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.

KIEV, May 29 – Eurasia Investment and Industrial group of Kazakhstan will build an elite apartment block at Olshanska Street in Kiev’s downtown district, the company announced in a press release.

KIEV, May 29 - China's Geely Group will soon decide whether it makes sense for the company to continue to assemble cars in Ukraine following the introduction of a 10% import duty on cars in Ukraine.