KIEV, Jan. 19 – Agrarian Policy and Food Minister Mykola Prysiazhniuk said that Russia does not have serious claims against the quality of Ukrainian cheese supplied to the country.

KIEV, Jan. 19 - IHS CERA consulting company (Cambridge Energy Research Associates) has recommended Ukraine to retain a majority stake in ownership during the creation of a gas transport consortium so to strengthen a role of the Ukrainian gas transport system.

KIEV, Jan. 19 - Ukraine’s biggest producer of steel pipes, Interpipe, is testing its recently completed Dniprostal, the country’s first state-of-the-art steel mill that uses electric power, not natural gas, for making steel.

KIEV, Jan. 17 - Fitch Ratings has affirmed NJSC Naftogaz Ukrayiny's (Naftogaz) Long-term foreign and local currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) at 'CCC', respectively. Naftogaz's $1.595 billion government-guaranteed notes are affirmed at 'B' with a Recovery Rating of 'RR4'.

KIEV, Jan. 18 – About one million entrepreneurs have chosen the single tax system for 2011, the State Tax Service reported.

"We have received about one million applications from private businessmen on transferring to the system of simplified taxation and reports for 2011," reads a report by the service.

MOSCOW, Jan. 18 - The Finance Ministries of Russia and Ukraine in the next two months will prepare an agreement to fulfill the agreement signed by Russia and Ukraine in April 2010 on the extension of the presence of the Black Sea Fleet in Ukraine, Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said after meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart Fedir Yaroshenko.

KIEV, Jan. 19 – The Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Fund, the supervisory council of which is headed by Kateryna Yushchenko, the wife of the Ukrainian president, and the Children's Hospital of the Future Charitable Fund have reminded the buyers of the Industrial Union of Donbas Corporation (Donetsk) about the additional obligations of the corporation.

KIEV, Jan. 18 – The Industrial Union of Donbass (Donetsk) is in talks with 40 banks on restructuring its debts, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Director for Ukraine Andre Kuusvek reported.

KIEV, Jan. 18 – Zaporizhia’s Motor Sich has signed a $110 million contract with the Indian Air Force to modernize AI-20 engines for Antonov An-32 military cargo aircraft, a company source told Interfax.

KIEV, Jan. 18 – Inflation expectations in Ukrainian business circles fell considerably in the fourth quarter of 2009, according to a National Bank of Ukraine poll.

"In Q4 2009, the macroeconomic expectations regarding companies' own development prospects greatly improved, but assessments did not reach the pre-crisis level... In the next 12 months the growth in consumer prices is forecasted at 15.1%, against 17.5% in the previous quarter," reads the report.