KIEV, Aug. 19 – In the nearest future the price of natural gas exported to Ukraine from Russia will be the same as in the rest of Europe, former President Leonid Kravchuk said at a press conference on Tuesday.

MOSCOW, Aug. 19 – OSAO ROSSIA insurance company plans to enter the markets of Ukraine and Azerbaijan, the company said in a press release.

KIEV, Aug. 19 – The share of bread wheat in the current year will top 40% of the overall wheat yield in Ukraine, the Agriculture Policy Ministry forecasts.

"We project that bread wheat will account for over 40% of the overall yield of wheat," Anatoliy Rozgon, the director of the ministry's agricultural market development department, told reporters on Tuesday.

KIEV, Aug. 19 – Inflation expectations worsened in Ukraine in May-June, and the Ukrainians' estimation of their current welfare dropped to a record low over the last five years, according to the International Center for Policy Studies (ICPS).

KIEV, Aug. 20 - Polish fast food company AmRest, which operates 31 Rostik's-KFC and 18 Pizza Hut restaurants in Russia, has signed a memorandum of intent with Kuwait's Americana to set up a joint venture in Ukraine to expand the chains there, an AmRest official told Interfax.

The JV will be set up on a 50-50 basis. "If the parties decide to bring in a local partner, it might take a stake of up to 10%, in which case AmRest and Americana would each have 45% stakes," the official said.

KIEV, Aug. 19 – Kiev's economic court has received an action against Sandora Ltd and its subsidiary Mykolaiv juice factory to meet a claim filed by Odessa baby food cannery.

KIEV, Aug. 17 – The national energy company UkrEnergo plans to complete the building of the 330 kV Adzhalyk-Usatove power transmission line in Odessa region on Aug. 13, 2008, Deputy Director for investment programs and construction at the company, Volodymyr Buzinov, told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Aug. 17 – The Antimonopoly Committee has allowed a TuranAlem Bank subsidiary, Almaty-based BTA Insurance, to buy over 25% of Kiev-based Insurance Company Oranta, the AMC announced.

MOSCOW, Aug. 20 - Russia and Ukraine are set to sign an agreement to settle a dispute over steel reinforcement bar shipments.

KIEV, Aug. 17 - Donetsk businessman MP Rinat Akhmetov, President Viktor Yushchenko and former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko top the list of the 100 most influential Ukrainians compiled by the magazine Korrespondent.