KIEV, Jan. 16 – Three companies have submitted documents to participate in a tender to receive licenses for the provision of UMTS (3G) communications services, the National Commission for Communications Regulation (NCCR) said on its website on Friday.

MOSCOW, Jan. 17 - Togliattiazot is still not able to transport ammonia through the Togliatti-Odessa ammonia pipeline and has received no information on any resumption in transportation from the Ukrainian side, the company said in a statement.

KHMELNYTSKY, Jan. 17 - Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said he is convinced of the quality of Ukrainian cheese and believes that if Russia limits the access of Ukrainian cheese to its market, first and foremost, Russians will suffer from this decision.

KIEV, Jan. 17 – Devaluation expectations of Ukrainian business circles grew in the fourth quarter of 2011, according to a poll by the National Bank of Ukraine.

KIEV, Jan. 18 – Repairs of a breakdown at the Bortnychi aeration plant in Kiev, where a part of the left-bank sewer collapsed, will take about two months and cost UAH 4 million, Kyivvodokanal Chairman Valeriy Chenchevy said.

KIEV, Jan. 18 – Ukraine has postponed the switch to Euro 4 and Euro 5 standards for gasoline and diesel fuel until July, the Economic Development and Trade Ministry reported.

KIEV, Jan. 17 - TNK-BP plans to obtain special permits to develop Ukrainian shale gas fields and start test drilling in the first quarter of 2011, TNK-BP CEO in Ukraine Felix Lunev has said in an interview with the Ekonomicheskie Izvestia newspaper.

KIEV, Jan. 17 - The first shipment of BTR-4 armored personnel carriers built in Kharkiv under a contract signed in 2009 to supply over $550 million worth of Ukrainian armaments and hardware to Iraq will be delivered to the client in February, an informed source told Interfax.

KIEV, Jan. 17 – Ukrtransnafta and Belarusian Oil Company have signed an agreement on the guaranteed annual transit of four million tons of oil through the Odessa-Brody oil pipeline to Mozyr oil refinery (Belarus) for two years, with the possibility of prolongation.

KIEV, Jan. 17 - The number of officially registered unemployed in Ukraine in late December 2010 totaled 2% of the able-bodied population, the State Statistics Committee reported.