KIEV, July 18 – It is planned to shut down 46 coal mines in Donetsk and Luhansk regions as a part restructuring the coal industry through 2017, Natalia Zinkevych, director of the labor and employment market of the said Social Policy Ministry.

KIEV, July 18 – State Enterprise Antonov (Kiev) is preparing to transfer a fifth An-158 regional jet to Cubana de Aviacion airline by the end of this month, the company has told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, July 18 – The German-Ukrainian Fund (GUF) is launching a pilot program for lending to micro, small- and medium-sized businesses (MSMB) in Ukraine's priority industries at a limited interest rate, according to the National Bank of Ukraine.

KIEV, July 18 – The adoption of the law on state service would resolve the problem of the material security of state officials and make this profession more prestigious, Head of the Main Department of the Civil Service of Ukraine Tymofiy Motrenko has said.

KIEV, July 19 - Ukrainian Research and Design Institute for Industrial Technology (Zhovti Vody, Dnipropetrovsk region) wants to attract open joint-stock company State Special Project Institute (GSPI, Russia) as a subcontractor to draw up of a feasibility study for the construction of a nuclear fuel production plant in Ukraine, the Economic Development and Trade Ministry reported.

KIEV, July 20 – An expert and analytical group on the functioning of the fuel market and oil sector development under the Cabinet of Ministers has reduced the recommended ceiling price of A-95 gasoline by 0.5% or five kopecks, to UAH 9.85 per liter.

KIEV, July 19 – The growth of real gross domestic product (GDP) in Ukraine in 2010 may hit 3.3% and may further speed up to 4.5% in 2011, according to the results of a forecast by Moody's Investors Service that have been posted on the official Web site of the Ukrainian Finance Ministry.

KIEV, July 19 – The top-priority task of the State Customs Service and the State Tax Administration of Ukraine (STAU) is the introduction of an electronic document circulation system, according to Deputy Prime Minister Volodymyr Sivkovych.

KIEV, July 19 – The Association of Tourism Business Leaders as of July 16 has received over 40 applications from travel agencies affected by the collapse of the Karya-Tour Ukraine travel agency.

The association reported last week that the total sum of the debt to tourists exceeds UAH 1.4 million, and new applications are arriving.

KIEV, July 20 – The Agriculture Ministry has said it hopes the country will harvest over 43 million tons of grain this year, despite the wet weather that is hindering the harvesting campaign.