KIEV, Sept. 19 – Parliament at the initiative of the government has increased the partial coverage of the costs of coal products by UAH 2.1 billion through increasing the budget deficit and reducing the funding of Naftogaz Ukrayiny.

KIEV, Sept. 20 – Parliament has removed discrepancies in Ukrainian law regarding the rights of investors participating in Product Sharing Agreements (PSAs) to freely use products extracted and allocated in proportion to the share of investors.

KIEV, Sept. 20 – Ukraine intends in mid October to sign an agreement with the Export-Import Bank of China that will give Kiev $3 billion in credit lines in exchange for supplies of maize, the Financial Times reported, quoting Ukraine's Agricultural Policy and Food Minister Mykola Prysiazhniuk.

"China is asking for about 3 m tonnes of corn each year... to be supplied at market prices that are set at the time of export," Prysiazhniuk told the Financial Times.

KIEV, Sept. 20 – The slowdown in the pace of Ukrainian economic development registered by the State Statistics Service at the end of August was anticipated and was mainly caused by the worsening of the situation in the global economy, said Valeriy Lytvytsky, the head of a group of advisors to the governor of the National Bank of Ukraine.

KIEV, Sept. 19 – This year's first batch of 20.894 tons of hexachlorobenzene was removed from the toxic waste storage in the town of Kalush, Ivano-Frankivsk region, the Environment Ministry reported.

KIEV, Sept. 19 – Eight wooden Ukrainian churches, four in Lviv region, two in Ivano-Frankivsk region, and two in Zakarpattia region, have been chosen to be put on the UNESCO World Heritage list, Vasyl Slobodian, a leading researcher of the Ukrzakhidproectrestavratsia Institute in Lviv, told the Dzerkalo Tyzhnia newspaper.

KIEV, Sept. 20 – Ukraine, with current economic growth at 4%, may double its growth rate and match that of Turkey, which sees 9% growth today, according to Senior Fellow of the Peterson Institute for International Economics (New York) and one of the leading international specialists on the Ukrainian economy, Anders Aslund.

KIEV, Sept. 20 – The Association of Agricultural Producers has asked President Viktor Yanukovych to instruct the government to draw up a draft law on the cancellation of export duties on grain and submit it to Parliament.

KIEV, Sept. 20 - Ukraine and Azerbaijan will set up a joint venture to conduct a feasibility study for liquefied natural gas supply routes that may be used by Ukraine, a state agency reported Tuesday.

SOCHI, Sept. 17 - Russia and Ukraine have not been able to agree the terms of oil transit through Ukraine, Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko told journalists.