KIEV, May 22 ??“ Karavan Ltd., a major Ukrainian retailer, saw its net profit fall by 3.3 times in 2006, to UAH 1.688 million.

KIEV, May 22 - The Kiev Economic Court ruled on May 21 to prevent the Ukrainian State Property Fund from selling a 1% stake in Ukrtelecom on stock exchanges, a court official told Interfax on Tuesday.

KIEV, May 22 ??“ Ukraine??™s inflation will be at 6.8% in 2008, while the economy is expected to expand 7.2% on the year in 2008, Economy Minister Anatoliy Kinakh said Tuesday.

KIEV, May 19 ??“ The number of foreign-owned banks in Ukraine rose to 11 from 9 at the beginning of the year due to deals completed by Raiffeisen, BNP Paribas and Credit Agricole, the National Bank of Ukraine reported.

KIEV, May 22 ??“ Ukraine??™s Economy Ministry recently distributed unused 2005 quotas for metal supplies to the European Union between a number of Ukrainian steel companies, Deputy Economy Minister Volodymyr Hranovsky said.

KIEV, May 22 ??“ UkrAvto Corp, the owner of Ukraine??™s largest automotive company ZAZ, was ready to spend $300 million to buy engine manufacturing equipment at now defunct Daewoo Motor plant in India, an official said.

MOSCOW, May 19 ??“ Representatives of the Metalloinvest Company, which manages mining and metallurgical assets of businessmen Alisher Usmanov and Vasiliy Anisimov, have submitted to the Ukrainian government a plan for the creation of the Eurasian Mining and Metallurgical Company, Metalloinvest's executive director Dmitry Tarasov told Interfax on Wednesday.

KIEV, May 19 ??“ The primary importers of Ukrainian scrap ferrous metal in Q1 were Turkey, with 48.6% of exports volume (54.9% in Q1 2004), Moldova with 32.1% (22.7%) and Egypt with 8.9% (18.2%).

KYIV, April 22 – Environmental prosecutors, together with other specialists, are establishing the amount of environmental damage caused as a result of Russian missile attacks on the Trypilska Thermal Power Plant in Kyiv region, the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine reports.

KYIV, April 21 – The customs index in the second half of 2020 reached 3.08 points (on a 5-point scale), which is the lowest indicator since 2019, and compared to the first half of last year by 0.29 points, the European Business Association (EBA) reported based on the results of an expert research conducted with the participation of 85 representatives of its member companies.