LONDON, April 19 - Ukraine's Economic Development and Trade Ministry considers accusations of dumping against Ukrainian pipe producers by their European competitors to be unfounded, and it will help these companies in the investigation launched by the European Commission.

KIEV, April 19 - Kharkiv-based Electrotyazhmash state-run enterprise, one of the largest manufacturers of turbogenerators and electric motors for drives in the world, is in talks with managers of Brazil's Camargo Correa on the joint participation in the designing, building and supply of equipment for hydroelectric power plants in Latin America, the Ukrainian enterprise told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, April 20 - Ukraine and Russia are drafting an intergovernmental cooperation agreement to resume serial production of a modernized version of the Ruslan An-124-100, the world's largest heavy cargo transport plane.

KIEV, April 20 – Industrial prices in Ukraine rose by 1.1%, in March, while in February their growth was 0.8%, and in December-January the prices were falling, the State Statistics Service reported.

LONDON, April 20 - Ukraine's State Property Fund and Prosecutor General are continuing litigation to renationalize a 68.01% stake in Zaporizhia Aluminum Smelter (ZAlK), but believe it would make sense to sign a new contract with the stake's owner, Russian aluminum giant UC Rusal.

LONDON, April 20 - Moody's Investors Service assigned a B1 rating on Tuesday to the senior unsecured loan participation notes of Ukraine's Ukreximbank, the agency said in a statement.

KIEV, April 22 – Rinat Akhmetov, who owns 100% of Donetsk’s System Capital Management, has decided to allocate the company's net profit for 2008 on the development of the business and to support a high level of liquidity for the group's assets.

KIEV, April 22 – The Ukrainian government is ready to consider returning to state ownership those private coal producers that are unable to work effectively under the conditions of a global financial crisis, Deputy Coal Minister Anatoliy Korzun said.

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.