KIEV, Nov. 18 – The Group of States Against Corruption (GRECO) has released a report as a result of third round of the evaluation of Ukraine in the area of the criminalization of corruption and transparency in financing political parties and election campaigns, the Justice Ministry's press service reported.

KIEV, Nov. 18 – IKEA of Sweden does not plan to review its plans to enter the Ukrainian market because of the economic crisis, Oksana Belaichik, IKEA spokesperson for Russia and the CIS, told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Nov. 19 – Donetsk-based Altcom Industrial Group and France's Bouygues Comapny are holding preliminary negotiations on the joint construction of roads in Ukraine.

According to a posting on the Web site of Altcom Group, the French company is ready to invest in the building of Ukrainian roads if the state provides traffic guarantees.

KIEV, Nov. 19 – Ukraine exported around 10 million tons of grain and two million tons of rapeseed from the beginning of the marketing year (July 2008 through June 2009) through Nov. 19, Agriculture Minister Yuriy Melnyk said.

ZAPORIZHIA, Nov. 20 - Zaporizhia regional administration head Oleksandr Starukh has confirmed earlier reports suggesting that several units at the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant could be stopped because of a significant decline in power consumption by regional industrial enterprises.

KIEV, Nov. 19 - Bank of Cyprus Public Company Ltd (Bank of Cyprus) has announced that it has signed a sale and purchase agreement to acquire a 95% stake in Ukrainian bank AvtoZAZBank for about EUR52 million.

KIEV, Nov. 19 - The state-owned Naftogaz Ukrayiny has decided following a meeting with bondholders to postpone the issuance of its financial report for 2006, violating a covenant with the company's eurobond holders, one of the market players has told Interfax-Ukraine.

ODESSA, Nov. 20 - Ukrtranscontainer, a private company managed by Russia's National Container Company (NCC), under its program to increase capacity has opened the largest container terminal in Ukraine (Illichevsk in Odessa region), which is able to process ocean container ships with a capacity of up to 6,000 TEU, which arrive from Asian ports to the Black Sea.

DONETSK, Nov. 20 - Donbas Fuel Energy Company (DTEK) plans to invest $380 million in 2007-2012 into the upgrade and development of the Zuyevskaya, Kurakhovskaya and Luganskaya thermal power plants, DTEK Director for Generation and Distribution Garry Levesley has said.

DONETSK, Nov. 20 - Greater safety measures have been put in place at all Ukrainian coal mines exposed to the risk of methane outbursts, Serhiy Storchak, chairman of the Ukrainian State Committee for Industrial and Occupational Safety and Mining Supervision, said in Donetsk on Tuesday.