KIEV, April 22 – Investment in commercial real estate in Kiev in 2007 was around $500 million, according to a report of Kiev-based Colliers International Consulting Company, referring to its experts.

MOSCOW, April 21 - Russia's Mobile TeleSystems is not planning to independently take part in a tender for the sale of the Ukrainian government's stake in Ukrtelecom and will only do so in a consortium with other companies, MTS President Leonid Melamed said at a press conference in Moscow on Monday.

KIEV, April 21 – The Ukravtodor state motor roads service has asked the government to increase the financing of the construction of roads by UAH4.8 billion.

KIEV, April 21 – The Fruit Master Group in April this year launched a new winery with a capacity of about 20 million liters a year in Zakarpattia region, according to company Director General Natalia Martynenko.

KIEV, April 22 - EuroChem Mineral & Chemical Company still plans to bid in the tender for a 99.52% stake in the Odessa Portside Plant (OPP), one of Ukraine's largest chemical companies, even if the plant's ammonia loading facility is not included, the head of the Russian company's Ukrainian office, Viktor Kovalsky said on Monday.

KIEV, April 22 – The National Bank of Ukraine should more actively use interventions to control the hryvnia exchange rate and expand refinancing, according to NBU council head Petro Poroshenko.

KIEV, April 20 ??“ The amount of Ukrainian banks' debt, including the issue of Eurobonds, domestic bonds and the borrowing of syndicated loans will grow to $10 billion in 2007 from $7.3 billion in 2006, according to Standard & Poor's.

KIEV, April 20 ??“ The Finance Ministry by late April plans to sum up the results of a tender to select a lead-manager for international borrowing in 2007, Deputy Finance Minister Andriy Kravets said.

KIEV, April 20 ??“ Ukraine's Antimonopoly Committee has permitted Societe Industrielle Commerciale Et De Participation (France) to purchase over 50% of Ukraine's large cheese producer Shostka municipal dairy in the Sumy region.

KIEV, March 20 - Ukraine boosted steel production by 11.5% in March 2007 year-over-year, to 3.724 million metric tons of steel, and ranked 8th in the International Iron and Steel Institute's rating of the world's 66 biggest steel producing countries.