KIEV, Feb. 18 – The Federation of Employers of Ukraine is demanding that the National Bank of Ukraine cancel the administrative extension of a term for buying foreign currency, as the step is leading to the worsening of negative trends in the economy, according to a posting on the federation's Web site.

KIEV, Feb. 15 - The National Commission for Energy Regulation will issue a license for electricity generation to Solarenergo LLC, which built a solar power plant of 9.806 MW in Skadovsk district in Kherson region.

KIEV, Feb. 15 – The Antimonopoly Committee has permitted GDF Media Limited (Cyprus), which belongs to Dmytro Firtash, to gain control over the Inter Media Group Limited.

KIEV, Feb. 15 – Experts from the Research and Development Institute of Building Structures and Kiev Research and Design Institute Energoproekt have been invited for thorough technical examination of the wrecked turbine room at the Generating Unit No. 4 of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and designing a covering for the turbine room.

KIEV, Feb. 15 – There is no threat of structural collapse at the Zaporizhia, Yuzhnoukrainsk, Rivne and Khmelnytsky nuclear power plants, according to EnergoAtom.

KIEV, Feb. 18 – Ukraine has started a special investigation into imports of ferroalloys to the country irrespective of their origin, reads a report of the interagency commission for foreign trade published in the Uriadovy Kurier newspaper.

KIEV, Feb. 16 - Interpipe Limited, the owner of Ukrainian pipe maker Interpipe from Dnipropetrovsk, plans to call a meeting of the holders of $200 million in notes maturing on August 2, 2010 in a bid to win more time before the bonds go into default, the company said in a statement published by the Luxembourg Stock Exchange on Tuesday.

KIEV, Feb. 17 – The Transport and Communications Ministry has proposed to increase the coefficients applied to the tariffs on cargo shipments by rail each quarter.

KIEV, Feb. 17 – Ukraine reduced exports of non-processed (premium) aluminum by 45.5% in terms of volume, to 66,315 tons, and by 66.8% in money terms, to $106.305 million, in 2009, year-over-year, according to the State Statistics Committee.

KIEV, Feb. 18 – The value of Nemiroff, a large Ukrainian alcohol producer, if it is bought by Central European Distribution Corporation (CEDC), which last week announced its readiness to hold talks on the deal, could be up to $370 million, experts polled by Interfax-Ukraine have said.