KIEV, Nov. 21 – Former Finance Minister Viktor Pynzenyk, who won a seat in Parliament on the election list of Vitali Klitschko's UDAR Party, has criticized the policy of the National Bank of Ukraine and said it could result in serious shocks for the foreign exchange market and a deep devaluation of the national currency.

KIEV, Nov. 21 – State-run Chornomornaftogaz (Simferopol, Crimea) on November 20 welded the final join of the 83-kilometer underwater gas pipeline linking the BK-1 platform of the Odeske gas field and the MSP-4 platform of the Holitsynske gas condensate field.

KIEV, Nov. 21 - Ukraine's coal mining and power generating giant, DTEK, which is the country's largest exporter of power to Europe, plans to build a new 800 MW ultra-supercritical power generating unit at Burshtyn Thermal Power Plant, the company reported Wednesday.

KIEV, Nov. 21 – Parliament has decided not to apply the "local content rule" for renewable energy objects started before January 1, 2012.

A total of 260 out of 330 lawmakers registered in the session hall on November 18, 2011 supported draft law No. 9444.

KIEV, Nov. 21 – Criminal proceedings have been instituted in Moldova on charges of non-compliance with court ruling and an order has been issued for the arrest of president of the Ukrainian state-run enterprise National Nuclear Generating Company EnergoAtom Yuriy Nedashkovsky, according to the Dzerkalo Tyzhnia Ukraine (Mirror Weekly) newspaper.

KIEV, Nov. 21 – Banks should demand information to specify data regarding identification of clients, assessment of their financial state and the core of their activities, taking into account the level of risk defined under an internal bank program on money laundry risk assessment and management, the National Bank of Ukraine said in a letter to banks.

KIEV, Nov. 21 – The net inflow of foreign currency to Ukraine registered in January-October 2011 at some $12 billion provides for the proper support of the hryvnia exchange rate and points out the groundlessness of talks around coming devaluation, according to Serhiy Korablin, the director of the department for analysis and projections on the monetary and credit market at the National Bank of Ukraine.

KIEV, Nov. 18 – Naftogaz Ukrainy’s deficit in 2010 may hit UAH 15 billion, reads a draft memorandum by the Ukrainian authorities seeking the second tranche of a loan from the International Monetary Fund.

The text of the document was posted on the Ekonomichna Pravda online newspaper.

KIEV, Nov. 18 – The Ukrainian authorities fully intend to gradually increase the retirement age for women from 55 to 60 years despite trade union protests.

KIEV, Nov. 19 - Natural gas stocks in underground storage facilities in October grew by 2.5% or 600 million cubic meters, to 24.4 billion cubic meters (bcm), the Fuel and Energy Ministry said.