KIEV, Sept. 18 – Kiev-based Ukrainian Mining & Metallurgical Company, one of the country's biggest metal traders, will be reorganized into a publicly held corporation in order to conduct an initial public offering, a source in the company told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Sept. 19 - AeroSvit-Ukrainian Airlines said it is expecting to amicably settle a conflict with the Antimonopoly Committee over setting the price of tickets.

KIEV, Sept. 19 ??“ The investment into Tashlyk pumped-storage plant could be fully paid back in the near future thanks to the sale of greenhouse gas emissions quotas, according to First Deputy Environment Protection Minister Sviatoslav Kurulenko.

IVANO-FRANKIVSK region, Sept. 18 ??“ Austria??™s company BioDiesel Vienna is to invest EUR50 million by 2008 into the construction of a plant in Ivano-Frankivsk region to produce biodiesel from rapeseeds.

KIEV, Sept. 18 ??“ Ukraine could help Russia cut its deficit of electricity by increasing the production capacity of Ukrainian electricity plants, according to Deputy Fuel and Energy Minister Oleksiy Sheberstov.

KIEV, Sept. 15 ??“ Cilija, which runs Lithuania's largest public catering chain, opened its first Cili-Pica pizzeria in Kiev this week, a company representative said.

KIEV, Sept. 19 - Russian oil major TNK-BP, the largest gasoline retailer in Ukraine, plans to invest $120 million by the end of this year to further boost its gas station chain, the company reported Tuesday.

KIEV, Sept. 19 ??“ ChornomorNaftoGaz, the state natural gas and oil company, extracting gas and oil in the Black Sea, denied recent allegations the government had favored undisclosed foreign companies in offshore oil extraction projects.

KIEV, Sept. 19 - AvtoKrAZ, Ukraine's only truck producer, boosted production of vehicles by 85.4% (1,064 trucks) in January through August against the same period last year, to 2,310 trucks, the company said.

KYIV, Aug 19 – Ukrhydroenergo is preparing to use EUR 200 million, the receipt of which is expected under a loan agreement between the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Italian government, the company reported following a meeting between its CEO Ihor Syrota and Italian Ambassador to Ukraine Carlo Formosa.