KIEV, June 26 - Anna Derevyanko, executive director of the European Business Association, criticized Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk for the absence of systems and deep reforms in Ukraine in a meeting with Yatseniuk and Ukrainian Cabinet officials.

KIEV, June 26 - The total sum of wage arrears in Ukraine 2015 grew 21.1% in May, the State Statistics Service reported.

According to the service, wage arrears on June 1, 2015 amounted to UAH 1.811 billion, or 5.4% of the monthly wage fund for May.

KIEV, June 26 – The Economic Development and Trade Ministry has sent an official letter to the top managers of the PayPal international payment system with an invitation to enter the Ukrainian market, the ministry said on its website.

KIEV, June 25 - Ukraine's gross foreign debt would narrow to 66% of gross domestic product in 2016 from 84.1% as of early April 2011 if the economy develops under a basic scenario, according to Serhiy Nikolaichuk the head of the department for methods, analysis and forecast of the balance of payment of the balance of payment department at the National Bank of Ukraine.

KIEV, June 25 – Ukraine's State Tax Service and ArcelorMittal Kryviy Rih have signed a memorandum on participation in an experiment in the introduction of "horizontal monitoring" under which the company is to withdraw its claim against the tax authorities for UAH 900 million.

KIEV, June 25 – Ukraine's government has proposed to shorten the list of the companies that cannot be privatized, and tabled a corresponding bill (No. 8723) in Parliament.

KIEV, June 29 – Lawmakers have proposed to permit corporatization of Zaporizhia titanium and magnesium combine, Titan state-run joint-stock company (Armiansk, Crimea), Irshansk ore mining and processing enterprise (Zhytomyr region) and Vilnohirsk mining and smelting mill (Dnipropetrovsk region), although retain them on a list of companies that are not subject to privatization.

MOSCOW, June 29 - Ukraine's current efforts to incorporate European gas laws into its national legislation could bar it from integration with Russia, said Valery Yazev, State Duma deputy speaker and president of the Russian Gas Society.

KIEV, June 25 – Ukraine should let the hryvnia rise if low inflation continues, according to Valeriy Lytvytsky, the head of the group of advisors to the governor of the National Bank of Ukraine.

KIEV, June 25 – The United States may renew shared financing under a program for the disposal of solid fuel of RS-22 (SS-24 according to NATO classification) intercontinental ballistic missiles at Pavlohrad chemical plant in Dnipropetrovsk region.