KIEV, Feb. 20 – Rinat Akhmetov's DTEK energy holding has contracted 330,000 tons of coal from South Africa, the holding reported.

"In the difficult situation of full consumption of coal stocks at Prydniprovska thermal power plant [TPP] DTEK has signed contracts to supply 330,000 tons of coal from South Africa.

KIEV, Feb. 20 – International investors are concerned about Russia's participation in the expected restructuring of Ukrainian eurobonds, analysts from Nomura investment bank said after meetings with investors in New York.

KIEV, Feb. 22 - The State Property Fund has announced a tender to select an assessor of capital assets of properties of Irshansk ore-mining and dressing mill in Zhytomyr region and Vilnohirsk mining and smelting mill in Dnipropetrovsk region, reads a report published in Vidomosti Pryvatyzatsii newspaper.

KIEV, Feb. 22 - Ukraine’s largest privately owned coal mining and power generating company, DTEK, will dramatically increase coal output after taking over two major state-owned coal producers in December, a company official said Wednesday.

KIEV, Feb. 20 – A group of Ukrainian deputies have proposed to exclude bookmaking from the list of gambling games and to permit the work of bookmakers' offices in Ukraine.

The corresponding norm is stipulated in the draft law on bookmaker activity of February 15, 2012 that proposes legal, organizational and another specifics of the state regulation of bookmaker activity.

KIEV, Feb. 20 – Kyivvodokanal is planning in 2012 to invest over UAH 300 million in the modernization of its networks, Oleksandr Mazurchak, first deputy head of Kiev City State Administration, said at a press conference.

KIEV, Feb. 21 – The American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine has said unjustified pressure is being placed by the tax authorities on enterprises legally operating in Ukraine.

The Chamber said it intends to ask the government of Ukraine to take measures at the legislative level to protect the rights of taxpayers.

KIEV, Feb. 22 – The State Property Fund has announced a tender to sell a 50% stake in Dniprooblenergo (Dnipropetrovsk), an electricity supply company, reads a report published in Vidomosti Pryvatyzatsii newspaper.

KIEV, Feb. 21 – Most Ukrainians fear that a world food crisis might occur, and almost half of the population thinks that Ukraine will face food security problems.

KIEV, Feb. 21 – Businesses working on the Internet are concerned over attempts by Ukrainian state government agencies to introduce regulations on various aspects of the work of the Internet.