MOSCOW, Dec. 20 – A joint Russian-Ukrainian production of the world's largest cargo plane, the An-124 Ruslan, will not be resumed any time soon, Russian daily Izvestia reported.

LONDON, Dec. 20 - Kazakhstan and Ukraine will step up borrowing abroad in 2011, said Andrei Solovyev, the global head of capital debt markets at VTB Capital, the investment banking arm of the VTB group.

KIEV, Dec. 20 – Oleksandr Yanukovych, the Ukrainian president's son, who has been holding a 90% stake in the Kiev-based Ukrainian Development Bank via the Donetsk-based Donsnabtara Ltd. until recently, intends to become the owner of a 100% stake in the bank.

KIEV, Dec. 21 - System Capital Management (SCM, Donetsk) and its associated structures have not filed an application to participate in a tender to sell a 92.79% state-owned stake in national fixed-line telephone operator OJSC Ukrtelecom.

KIEV, Dec. 21 – NATO has extended a contract to lease Ukrainian and Russian An-124-100 Ruslan heavy transport aircraft with a carrying capacity of 120 tons under the NATO's Strategic Airlift Interim Solution (SALIS) for the use of 18 countries of the alliance and the European Union.

KIEV, Dec. 21 – The Ukrainian cabinet has approved a draft agreement in the form of an exchange of notes between the Ukrainian and U.S. governments on the resumption of the agreement under the Ukraine Nuclear Westinghouse Fuel Qualification Project of June 5, 2000.

The decision is stipulated in cabinet resolution No. 2256-r of December 15, 2010.

KIEV, Dec. 21 - Ukraine has placed another $500 million in eurobonds, its second placement of sovereign eurobonds this year, Credit Suisse Group AG, the issue organizer, said.

The eurobonds were placed at 6.7% and mature on December 21, 2011, according to the terms published by the Ukrainian government on Monday.

KIEV, Dec. 21 – The Industry Ministry has discussed cooperation with ADMA Products (the United States) in the titanium powder production sector.

KIEV, Dec. 21 – The National Bank of Ukraine has noted a considerable inflow of foreign currency into Ukraine in the first half of December.

"According to recent data, the trend seen in the previous two months when Ukrainian residents' currency receipts exceeded their own payments to foreign partners is continuing in December.

KIEV, Dec. 18 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny is now a public joint stock company.

This is stipulated in the company's new bylaws sealed in cabinet resolution No. 1354 dated December 2 and made public on December 18.