KIEV, May 28 - Energy generating company Donbasenergo (Donetsk) has estimated the construction of two power units with an installed electric capacity of 330 MW each at Sloviansk thermal power plant (TPP) will cost UAH 9 billion, the director for investment projects and capital construction, Ihor Smirnov, has told reporters in Kiev.

KIEV, May 29 – SCM, the largest holding company in Ukraine, announced plans to increase its share in the largest private transport-shipping company Lemtrans LLC (both based in Donetsk) from 19.95% to a controlling one.

KIEV, May 27 –Ukraine and Brazil are setting the schedule for building the Cyclone-4 (Tsyklon-4) international space rocket at Brazil's Alcantara space center and will intensify work on the project, a source close to the project said.

KIEV, May 27 - Kiev has lost the right to appoint one of the directors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, confirms Andriy Honcharuk, presidential advisor and head of the presidential administration’s main department on international relations.

KIEV, May 27 – Ukraine and Russia will discuss the revision of gas contracts at a meeting of the commission for economic cooperation in Moscow on June 7, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said.

KIEV, May 26 - CME Group (Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group), the world's leading derivatives market, plans to assist Ukraine in creating a futures market, first of all for grain trading, and signed relevant memoranda of mutual understanding with the Cabinet of Ministers and the Ukrainian Futures Exchange in Kiev on Thursday.

KIEV, May 27 – The European Investment Bank has provided EUR 450 million in financing to the State Road Service of Ukraine (Ukravtodor) to reconstruct the approach roads to Kiev.

KIEV, May 28 – Ukraine’s commercial real estate rent prices may fall in 2009 and 2010 when most declared projects in the sector are commissioned, Valeriy Kyrylko, the managing partner of Concorde Capital, said.

KIEV, May 29 – The growth in the price of beer in Ukraine over 2008 may be from 20% to 35% due to rising prices for raw materials and energy resources, experts say.

KIEV, May 29 – The Fuel and Energy Ministry started the liquidation of the Ukratomprom, the nuclear power and uranium producer, which had been created in 2007 to merge the country’s nuclear power and uranium producers.