KIEV, Oct. 20 – Ukraine's economy has started to recover, although the realization of reforms in the financial and taxation spheres should be accelerated to strengthen the process, according to Nouriel Roubini, professor of economics at New York University's Stern School of Business.

KIEV, Oct. 20 – Ukraine should support the stability of the hryvnia exchange rate and fight to rein in inflation, according to Petro Poroshenko, the head of the National Bank of Ukraine Council.

KIEV, Oct. 19 - Ukraine plans to start selling state-owned coal mines next year in an effort to improve coal mining industry’s efficiency and to reduce subsidies on the sector, a government official said Tuesday.

KIEV, Oct. 18 – First Deputy Prime Minister Andriy Kliuyev has instructed the Industry Ministry to draw up a high-quality program to attract an effective investor to complete and launch Kryvy Rih oxidized ore mill, also known as KGOKOR (Kirovohrad region).

KIEV, Oct. 18 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is considering providing an equity investment of up to EUR 100 million to Lafarge Aggregates Eastern Europe, a regional holding vehicle to be created by Lafarge SA, to manage the existing quarry and distribution operations in Ukraine and pursue further developments in Ukraine, Russia, Serbia, Belarus and other selected EBRD countries of operations.

KIEV, Oct. 19 - Black Sea Shipyard state-run enterprise (Mykolaiv) is to build another container ship hull under an order from Damen Shipyard Bergum (the Netherlands).

KIEV, Oct. 19 – The Ukrainian real estate market in August 2009 hit bottom and the situation in the fourth quarter is beginning to stabilize, which could lay the grounds for the growth of real estate prices next year, forecasts President of the Association of Realtors of Ukraine Andriy Shulha.

KIEV, Oct. 19 – The International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank Group, plans to implement about 10 projects in Ukraine's banking sector in the 2010 financial year (from July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010), said IFC Country Representative in Ukraine Elena Voloshina.

KIEV, Oct. 20 – Smart-holding said it has implemented its investment commitments in full at OJSC Kherson shipyard under an agreement on the purchase of the shipyard of August 30, 2004 and an annex to the agreement signed on April 7, 2006 between Ukraine's State Property Fund and Smart Group.

KIEV, Oct. 20 – The Ukrainian cabinet has suspended a scheduled increase in the tariffs for the transportation by rail of products of the metals and mining sectors and chemical industry until the end of 2008.