KIEV, Aug. 17 – Ukraine needs to give serious thought to building a centralized storage facility for waste nuclear fuel since waste fuel from Ukrainian nuclear power plants, which is temporarily stored in the Russian Federation will start to come back from 2013, the Emergencies Ministry said.
KIEV, Aug. 17 – Parliament has registered a draft law on the placement, designing and construction of reactors three and four of Khmelnytsky nuclear power plant.
KIEV, Aug. 17 – A technical mission of the International Monetary Fund will visit Kiev on August 29 - September 5 to discuss budget prospects for 2013, according to the IMF Resident Representative Office in Kiev.
KIEV, Aug. 20 – The government is planning to approve a national project to foster its bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, said Vladyslav Kaskiv, head of the State Agency for Investment and National Projects.
KIEV, Aug. 20 – The National Bank of Ukraine is toughening foreign currency purchase rules with the introduction of a requirement to service one economic agreement in one bank.
The decision is stipulated in NBU resolution No. 308, which will take effect from the moment of its publication on August 23, 2012.
KIEV, Aug. 20 — The government on Monday dismissed the head of EnergoAtom, the state-owned nuclear power generating giant, creating a vacancy for the position, which will supervise $5 billion in new capacity projects within eight years.
ZAPORIZHIA, Aug. 20 – Zaporizhia regional state administration chairman Oleksandr Starukh on Tuesday ordered an inspection of the DniproGES hydropower facility, following an accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric plant in Russia.
KIEV, Aug, 20 – Inflation in Ukraine in 2009 will be 16%, while GDP will fall by 13.5%, according to a forecast from the International Center for Policy Studies.
"Real GDP will fall by 13.5% over the year. The hryvnia [the official exchange rate] will fall to UAH 10 per $1 by late 2009 [the average rate over 2009 will be UAH 8.3 per $1].
KIEV, Aug. 19 -- Moody's Investors Service has upgraded the long-term local currency deposit and long-term foreign currency debt ratings of Bank Finance and Credit to B1 from B2 and the bank's National Scale Rating to Aa3.ua from A1.ua.
KIEV, Aug. 19 -- Alfred C. Toepfer International (Ukraine) Ltd. plans to export 3 million tons of grain from Ukraine in the current marketing year (July 2008 through June 2009).
