LVIV, Dec. 21 – The Ukrainian Academic Research Network (Uarnet) will join the European network of scientific information exchange, Uarnet Director Ihor Protsykevych said.

KIEV, Dec. 18 – The State Mortgage Establishment (SME) is mulling the possibility of providing a loan repayment holiday to borrowers whose financial situation has been affected by the economic crisis, SME Chairman Kyrylo Shevchenko said.

KIEV, Dec. 18 – The Antimonopoly Committee has officially recommended that Kiev city state administration revise and set economically justifiable tariffs for passenger transportation by electric transport of Kiev Metropoliten and Kyivpastrans.

KIEV, Dec. 21 - Ireland's Quinn Group plans to invest up to EUR 1 billion in real estate in Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Russia and India, Quinn Group director general, Volodymyr Shymkin, told Interfax-Ukraine on Wednesday.

KIEV, Dec. 21 ??“ Russia's Lighting Technologies Company has launched the first part of a new lamp plant in Slavutych in Kiev region, the company press service reported on Wednesday.

KIEV, Dec. 20 - Erste Bank Austria has reached agreement with the shareholders of Kiev-based Bank Prestige to acquire 100% of the bank for $104 million, Erste Bank said in a press release.

PRAGUE, Dec. 20 - Home Credit, a consumer lending group controlled by top Czech financial group PPF, said it completed the acquisitions of two Ukrainian financial institutions - bank Agrobank and non-banking financial firm PrivatKredit.

The acquisitions are part of the group??™s expansion strategy, Home Credit reported.

LONDON, Dec. 21 - Moody's Investors Service has assigned a B3 Corporate Family Rating to VAT Zaporizhstal, one of the leading Ukrainian steel producers. The rating outlook is stable. This is the first time Moody's has assigned ratings to VAT Zaporizhstal.

KIEV, Dec. 21 ??“ Electricity generation by nuclear power plants may grow to 90 billion kWh next year, Serhiy Tulub, president of the national nuclear energy generation company EnergoAtom, told journalists in Kiev on Monday.

KIEV, Dec. 21 ??“ This year??™s steep rise in energy prices has boosted operational profit at Naftogaz Ukrayiny 12-and-a-half-fold to UAH1.849 billion through the end of the third quarter, driving net earnings to UAH1.26 billion, the company reported Monday.