KIEV, Aug. 14 – The price of gas to be imported by Ukraine in the fourth quarter will not drastically differ from the one registered in the third quarter, Bohdan Sokolovsky, the Ukrainian president's commissioner for international energy security, told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Aug. 14 – The Ukrainian cabinet has approved the allocation of UAH 5.954 billion for the free registration and issue of state acts on property rights to land to citizens in 2009.

This is stipulated in cabinet resolution No. 844 of August 5, 2009 on some issues of the realization of the property rights to land by Ukrainian citizens.

KIEV, Aug. 17 – Ukraine's Industry and Economy ministries are considering the cancellation of preferences given to two companies of Industrial Union of Donbas Corporation (IUD), a company of Metinvest Group's Azovstal and a company of Arcelor Mittal Kryviy Rih (Dnipropetrovsk region) for the non-submission of information on prices of steel products sold on the domestic and foreign markets.

KIEV, Aug. 15 –The average rental rate in shopping centers in Kiev may rise by 10-15% in 2009, the Ukrainian Trade Guild (UTG, Kiev) has said.

The average rental rate in operating shopping centers in Kiev grew by 6% over January-June 2008 compared to the end of 2007, up to $145-150 per square meter a month.

KIEV, Aug. 14 – Developing company DEPOT Development Group, part of the Foxtrot group of companies, plans to invest about $200 million in the development of DEPOt shopping and entertainment centers across Ukraine by 2010, DEPOT Development Group Commercial Director Dmytro Potapnev has told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Aug. 14 – High realty prices on the primary market and the absence of demand could provoke a crisis in the construction industry, First Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Turchynov said.

KIEV, Aug. 14 – The State Property Fund, Lukor and Lukoil-Neftekhim are to sign an amicable agreement in October to settle problematic issues around chemical producer Oriana.

KIEV, Aug. 15 - Grain stocks at Ukrainian agricultural enterprises and companies that handle storage and processing (except small enterprises) stood at 19.3 million tons on Aug. 1, 42% more than the same date last year, the State Statistics Committee said in a statement.

KIEV, Aug. 15 – No flooded settlement or home has been left in Ukraine's flood-hit western regions, the Emergencies Ministry's press service reported.

KIEV, Aug. 15 – Ukraine by Aug. 14 had harvested 40.487 million tons of early grain and leguminous crops, which was 78.6% up on the same date last year, from 11.7 million hectares or 94% of the area under cultivation.