BRUSSELS, Nov. 18 – Ukraine welcomes Russia's intention to participate in the modernization of the Ukrainian gas transit system, Deputy Prime Minister Hryhoriy Nemyria said in Brussels on Wednesday.

KIEV, Nov. 18 –The number of Ukrainians who believe now is not the time to buy large household items almost doubled year-over-year, and the number of those who believe that October was not a good period for saving funds has also grown, according to a survey by the International Center of Policy Studies (ICPS) and GfK Ukraine.

KIEV, Nov. 18 –The commissioning of new buildings in 2010 in Ukraine may fall to a minimum if anti-crisis measures in the construction sector are not adopted today, according to the director general of Vinnytsia-based Podillia Concern, Tymofiy Hyrenko.

KIEV, Nov. 17 – The European Union is trying to expand the European Energy Community into Ukraine, Moldova and Turkey, in order to introduce the European Union energy trading rules in the countries, Helga Schmidt, head of the Political Desk of the General Secretariat of the European Union Council, wrote to participants of the Black Sea and Caspian region and second European Energy Security forum.

ELEKTROSTAL, Nov. 17 - The Russian atomic corporation TVEL is ready to cooperate with Ukraine in the establishment of an alternative supplier of fuel to nuclear power plants running Russian made water-cooled water-moderated VVER units, TVEL head Yuri Olenin told the media.

ZAPORIZHIA, Nov. 18 – Zaporizhiaoblenergo, the energy supply company, will have to trim the implementation of its investment program due to the crisis in the metals sector, its director general, Viktor Nosulko, said on Monday.

KIEV, Nov. 18 – The economic crisis has badly damaged the consumer confidence of Ukrainians, cutting it to the level of 2000, according to the International Center of Policy Studies (ICPS).

"The economic crisis has badly affected consumer confidence of Ukrainians.

MINSK, Nov. 15 - Ukraine and the European Union are discussing possible supplies of Ukrainian electricity via Belarus, said Ukrainian Ambassador to Belarus Ihor Likhovy.

KIEV, Nov. 16 - Ukraine could receive between $1.2 billion to $1.5 billion from bank sales in 2008, the vice president and senior analyst at Moody's international rating agency, Yaroslav Sovgira, said in an interview with the newspaper Economic News.

KYIV, Oct 17 – The Latvian port Rigas Universalais Terminals (RUT) received and unloaded the first test train with 1,423 tons of Ukrainian rapeseed, which were loaded into 54 containers, the Latvian publication ldz.lv reported.