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.

KIEV, May 29 – Ukrainian banks have either suspended granting mortgage credits or significantly increased interest rates on housing purchase credits, according to Prostobank Consulting company.

KIEV, May 29 – Dragon Capital, a leading Kiev investment company, plans to offer a platform selling stocks via the Internet, Tomas Fiala, the managing director of the company, said.

"This year we are planning to start Internet trading ourselves, without an exchange," Fiala told Interfax-Ukraine.