MOSCOW, Nov. 17 ??“ Russia and Ukraine are in talks on the possibility of raising Russian investments under projects for the production of uranium in Ukraine, head of the Ukrainian EnergoAtom nuclear power generation company Andriy Derkach told reporters in Moscow on Friday, following talks with Rosatom and OAO TVEL.

KIEV, Nov. 20 - Siemens AG Concern (Germany), one of the world's largest telecommunications equipment producers, finished the 2005/2006 fiscal year on Sept. 30 with an increase its sales of 81%, to EUR 369 million, while its order portfolio increased by 113% and reached a EUR 471 million record, according to the company financial report for the period sent to Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Nov. 20 ??“ UkrNafta, Ukraine's largest oil producer, will in the middle of December announce the results of a tender to select a general contractor to build the first part of the Hamaliyivsky gas processing plant in Poltava region and to upgrade the Pasychniansky gas processing plant in Ivano-Frankivsk region.

MOSCOW, Nov. 20 - The Swiss trader RosUkrEnergo AG, in which Russia's Gazprom has a 50% stake, signed a three-year contract on Friday to supply gas to Polish gas monopoly PGNiG in 2007-2009.

A source in RosUkrEnergo told Interfax that, according to the document, the supplies would amount to 2.5 billion cubic meters of gas per year. This will account for about one fifth of Polish gas supplies.

KIEV, Nov. 20 ??“ The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMC) at the request of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC), will check the activities of CJSC UkrGaz-Energo to establish whether the company is a monopolist on the market, according to NSDC Secretary Vitaliy Haiduk.

KIEV, Nov. 18 ??“ Eurocar, plans to produce 128,000 cars of the Skoda, Volkswagen, and Audi makes in 2005-2010.

KIEV, Nov. 18 ??“ A Poltava region court ruling may force the British firm Regal Petroleum Corporation Limited to return five out of the eight wells it uses to Nadra Ukrayiny, a state-owned company.

KYIV, Oct 19 – National Nuclear Generating Company Energoatom has prepared an intergovernmental agreement between Ukraine and the United States on the construction of power units using the technology of U.S. Westinghouse and sent it for approval to the central authorities, Energoatom Head Petro Kotin has said.

KYIV, Oct 19 – The Central Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility (CSFSF) may accept the first fuel after obtaining a license from the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate that may take up to three months, acting President of Energoatom Petro Kotin said.

Holtec of U.S. that built the storage will have to complete work to provide infrastructure for shipping fuel from nuclear power plants, he said.

KYIV, Oct 20 – Uber taxi service has launched Pool Chance in Kyiv, which provides an opportunity to share a ride with another passenger in one car.

"Pool Chance is an option in the Uber app that allows you to share a ride with another passenger in the same direction.