KIEV, July 15 – The National Bank of Ukraine has canceled a requirement according to which it had the right to restrict banks in their operations on the interbank currency market or disconnect them from the transactions confirmation system on the interbank currency market, the Independent Association of Banks of Ukraine reported.

KIEV, July 16 – The United States was the No. 1 importer of Ukrainian small arms in 2012, as in 2011, the State Service on Export Control reported.

KIEV, July 16 – The protection of intellectual property rights and combating piracy in Ukraine is of current importance and of a systemic character, although solving the problem will require a lot of time and money, Andriy Honcharuk, an advisor to the Ukrainian president and head of the chief department for foreign affairs at the presidential administration.

KIEV, July 17 - The Ukrainian government will soon consider a bill on additional payments during the purchase by Ukrainian citizens of domestic cars, Deputy Prime Minister Yuriy Boyko said.

KIEV, July 17 – Ukraine and Russia are preparing to create a joint venture for the construction of an upgraded version of the An-124-100 Ruslan heavy transport aircraft, Deputy Prime Minister Yuriy Boyko said.

KIEV, July 17 - Ukraine will dramatically reduce the financial gap at the state-owned energy company Naftogaz Ukrayiny in 2013, Energy and Fuel Minister Eduard Stavytskiy said Wednesday, citing a government resolution.

KIEV, July 16 – Ukraine's national grid boosted electricity generation by 3.5% year-on-year in H1, to 100.136 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh), an Energy and Coal Industry Ministry source told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, July 16 – The Defense Ministry will soon carry out sea trials of the Zaporizhia submarine.

"The putting to sea of the Zaporizhia submarine is a significant event, as a whole generation of the Naval Forces, the submarine force, is being revived. In the near future, this submarine is to submerge and sea trials will be held underwater," the first deputy chief of the general staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Vice Admiral Ihor Kabanenko, said at a press conference in Kiev on Monday.

KIEV, July 17 – No trade centers were commissioned in Kiev in the first half of 2012, while seven trade centers with a rent area of 230,834 square meters are to open in the capital in H2, according to the Ukrainian Trade Guild.

KIEV, July 17 – Industrial production in Ukraine fell by 1.4% in June versus June 2011, bringing the industrial production growth in six month of 2012 to 0.4% from 0.7% in January-May 2012, the State Statistics Service reported on Tuesday.