial public offerings by Ukrainian companies and increase the costs of borrowing on the domestic market, Ukrainian bankers surveyed by Interfax said on Tuesday.

KIEV, Jan. 23 - Interest rates on the State Mortgage Institution's mortgage credits in hryvnias in 2007 fell by almost 5%, from 16.05% to 11.3%, while the interest rates of the commercial banks fell by 3.7%, from 17.75% to 14.05%, according to the State Mortgage Institution.

KIEV, Jan. 23 - Fuel and Energy Minister Yuriy Prodan has ordered Ukraine's oil transportation monopolist UkrTransNafta to study the proposals of Halychyna (Drohobych oil refinery in Lviv region) and Naftokhimik Prykarpattia (Nadvirna oil refinery in Ivano-Frankivsk region) to use the Odessa-Brody oil pipeline in reverse regime to diversify the sources of oil supplies to Ukraine and provide regular supplies to refineries, the fuel and energy ministry reported.

KIEV, Jan. 22 ??“ Germany's VEKA AG, whose core business is the production of window and door frames, is to invest about EUR 14 million in the construction of a polyvinylchloride (PVC) frame plant in Kiev region within three years.

KIEV, Jan. 23 ??“ ChornomorNaftoGaz, a Crimea-based oil and gas producer, said its gross revenue rose 17% on the year to UAH 800 million in 2006, according to a company press release issued on Monday.

KIEV, Jan. 23 - Industrial Union of Donbass (IUD) in December 2006 began importing iron ore concentrate from Brazil's MBR (Miniracoes Brasierias Reunidas S.A.).

KIEV, Jan. 23 ??“ The total assets of Ukraine's banks in 2007 could grow by 37%, to $74.8 billion, and their GDP share will be 66%, according to analysts at Russia's Troika Dialog Investment Company.