LONDON, April 29 - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development will "backload" its spending in Ukraine this year, its president said on Wednesday, and probably would not resume lending to Russia any time soon, Reuters reported.

KIEV, April 28 – The Roshen Corporation has opened a new dairy and canning plant in Vinnytsia.

Company owner and Ukrainian presidential candidate Petro Poroshenko said during the opening ceremony on April 25 that the plant will produce butter and powder milk for the needs of confectionary industry.

KIEV, April 29 – Inspectors of the Russian Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor) at Gukovo checkpoint stopped wagons with chicken meat from Myronivska Poultry Farm, part of Myronivsky Hliboproduct agroindustrial group (MHP), which were sent from Ukraine to Uzbekistan.

WASHINGTON, April 29 – The Canadian authorities on Monday decided to impose new economic sanctions on nine additional Russian individuals and two Russian banks, according to a posting on the Web site of Canada's CTV News.

KIEV, April 26 – The interagency commission for international trade will not conduct an investigation into imports of fuel from Belarus to Ukraine, a source on the market reported.

MOSCOW, April 26 – Russia's Foundation for Advanced Studies is planning to implement the Air Launch project in the 2020s – the launch of an orbital spaceplane from a super-heavy transport aircraft, according to a report of the public council of the Russian government's military-industrial commission, which was released at a meeting of the council in the State Duma on April 23.

KIEV, April 29 – The Regional Development, Construction, Housing and Utilities Economy Ministry hopes to raise EUR 1.5 billion from international banks which will be sent to upgrade the housing and utilities sectors.

KIEV, April 29 – The primary trade union organization of ArcelorMittal Kryviy Rih (Dnipropetrovsk region) will hold a rally on May 1 against the redundancy policy conducted by the company's administration.

KIEV, April 29 - The establishment of a free-trade area between Ukraine and the European Union will bar Ukraine from joining the Belarusian-Kazakh-Russian Customs Union forever, says Russian presidential advisor Sergei Glazyev.

KIEV, April 29 - Russia seeks to create a bilateral joint venture with Ukraine to operate its massive natural gas transportation system without participation of European entities, the Russian ambassador said Monday.