KIEV, June 21 - Karpatnaftokhim (Kalush, Ivano-Frankivsk region) announced it is planning to build a suspension polyvinylchloride (PVC-S) production facility with the capacity of 20,000 tons per year and 40,000 tons per year in the future and launch it by late 2011.

MOSCOW, June 21 - Ukraine is working to reduce the amount of Russian gas consumed by Ukrainian businesses, Naftogaz Ukrayiny chief Yevhen Bakulin said at the Petroleum and Gas Congress in Moscow on Tuesday.

KIEV, June 22 - The sum of donor funds to finance Chernobyl projects has grown to some EUR 700 million.

"We have almost EUR 700 million. Let's remind that the procedure is the following: first a country declares a desire to contribute funds, and then under a schedule it sends donations every year," State Agency for the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Management Chairman Volodymyr Kholosha said.

KIEV, June 22 - DTEK is planning to finish a procedure for land plot allocation by 2012 to build wind farms - DTEK Pryazovsky in Zaporizhia region and DTEK Manhush in Donetsk region.

Director of Wind Power Ltd., a subsidiary of DTEK, Yuriy Zhabsky said at the presentation of the Power of Nature national project in Kiev on Tuesday that the company has finalized a procedure for land allocation and leased a land plot to build a pilot Botiyeve wind power plant in Zaporizhia region.

KIEV, June 22 - Ukraine's Antonov aircraft maker and Russian aircraft leasing company Ilyushin Finance Co. yesterday signed a contract for the supply of 10 An-158 airliners at the 49th Paris Air Show at Le Bourget.

KIEV, June 22 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny expects to reach a compromise with Russia's Gazprom in talks on the price of Russian natural gas and guarantees of gas transit through Ukraine, Naftogaz CEO Yevhen Bakulin said at the ninth Russian Petroleum and Gas Congress held in Moscow on June 21-23.

SEVASTOPOL, June 22 – Sevastopol City State Administration Chairman Valeriy Saratov has said that Russia's active participation in the social and economic development of Sevastopol will help solve many problems and improve the lives of citizens, including those of the families of the servicemen of the Russian Black Sea Fleet.

KIEV, June 21 - Karpatnaftokhim Ltd. (Kalush, Ivano-Frankivsk region) announced plans to launch chlorine and soda ash production facilities in September and PVC-S production by the end of 2010.

KIEV, June 21 – Ukraine's Finance Ministry plans to raise about UAH 800-900 million through the introduction of a 5% tax on individuals' income from bank deposits, Deputy Finance Minister Tetiana Yefimenko said.

KIEV, June 22 - The Ukrainian Scrap Metal Association (UAVtormet), jointly with the Ukrainian Industry Ministry, supports restrictions on the terms of licenses on transactions with scrap ferrous and non-ferrous to five years.