KIEV, May 28 – Some 1.661 million foreign travelers will visit Kiev in 2013, MasterCard said.

"Kiev is 64th in the Global Destination Cities Index, and among European cities it is 21st. According to researchers, 11,660,562 foreign travelers will visit the capital of Ukraine in 2013. Some $1,686 will be spent during one visit on average," MasterCard said, referring to the results of its third annual study.

KIEV, May 28 - About 60% of Ukrainians believe that the Ukrainian gas transport system should remain in state ownership, according to a survey conducted by the Razumkov Center.

DONETSK, May 29 – The Vuhlehirska thermal power plant (Svitlodarsk, Donetsk region), which was damaged by a fire on March 29, could resume its operation in November-December, Donetsk Regional Administration Chairman Andriy Shyshatsky has said.

KIEV, May 29 – The fact that Western European banks are leaving Ukraine is linked to the absence of improvements in the business climate and prospects for the development of the country's economy, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services says.

KIEV, May 29 – Ukraine’s Antimonopoly Committee has ordered eight large fuel market players in the country to reduce prices of A-95 gasoline in the short term.

The committee said that the recommendation to reduce prices of gasoline to the level that would have been if there were competition on the market were sent to Lukoil Ukraine, public joint-stock company Galnaftogaz Concern, private enterprise Okko naftoproduct, Kontinium-Galychyna Trade House LLC, Kontinent Nafto Trade LLC, UTN Vostok LLC, Alliance Holding LLC and Kersher JV LLC.

MOSCOW, May 29 – International Uranium Enrichment Center (IUEC) and the Ukrainian state concern Nuclear Fuel have signed an agreement foreseeing the integration of the center into making supplies of fuel to Ukrainian nuclear power plants by TVEL, the center's director, Aleksey Lebedev, told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, May 28 - Chinese car maker Great Wall Motor says it may sign a contract for the assembly of its cars in Ukraine if import duties are introduced.

KIEV, May 28 – More than half of Ukrainians believe that relations between Ukraine and the European Union and between Ukraine and Russia are unstable, according to a study conducted by the Razumkov Center.

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.