KYIV, Jan 22 - The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) in January will not significantly weaken monetary policy, but by the end of the year the refinancing rate could fall to 15-17% from 18% per annum, according to bankers polled by Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Jan. 19 - Ukrgazvydobuvannia in 2016 received 13 new special permits for exploration and production of hydrocarbons, company chairman Oleh Prokhorenko said at a press conference in Kiev.

DAVOS, Jan. 19 – Kharkiv Tractor Plant, which resumed operations on January 6 after a many-month idle period, will soon produce the first tractor and by the end of February the plant seeks to produce 150 tractors a month, DCH Group owner and President Oleksandr Yaroslavsky has said.

KIEV, Jan. 20 – Ukrgazvydobuvannia increased sales of natural gas intended for households by 1.4% or 184 million cubic meters (mcm) in 2016, to 13.002 billion cubic meters (bcm), First Deputy Chairman Oleksandr Romaniuk said at a press conference in Kiev.

DAVOS, Jan. 20 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is ready to help Kiev City to implement the bid orbital road construction project, Mayor Vitali Klitschko told reporters at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

DAVOS, Jan. 20 – Kiev City is holding talks with three companies from Norway, Poland and France on the possibility of taking the city's heat pipelines to concession, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.

KIEV, Jan. 20 – The Ukrainian government seeks to switch all thermal power plants (TPPs) of public joint-stock company Centrenergo that are burning anthracite coal to burning gas coal. This will be done using the loan provided by China, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Ihor Nasalyk told reporters in Kiev.

KIEV, Jan. 20 – Roshen Corporation, which is owned by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, has decided to stop the production activity of its Lipetsk confectionery factory in Russia.

KIEV, Jan. 19 – A first convoy consisting of eight Ukrainian vehicles set out on Tuesday to deliver goods to Kazakhstan via Russia, Ukrainian Deputy Economic Development and Trade Minister and Ukraine's Trade Representative Nataliya Mykolska said at a briefing in Kiev on Tuesday.

KIEV, Jan. 20 – Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said that the Cabinet of Ministers started an internal investigation regarding a bogus firm which won a tender for UAH 480 million of the so-called "Kyoto money" and asked the National Anti-Corruption Agency to investigate the matter.